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Crafting Objects, Crafting Community: Gender and Material Culture in American Religion
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada
Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and identity in American Judaism and Catholicism.
Read MoreBeth Berkowitz – Frontiers in Jewish Studies: The Clever Ox, the Escaping Elephant, and Other Talmudic Animals
Full-length video of Beth Berkowitz's lecture, "Frontiers in Jewish Studies: The Clever Ox, the Escaping Elephant, and Other Talmudic Animals."
Read MoreFrontiers in Jewish Studies: The Clever Ox, the Escaping Elephant, and Other Talmudic Animals
Beth Berkowitz
Is Judaism good or bad for animals? Beth Berkowitz hopes to bring us beyond this reductive question, with its frequent focus on the first two chapters of Genesis and Jewish dietary laws, to offer instead a more complex approach to the animal in Judaism and to spotlight some less predictable Jewish texts. Professor Berkowitz, newly […]
Read MoreReligion and the Body
Dominic Wetzel
Contributors include Kaucyila Brooke, Ann Burlein, Lindsay Caplan, Janet R. Jakobsen, Ins Kromminga, Laura Levitt, Minoo Moallem, Carlo Quispe, Catherine Sameh, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Saadia Toor, Dominic Wetzel, Melissa Wilcox, Paul Wirhun, and David Wojnarowicz.
Read MoreThe Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma
Panel featuring Orit Avishai and Lynne Gerber. Moderated by Margot Weiss.
Read MoreActivism and the Academy: The Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma
Recorded Sep 24, 2011
Does a feminist perspective limit researchers' abilities to see and interpret empirical realities? What happens when these perspectives clash with the reality of field observations? A group of ethnographers discuss how their feminist perspectives can both limit and enhance their ability to analyze power structures and evaluate social change. Panelists include Orit Avishai (Fordham University) and Lynne Gerber (University of California, Berkeley) in this discussion moderated by Margot Weiss (Wesleyan University).
ListenRabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster: Intersections of Judaism, Gender, and Human Rights
Recorded Apr 6, 2011
In this year's Rennert Forum lecture, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster '01 reflects on her work as a human rights activist, mobilizing the Jewish community on campaigns against US-sponsored torture and modern slavery. Rabbi Kahn-Troster has worked tirelessly to bring about change in US foreign and domestic policy and to educate the public about the reality of torture and detainee treatment as a moral issue. In organizing across lines of faith and politics, she explores questions of how Judaism reacts to extreme violations of human dignity, what it means to recognize the sacredness of the Other, and the imperative to remember the real faces lost behind headlines. Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster is Director of Education and Outreach for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, where she directs campaigns against state-sponsored torture and modern slavery.
ListenCreated in God’s Image: Intersections of Judaism, Gender, and Human Rights
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster '01
In this year’s Rennert Forum lecture, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster ’01 will reflect on her work as a human rights activist, mobilizing the Jewish community on campaigns against US-sponsored torture and modern slavery. Rabbi Kahn-Troster has worked tirelessly to bring about change in US foreign and domestic policy and to educate the public about the reality […]
Read MoreHelen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights
Helen Suzman was a member of the South African Parliament for 36 years, from 1953-1989. She was the sole opposition voice condemning apartheid during the 13-year period (1961-1974) when she was the governing body’s only member of the Progressive Party. The exhibition explores nearly four decades of Suzman’s life and vision through photographs, personal letters, […]
Read MoreRuth Behar: Impossible Homecomings
Recorded Apr 10, 2008
Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, reflects on the recent literature being produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers, addressing their contradictory and often pained relationships to their home countries. Focusing on the work of Latin American and Caribbean women, she includes an account of her own return to Cuba and her complicated search for home. This Rennert Forum on Women lecture, entitled "Impossible Homecomings: Women Ethnographers and the Places They Left Behind," took place on April 10, 2008 at Barnard College.
ListenImpossible Homecomings: Women Ethnographers and the Places They Left Behind
Ruth Behar
In this year’s Rennert Forum on Women in Judaism, Ruth Behar, Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, writer, and noted feminist, will reflect on the recent literature being produced by diasporic women ethnographers, journalists, and writers, addressing their contradictory and often pained relationships to their home countries. Focusing on the work of Latin American and Caribbean women, […]
Read MoreManifest Your Destiny: Find the Courage to Defy Convention and Create a Life Worth Living
Loolwa Khazzoom '91
Since her activist days at Barnard College, Loolwa Khazzoom ’91 has followed her passion in building an unconventional career with a DIY (Do It Yourself) attitude. A self-taught Jewish multicultural educator, freelance writer, dance therapist, and singer/songwriter, she has presented and performed at leading venues, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Harvard University, and she […]
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