2020-2021
Eco-Kashrut: Food, Jews, and Justice
Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph – A Conversation With David Shneer
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Jewish Messianic Heresy and the Right to Privacy: Louis Brandeis and the Sabbatian Origins of an American Legal Doctrine
Nan Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies and English
Monday, September 14, 2020
Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate
Rhona Seidelman Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
Thursday, October 22, 2020
"The End of the Tunnel is Dark": Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic Under Occupation
Weeam Hammoudeh Assistant Professor, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Peak to Peak Series
Exams in Extremis: Standardized Testing, Politics, and Crisis in the Middle East
Hilary Falb Kalisman, Assistant Professor of History and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Peak to Peak Series
Klezmer Music as Jewish Dialogue and Jewish Discourse
Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies
Monday, December 14, 2020
2021 Sondra and Howard Bender Scholar
Blacks and the Jewish Experience
Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Thursday, March 18, 2021
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2013-2014
Sondra D. Bender Visiting Scholar: Shaul Magid
Little Failure: Gary Shteyngart
Media Wars and the Invisible Holocaust: Natascha Drubek
Between Jewish Liturgy, Arab Music and Israeli Hebrew: Almog Behar
Embodied Judaism: The Sound of Ecstacy
2012-2013
Inauguration of the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Nathan Englander
The Eichmann Trial: Deborah Lipstadt
On the Wings of the Shekhinah: Rabbi Leah Novick
How the Ari Created a Myth and Transformed Judaism: Howard Schwartz
2011-2012
Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, Dr. Chava Weissler, and Rabbi Or Rose
When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone: Gal Beckerman
Augustine and the Jews: Paula Fredriksen
Yiddish Behind The Iron Curtain: Cantor Jalda Rebling
Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism: Jay Michaelson
2010-2011
Launch of the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection: Robert Atler
Speak Jewish?: Sarah Benor
Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism: Menachem Mor
Smashing the Idols: Rabbi Yisorel Wilhelm, Rabbi Victor Gross, Orly Halpern & Elissa Barrett
2009-2010
Radical Artists: Jewish Art in Diaspora: Carol Zemel
Untitled (L’Origine): Yael Kanerak
Obama, Sarah Silverman and Black-Jewish Relations: Daniel Itzkovitz
River Jordan: Myth of a Dividing Line: Rachel Havrelock
Paul Was Not a Christian: Pamela Eisenbaum
From Rebel to Rabbi: Matthew Hoffman
