Virtual Mini-Courses
on Jewish Life
Broaden your
knowledge with the expertise of Rutgers' distinguished faculty and visiting
scholars. Free and open to the public!
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Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File
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Session
I:
Between
American and Israeli Orthodoxy
Adam
S. Ferziger,
Allen
and Joan Bildner Visiting
Scholar, Rutgers
Rabbi
S.R. Hirsch Chair for Research on the Torah and Derekh
Erez Movement, Bar-Ilan
University
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Session
II:
The
New Rabbis? How Women are Remaking Orthodox Leadership
Michal
Raucher,
Assistant
Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
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Jonathan
Dekel-Chen,
Allen
and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar, Rutgers
Rabbi
Edward Sandrow Chair in Soviet & East European Jewry, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
A
two-part course on the Jewish farming movement that spanned the
Americas, Eastern Europe, and the land of Israel from the 1880s to
the 1950s, as well as recent developments in the U.S. and Israel.
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Virtual
Talk Reminder:
The
Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family
February
1, 7:30 p.m.
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Award-winning
historian Laura Arnold Leibman shares the remarkable story of
an early American family of mixed Jewish and African descent.
Leibman, a professor of English and humanities at Reed College, has
unraveled the mystery of their journey from Christian, impoverished,
and enslaved in Barbados, to free, wealthy, Jewish, and—at
times—white, in New York.
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