Photo credit: Mike Lovett EVENT CO-SPONSORED BY: A hybrid event (in-person and virtual) by Letty Cottin Pogrebin In-person event to be held at : 16415 N 90th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 ABOUT THE EVENT: Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz in conversation with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, writer, activist, and co-founding editor of Ms.magazine, about her new book, SHANDA: […]
ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: From 2009 to 2017, Sarah Hurwitz served as a White House speechwriter, first for President Barack Obama and then as the chief speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. Hurwitz worked with Mrs. Obama to craft a number of widely-acclaimed addresses, including her 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Convention speeches and her political speeches during the 2016 campaign cycle. Hurwitz is a graduate of Harvard […]
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Is it as bad as we’ve been led to believe? How has the increasing support for the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment initiative effected campus climate and attitudes toward Israel? Is there evidence of greater hostility towards Jews and reports of instances of discrimination? Are the responses and interventions of the Jewish Community […]
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Purim is a story about the shift from living with a hidden identity to coming out as truly oneself. What might it teach us about the role of clothing, either concealing or expressing gender identity? This text based discussion will frame the Biblical prohibition of wearing mis-gendered clothing as supporting the transgender […]
**DUE TO PERSONAL ISSUES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED** ABOUT THIS LECTURE: "The family that prays together," the famous adage goes, "stays together." Indeed, many people of faith take for granted that religious observance strengthens spousal, parental, and inter-generational relationships. But to pre-modern Jewish theologians, it was far from obvious that the family was […]
REGISTRATION CLOSED, WALK UPS WELCOME: ABOUT THIS LECTURE: In performances of Jewishness on TV, white Jewish characters regularly draw black characters or tropes about blackness into the frame at those moments when they seek to challenge their status as white people. Many scholars have written about how Jews historically engaged with blackface minstrelsy and related […]
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Saul Austerlitz is a freelance writer whose work has been published in theNew York Times, New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Slate, and The New Republic, among others. He is an adjunct professor of writing and comedy history at New York University, as well as the author of Money for Nothing: A History of […]
About This Panel Event: The relationship between American Jews and Israel is not like it once was. Tensions between identity and solidarity, peace and politics, and technology and tradition have driven wedges into what was once thought to be an unshakeable relationship. But is all lost? In this lively panel, the panelists will discuss the current […]
