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 Faculty Presentations at Major Academic ConferencesFaculty Presentations at Major Academic Conferences
Association for Jewish Studies
Sarah Bunin Benor presented “Young Adults, Leadership, and 21st-Century American Jewish Cultural Change” and was the Chair and Respondent for the session on “Approaches to the Jewish Linguistic Spectrum”
Bill Cutter presented “1958--One Year in Israeli Literature: Reflections on Historiography”
Dr. Jonathan Krasner presented “Soviet Jewish Activism and the Transformation of Jewish Identity”
Panelist, “The Five Original Colleges of Jewish Studies: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
Bruce Phillips participated in the sessions on “Including Jewish Social Networks in Applied Research” and “Interfaith Wedding Ceremonies: Who What Where”
Dr. Haim O. Rechnitzer participated in the sessions on “Modern Hebrew Poets as Theologians” and “Teaching, Inquiry and Texts: New Approaches to Jewish Education”
Dvora Weisberg presented “The Practice of Academic Mentoring” in a session organized with Rabbi Jane Kanarek, Ph.D of Hebrew College in Boston
Wendy Zierler presented "Words Worthy of Being Shown and Heard": The Diary of Hava Shapiro
Society for Biblical Literature
Joshua Garroway presented “A New Sort of Priest for a New Sort of People: Reconfiguring Descent in Hebrews and Romans”
University of Minnesota – Center for Medieval Studies
Susan Einbinder presented “A Jewish Physician in Medieval Castile: The Case of Meir Alguades”
American Dialect Society
Sarah Bunin Benor presented ‘Ethnolinguistic repertoire: Avoiding contradiction in research on language and ethnicity”
North American Jewish Choral Festival
Benjie Schiller presented “Izzun Tefillah” and “Singing from Within; Cultivating compassionate attention toward one’s singing”
Conservative Judaism: Halakhah, Culture and Sociology at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Michael Meyer presented a Hebrew version of a lecture whose English title is "Conservative Judaism in Relation to Reform Judaism"
Ludwig-Maximilians University Lecture Series
Susan Einbinder will present "When the Ending Comes First: The Death and Life of Meir Alguades"
Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation’s oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR’s scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement’s congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR’s campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish history, identity, art, and archaeology, and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding. |
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