Hilary Falb Kalisman

Hilary Falb Kalisman interviewed on teaching the history of Israel-Palestine

Sept. 19, 2024

Prof. Hilary Falb Kalisman appeared on the Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone podcast. In her interview, “You are Welcome Here,” Falb Kalisman discusses teaching the history of Israel-Palestine. Listent to the iinterview at: https://www.juliecarrpoet.com/return-the-key/episode-8

Eyal Rivlin

Eyal Rivlin promoted to Teaching Professor and more news

Aug. 26, 2024

In August 2024, Eyal Rivlin was promoted to Teaching Professor. In the summer of 2024, The Nonbinary Hebrew Project, cofounded by Lior Gross and Eyal Rivlin, was selected as a grant recipient of the Rise Up Initiative - Nurturing the Soul of Jewish Justice. As the their mission states, “Rise...

Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos' book is being translated

Aug. 26, 2024

Professor Brian Catlos' book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (NYC: Basic, 2018) is being translated into Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and simplified Chinese in 2024.

Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta interviewed by NPR on Rabbis in Interfaith marriages

Aug. 19, 2024

Professor Samira K. Mehta was recently interviewed by NPR to discuss how, for the first time, the largest branch in American Judaism has agreed to ordain rabbis who are in interfaith marriages. Listen to the interview and read the transcript here.

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes piece in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

July 25, 2024

Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently published a piece in a special issue of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Abstract By late 1941, some 1,300 Jews had escaped from National Socialist-controlled Europe to the Philippines. This essay problematizes the existing historiography on this rescue by going beyond examinations of its...

Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos receives a Guggenheim fellowship

July 8, 2024

Professor Brian Catlos received a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on his project An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, a culmination of his scholarship to date showing when, how and why members of these three faith communities—which hail from Africa, the Middle East...

Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta publishes piece on interfaith Jewish relationships

June 25, 2024

Professor Mehta's latest piece in The Forward talks about how a major Jewish denomination’s main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships. "The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith; these couples are raising interfaith families. But despite that, few rabbis have personal experience in interfaith nuclear families,...

Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta publishes a piece on the diversity of American Jews

June 13, 2024

Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world—and represented in the U.S. The diversity of American Jews is a major focus Mehta's research, both through her current project, Jews of Color: Histories and Futures...

Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta interviewed by Interfaith Voices Radio

May 15, 2024

Professor Samira K. Mehta discusses how words like “sacred,” “ensoulment,” “mother,” and “baby” have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy. Listen to the podcast here.

Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta publishes an article in the Conversation on Asian Jewish Americans

May 15, 2024

"May is both Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month. Two entirely separate commemorations for two entirely separate communities, right? Think again. Not only do Asian American Jews exist, but we come from a variety of places and come to Judaism in a...

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