Recorded On:
January 20, 2023
SPEAKERS:
Chana Kronfeld
Wendy Ilene Zierler
Barry Wimpfheimer
Co-Presented with Prooftexts
Chana Kronfeld, Bernie H. Williams Professor Emerita, Comparative, Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, University of California, Berkeley; Speaker
Rabbi Wendy Zierler, Ph.D., Sigmund Falk Professor, Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies, HUC-JIR/NY; Co-Chair, Prooftexts; Co-Moderator
Barry Wimpfheimer, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University; Co-Chair, Prooftexts; Co-Moderator
Join Chana Kronfeld as she speaks about her article in Prooftexts 39:2, which deals with the biblical convention of female personification of the land from the Bible to modern Hebrew poetry.
Recorded On:
January 18, 2023
SPEAKERS:
Sarah Bunin Benor
Bruce A. Phillips
Steven Windmueller
Joshua Holo
Sarah Benor, Ph.D., Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics; Vice Provost, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
Bruce Phillips, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
Steven Windmueller, Ph.D., Interim Director of HUC’s Zelikow School; Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Studies, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
Joshua Holo, Ph.D., Dean, Jack H. Skirball Campus; Associate Professor of Jewish History, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles
In 2021, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, in partnership with the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and NORC at the University of Chicago, sponsored and conducted The Study of Jewish LA, an examination of major trends in LA Jewish demography and sociology. Join HUC faculty in a discussion, hosted by the LA Federation, about this long-overdue study and its novel approach to gauging Jewish life, questioning our traditional interpretation of intermarriage, diversity, religiosity, and identity.
Recorded On:
January 12, 2023
SPEAKERS:
Lilliana Mason, Ph.D
Andrew Marantz
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President, HUC-JIR
Lilliana Mason, Ph.D., SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Marantz, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President, HUC-JIR
We are joined by Professor Lilliana Mason and New Yorker staff writer, Andrew Marantz. Both writers have worked to understand what has changed in our democracy over the last decade, as extremists have utilized the power of social media to amplify their positions and our politics have become increasingly polarized. In her recent work, Dr. Mason has argued that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, she suggests, they tend to view one another with distrust and to work for party victory above all else. Andrew Marantz reason that that technology companies have profited off the most extreme voices. In his writing, he has charted how Silicon Valley has unwittingly contributed to both the rise in white nationalism and our polarized politics. In their conversation, Mason and Marantz will invite the community of HUC to consider how we arrived at our current state of political polarization, and what we might do about it.
Recorded On:
January 12, 2023
SPEAKERS:
Maya Benton
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Joan H. Neuberger
Jonathan Scheuer
Daniel Scheuer
Charles Seton
Jean Bloch Rosensaft
Maya Benton, Curator and Art Historian
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ph.D., Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies, New York University
Joan H. Neuberger, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Scheuer, Film and Music Producer
Daniel Scheuer, Photographer and Teacher
Charles Seton, Photo-Archivist
Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Director, Bernard Heller Museum; Senior Advisor to President, HUC-JIR/NY
Our guests speakers will guide us on a journey through the lives of ordinary people in pre-war Europe, by means of black and white photography through the thoughtful eye of 17-year-old Richard J. Scheuer, former Chairman of the Board at HUC-JIR.
Recorded On:
January 6, 2023
SPEAKERS:
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President, HUC-JIR
Susannah Heschel, Ph.D.
Cornel West, Ph.D
Prophetic Leadership in a Time of Democratic Crisis
Susannah Heschel, Ph.D., Chair, Jewish Studies Program; Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth University
Cornel West, Ph.D., Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair, Union Theological Seminary
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President, HUC-JIR; Moderator
We welcome you to join Dr. Susannah Heschel and Dr. Cornel West for a conversation on the purpose, form, risks, and role of prophetic leadership in our moment of democratic fragility. Dr. West and Dr. Heschel will discuss visions of prophetic leadership as presented by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting on what their examples might teach us about the resonance and tensions between African-American Christian and 20th Century Jewish forms of prophetic witness. How can their models inform our own leadership? How might we balance the requirements of prophetic witness with those of leadership among communities of diverse perspectives? Dr. West and Dr. Heschel will consider these questions in dialogue with the work of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Dr. King, their own scholarship, and our precarious political moment.
Recorded On:
December 23, 2022
SPEAKERS:
Andrew Rehfeld Ph.D
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Rabbi Deborah Waxman
Rabbi Shirley Idelson
Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President, HUC-JIR
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, Ph.D., Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., President and CEO, Reconstructing Judaism
Rabbi Shirley Idelson, Ph.D., Moderator, Director, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University
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