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Dr. Emily Filler | The God Who Saves and the God Who Kills

Jewish Studies April 14, 2017

The Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in the Hebrew Bible is frequently invoked as a profound and enduring example of liberation. But whose liberation? How does the Exodus look different from the perspectives of the text’s “others”? Emily Filler of Earlham College facilitated a lively discussion of these questions and of the biblical texts that prompt […]

Kosher/Soul | Michael Twitty

Jewish Studies November 12, 2015

Being African American and Jewish is for many a combination that many can’t wrap their heads around. However, for thousands of Jews of color; having heritage, faith and family in both Diasporas—African and Jewish—and their many intersections means creating material, social and ideational lives that interweave identities and histories. For Michael Twitty, this includes food […]

The Transformative Power of American Jewish Feminism | Shuly Schwartz

Jewish Studies November 4, 2015

Shuly Schwartz, the Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Walter and Sarah Schlesinger Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary, offers insight to students at Elon about the history of American Jewish feminism with her lecture, “Rugelach, Rummage Sales, Rabbis and Rosh Hodesh Groups: The Transformative Power […]

Praying with their Legs: Rabbi Abraham Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Susannah Heschel

Jewish Studies October 21, 2014

Dr. Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, gave a lecture titled “Praying with their Legs: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.” on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Elon University’s Numen Lumen Pavilion. Heschel spoke about the friendship and shared vision of the Rev. […]

One Man’s Incredible Journey against Considerable Odds | Maj. Gen. Sidney Schachnow

Jewish Studies April 28, 2014

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and imprisoned during the Holocaust in a German concentration camp, Major General Sidney Shachnow escaped from captivity and eventually settled in the United States, where he attained the rank of major general and served as commander of the U.S. Army Special Forces Command. He is also the author of the gripping […]

How Did the Holocaust and Human Rights Intersect (and was it a Good Thing)? | Samuel Moyn

Jewish Studies March 13, 2014

In Moyn’s lecture, “How Did the Holocaust and Human Rights Intersect (and was it a Good Thing)?,” he considers the relationship between the Holocaust and its memory, and the rise of human rights norms and movements. Surveying the post-World War II era, he asks why not only Holocaust consciousness but also human rights activism came […]

The Future of Jewish Christian Dialogue | Panel Discussion

Jewish Studies November 17, 2013

Elon University Conference on Jewish Christian Relations, November 17, 2013 Dr. Stanley Hauerwas Dr. Peter Ochs The Conference on Jewish-Christian Relations brought together students, scholars and members of the general public for an in-depth look at the history of the relationship among the world’s Jewish and Christian communities and offering an outlook for how that […]

Reading Genesis | Panel Discussion

Jewish Studies November 17, 2013

Elon University Conference on Jewish Christian Relations, November 17, 2013 Dr. Marc Bregman Dr. Ellen Haskell Dr. Malachi Hacohen The Conference on Jewish-Christian Relations brought together students, scholars and members of the general public for an in-depth look at the history of the relationship among the world’s Jewish and Christian communities and offering an outlook […]