MARK YOUR CALENDARS

 

  Fri., Feb. 29 - Bet A & B Family Service

  Sun., March 2 - Basketfest

  Fri., March 7 -  7:00 PM: Tot Shabbat (Special time)

                           8:00 PM: Celebration Service with Choir, and Klezmer.

  Sat., March 8 - Hai Class Service

  Sun., March 9 – 7:00 PM Congregation Meeting

 

University of Delaware Jewish Studies Speakers Series Spring 2008

Talks are free and open to the public.

All talks will be held on Tuesdays on campus in

room 220 of the Smith building

from 12:30-1:45 p.m., except as noted.

Please verify all talks at the Center’s website:  http://www.udel.edu/jsp/news.html

This series is sponsored by the Frank and Yetta Chaiken Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware. 

 

* The speakers on these dates are candidates for the Schusterman Teaching Fellowship in Jewish Studies.

 

Date

Speaker and Topic

Feb. 26*

Michael Cohen.  Brandeis University.

How Solomon Schechter's Students Created Conservative Judaism

March 4*

Jordan Rosenblum.  Brown University

Topic:  Jewish Identity and Food

March 11*

Michael Cohen.  Brandeis University.

How Solomon Schechter's Students Created Conservative Judaism

March 18*

Matthew Lagrone.  University of Toronto

The Creation of Conservative Judaism: the Kohut-Kohler dispute

March 25

Elliot Ratzman, Swarthmore College

From Socialism to Peter Singer: Messianic Politics and Radical Jewish Social Ethics.

April 8

Muqtedar Khan, David Silver. University of Delaware

Topic:  Islam and Judaism

April 15

Asaf Romirowsky.  King’s College London

Topic:  The relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority

April 22

 

Rebecca Davis. University of Delaware

Family First: How American Jews Put Marriage in Its Place, 1935-1980

Wednesday, April 30.

Laura Levitt.  Temple University.

American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust

The talk will be held from 12:20 - 1:10 in Gore 116.

Co-sponsored with the Race, Ethnicity, and Culture lecture series. 

May 6

Monika Shafi.  University of Delaware

Topic:  A biographical portrait of the German-Jewish poet Gertrud Kolmar

This talk will begin at 12:45 p.m

May 13

Julie Nemeth.  University of Delaware.

Jewish Women's Psychological Well-Being: Attachment, Separation, and Jewish Identity