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Journey Through Ketuvim
From Psalms to Chronicles, explore one of the three main parts of the Hebrew Bible with our email series. In ...
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Parshat Beshalach: The Power of Water
Water moves, cleans and dissolves. Learn about the role water plays in our lives as you discover famous water stories ...
This Book is On Fire: The Radical Linguistic Theology of the Rabbis
Rabbinic Judaism emerged like a phoenix out of the ashes of the destruction of the Great Temple in Jerusalem. The ...
Polish Jews on Vacation: Leisure and Identity in the Interwar Period
By the 1920s, the idea of a hiking or ski trip in the Tatra Mountains, taking the waters at fashionable ...
The Holocaust in the European Context
In this talk, Susanne Heim (CJH Short-Term Research Fellow) introduces The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany ...
The World as Liminal: Genesis and the Incompleteness of Creation
The story of creation in the first chapter of the Torah is one of the most familiar but least understood ...
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Book Talk
When getting to know professor Marc Dollinger, you will discover that he believes, “It’s a scholar’s obligation (and privilege) to ...
A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald
A Voice Among the Silent is the first film to shine a light on James Grover McDonald’s efforts to warn ...