News in Jewish Studies

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences at Appalachian State: a symposium for educators on film and photography during the Holocaust, and an academic conference including panels on Yizker books, Yiddish women writers and the Shoah, children’s Holocaust literature, and teaching Holocaust studies. As part of these...

As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder. We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan , the new Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in...

Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies’s new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism, Diaspora, and the Gay Jewish Embrace of Israel.”

Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one. Samira Mehta, CU expert on religion, gender and sexuality, shares on The Conversation. Read the June 13th article here . Samira Mehta and Lauren Maclvor Thompson discuss how the Supreme Court’s abortion decision is based on...

Director Elias Sacks' review of Randi Rashkover's book "Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem” has been published in Modern Theology . You can access the review here.

Beverly Weber has a new co-written article in the special issue of Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University . Read her article “ Decolonizing Time, Knowledge, and Disability on the Tenure Clock ” here.

Maggie Rosenau (they/she) has a new co-written article in the special issue of Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University . Read their article “ How to Deal with a Bully: Debility, Non-Production, and Radical Care ” here.

Samira Mehta recently published the article " Protestants and the pill: How US Christians helped make birth control mainstream ." Professor Mehta’s current project, God Bless the Pill? Sexuality, Contraception, and American Religion examines the role of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant voices in competing moral logics of contraception, population control,...

Samira Mehta was quoted in a new article about sustainability and faith-based food practices. You can read the article here: Faith-based foodies don’t stop at kosher or halal in search of sustainable eating

To the Program in Jewish Studies Community: I hope that this email finds you healthy and safe. As the 2021-2022 academic year comes to a close, I’m writing to share the news that, in January 2023, I'll be leaving the University of Colorado Boulder to become the Director of the...