_{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 8 @10:30am – 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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