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The fourth annual Alvin H. Baum Jr. Memorial Lecture in honor of an LGBTQIA+ Jewish social justice activist was delivered by Rabbi Sydney Mintz. She gave a lecture titled “What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: Rabbinic Tales of Resistance… Continue Reading
What is Sukkot? Sukkot is an autumn harvest Festival beginning on the fifteenth day of the month of Tishrei. The Torah instructs, “For seven days you shall dwell in tents, so that your descendants shall know that I made the… Continue Reading
Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 2022 | 6:30-8:00pm | Fromm Hall Parts bedtime story, poem, and journal, and coupled with highly evocative illustrations, Malkah’s Notebook (2022) is a graphic novel about and love letter to the Hebrew alphabet. The profound illustrated book… Continue Reading
Thursday, Oct. 13th, 2022 | 6:30-8pm | Lone Mountain, Outdoor Sukkah Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, a queer Latinx Jewish artist, was raised in Los Angeles, California by a family of single women, and grew up traveling and living across the western United… Continue Reading
Monday, Oct. 10th, 2022 | 6:30-8pm | Lone Mountain, Outdoor Sukkah In his award-winning book, The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America (2019), scholar David S. Koffman investigates the history of relations between American Jews and American Indians,… Continue Reading
Tuesday, Oct.12th, 2022 | 4:30-6pm | Lone Mountain, Outdoor Sukkah In Texting with Angels you’ll meet – a witch in the suburbs, a Jewish vampire, a magic dog, and find out what happened to Marx, Freud, and Einstein after they… Continue Reading
Tuesday, Sept. 13th | 6:30-8pm | Fromm Hall The seventh annual Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice Human Rights lecture was delivered by Dr. Chai Feldblum, a renowned civil rights advocate and scholar who specializes in issues regarding… Continue Reading
Sunday, Mar. 27 | 5–6 p.m. | Kalmanovitz Hall The newly established annual Alvin H. Baum, Jr. Memorial Lecture highlights an outstanding LGBTQ+ Jewish social justice activist. This event preserves the legacy of Alvin H. Baum, Jr. (1930-2021), a monumental… Continue Reading
Sunday, Mar. 27 | 6:30–8 p.m. | Fromm Hall The newly established annual Alvin H. Baum, Jr. Memorial Lecture highlights an outstanding LGBTQ+ Jewish social justice activist. This event preserves the legacy of Alvin H. Baum, Jr. (1930-2021), a monumental… Continue Reading
Tuesday, Nov. 16 | 5:30–7 p.m. | Online How is oppression represented onscreen in Israel/Palestine? What can we learn from both cinema and everyday videos, filmed on cell phones and camcorders, about how power structures the visual field in the… Continue Reading
