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Seeing Ourselves in Books | Amanda Mbuvi

Assistant Professor of Religion Amanda Mbuvi of High Point University presents “Seeing Ourselves in Books: What a Jewish Transracial Adoption Story Illustrates about Family and Identity.” In the children’s book “Rebecca’s Journey Home,” an American family’s experience adopting a baby from Vietnam and navigating issues of race, religion and nationality illuminates each of those modes […]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day | Hank Brodt

Teaching & Learning Technologies February 20, 2019

Born in 1925 and now a resident of High Point, N.C., Brodt was a prisoner in five Nazi concentration camps and a forced labor camp, including Plashov, Matthausen and Ebensee, during his teenage years. His tale of struggle and his survival against the odds illuminates one of the darkest periods of human history, the Holocaust. […]

A Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor | Dr. Zev Harel

Teaching & Learning Technologies May 5, 2017

87 year old Auschwitz survivor and Professor Emeritus of Cleveland State University, Zev Harel, shares his story with the Elon Community. (389)

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 […]

Stuff Happens… Stories of Change, Transition, and Transformation | Iliana Brodsky

Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life April 14, 2017

Iliana Brodsky, a senior majoring in Religious Studies and Music, tells her personal story of Passover. “My story is the story of Passover. It’s the story of oppression, of bondage, and of slavery, and the story of liberation and of joy and of all the work that’s implicated in that, and of all the work […]

Seeing Israel, A Real Life Nation Through a Theological Lens | Rabbi Irving Greenberg

Teaching & Learning Technologies April 11, 2016

Rabbi Irving Greenberg explores the tensions and risks in how the State of Israel is imagined by contemporary Jews and Christians, how the conflicts over Israel have led to controversy and distrust in Jewish-Christian dialogue, and how such dialogue might be improved. Greenberg is a celebrated scholar, author, and rabbi with a PhD from Harvard […]

A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Dr. Charles Marsh

Teaching & Learning Technologies November 12, 2015

Marsh’s 2014 book, “Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” has been reviewed in several prestigious venues, including the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Many scholars have been drawn to Marsh’s work because of the unique insight and controversy his book provides into Bonhoeffer’s life and death in the Nazi regime and […]

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 […]