Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta publishes a piece about new claim Columbus was Jewish

Nov. 4, 2024

Professor Mehta's latest piece about the new claim that Columbus was Jewish is published in Religion Dispatches . Click the hyperlink to read the article " New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With. "

Hilary Falb Kalisman

Hilary Falb Kalisman publishes a new article in "Gender and History"

Oct. 11, 2024

Hilary Falb Kalisman's new article, "Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq," has been published in Gender and History. ABSTRACT: During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary...

Samira Mehta

PBS picks up Samira K. Mehta's piece on the Netflix show "Nobody Wants This"

Oct. 9, 2024

Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read Samira K. Mehta's latest piece in The Conversation, which is also featured in PBS News. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/in-nobody-wants-this-century-old-rom-c...

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 Catlosreceives aGuggenheim 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,...

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