The annual Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lecture will be given by Professor Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G.The Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies was on of the many co-sponsors of the evening. Dungan Memorial Lecture, the Department of Religious Studies invited Professor Levine to speak on the parables of Jesus. Amy Jill Levine of Vanderbilt University is a popular and candid speaker on the Jewish aspects of Christianity.Professor Anna Shternshis of the University of Toronto, and author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 and the forthcoming When Sonia Met Boris: Jewish Daily Life in Soviet Russia will present "Machine Guns and Lonely Orphans: Yiddish Music in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust" her research on Yiddish Music in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.He was a consultant for the Dreamworks film “The Prince of Egypt,” for Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers, for NBC “The Eternal Light,” for A&E “Mysteries of the Bible,” and for A&E “Who Wrote the Bible?,” for PBS “Nova: The People of the Covenant: The Origins of Ancient Israel and the Emergence of Judaism,” for European television's ARTE “The Bible Revealed,” and for PBS “The Kingdom of David.” News & World Report, Time, Newsweek, and other print media. He has been interviewed by CNN’s Larry King and on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition” and “Radio Times” and “Talk of the Nation.” Articles and citations of his work have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Friedman is best known for his book Who Wrote the Bible (1987), but has also written The Exile and Biblical Narrative, The Disappearance of God, The Hidden Face of God, the Hidden Book of the Bible, Commentary on the Torah, The Bible with Sources Revealed, The Bible Now, and most recently, The Exodus. Professor Richard Elliot Friedman, the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion presented on his latest scholarship on the Book of Exodus.Areas of interest include history of religion in the U.S., Modern Judaism, religion and food. She has a bachelor of arts degree from Stony Brook University and both a masters of arts and doctoral degree on from Duke University. Adrienne Krone is an assistant professor of Religious Studies and Director of Adrienne Krone of Allegheny College spoke on "Sustainability and Spirituality in the Jewish Community Farming Movement".She holds a BA from Brown University in Religious Studies, a MSEd in Religious Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from NYU in Education and Jewish Studies. Her work has been recognized with awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Network for Research in Jewish Education. She has conducted applied studies on behalf of American Jewish educational enterprises, with a focus on young adults and teens. Her manuscript, Raising Jewish Spirits: American Jews, Religious Emotion, and American Spirituality, is under advance contract with Rutgers University Press. Her research focuses on contemporary American Jewish education. Arielle Levites is the managing director of CASJE (Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education). Arielle Agababa Levites from George Washington University spoke on "Preserving Jewish Culture: Growing Spirituality in a Contemporary Jewish Agricultural Program" Dr. ![]() She has held faculty fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Power, Ethics, and Ecology: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She directs an initiative on Disability and Climate Change, which brings together disability activists, artists, policy makers, and academics to address how disability communities are disproportionately affected by environmental risk and climate disruption. Julia Watts Belser's research centers on gender, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic literature, as well as queer feminist Jewish ethics. Julia Watts Belser of Georgetown University spoke on "The Politics of Risk and Resistance: Thinking Gender, Disability, and State Violence through Ancient Jewish Story" which examined the uses the talmudic text to grapple with contemporary questions surrounding power and risk.Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lecture on Judaic Studies Monday, October 4, 2021
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