Women's Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at YINR is a monthly lecture series presented by female scholars on varied Jewish topics. These scholars can be local, national or international academics and/or educators.
All lectures are on Zoom only, free of charge and open to both women and men.
For further information or to be added to the WIJS email list, please email wijs@yinr.org or call 914-636-2215
WIJS Schedule 2024-2025
Wednesday, September 18 @8:15pm – Dr. Sandra Fox
Visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish History and Yiddish Studies, New York University
“The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America”
Wednesday, November 6 @8:15pm – Dr. Sarah Ifft Decker
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rhodes College
“Fighting with Contracts: Jewish Women's Weaponization of Christian Legal Culture in the Late Medieval Mediterranean”
Sunday, December 15 @10:30am (NOTE NEW DATE) – Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Assistant Professor of Jewish History, New York University Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
“Persecution and the Art of Responsa: Halakha in the Louvre”
Sunday, January 5, 2025 @10:30am – Dr. Yosefa (Fogel) Wruble
Teacher of Tanach, Biblical Exegesis, and Jewish Thought at Migdal Oz; Lecturer at Herzog College and Herzog Global
“Family Dynamics in Sefer Bereishit”
Sunday, January 26 @10:30am – Dr. Einat Wilf
Leading thinker, author, and speaker on Israel, Zionism, Foreign Policy and Education; Past Member of the Knesset
“A Conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf”
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 @8:15pm – Dr. Lynn Kaye
Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Thought, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Affiliate Faculty,
Studies Program, Brandeis University
“Dream Healing in the Talmud”
Sunday, March 2, 2025 @10:30am – Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Visiting Professor, Ruderman Program in American Jewish Studies; Senior Researcher at the Comper
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa
Topic TBD
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 @8:15pm – Dr. Christine Hayes
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Yale University
Topic TBD
May, 2025 – Date/speaker/topic TBD
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