The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has released new proposed substantial equivalency regulations. The goal of these regulations is to hold nonpublic schools across the state accountable for providing its students with a basic secular education. Once passed, these regulations will serve as a crucial mechanism to ensure that the tens of thousands of school children […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Fradl Shtok and Yiddish Women’s Cultural Modernity Presented by Allison Schachter, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, English, and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University What role did women play in the making of Yiddish literary modernity? We know too little about the women writers, artists, and intellectuals who participated in transforming […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series “The Same as in the Portuguese Synagogue in New York”: Colonial New York’s Emergence as a Center of North American Jewish Commercial and Communal Activity Presented by Noah Gelfand, Doctoral Lecturer, History Department, Hunter College This talk employs an Atlantic perspective to examine the economic and religious endeavors of New […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and Hunter’s Jewish Studies Center co-host an urgently important panel discussion exploring the recent, exhaustive, and explosive New York Times investigative report on the steep decline of secular education in the state’s Hasidic Yeshivas. The widely discussed news story described the alarming and growing lack of proficiency among Hasidic yeshiva students […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Trends in American Jewish Names Presented by Sarah Benor, Vice Provost and Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College Which names do Jews and non-Jews associate most with Jews? How do Jews of different ages, ancestries, and religious orientations vary in the names they select for their children and […]
Roosevelt House and the Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College are proud to present a screening of selected clips from the new Ken Burns series The U.S. and The Holocaust followed by a discussion featuring co-director and producer Sarah Botstein in conversation with longtime Ken Burns collaborator, the writer of this and many other Ken […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Moshiach, Moshiach! Differing Notions of Messiah in Second Temple Judaism Presented by Rachel Slutsky, Monsignor John Oesterreicher Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity, Seton Hall University What do we mean when we talk about the messiah? This was a question circulating throughout ancient Judaism during the […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House and Hunter’s Jewish Studies Center co-host a discussion of the new book In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust by Richard Hurowitz. This powerfully illuminating and inspiring chronicle pays tribute to the incredible and often little-known deeds of […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series A Decade-Long Retrospective on US-Israel Relations Presented by Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a '22-'23 inaugural fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center for Antisemitism Research and an instructor in Jewish and Israel Studies, Rutgers University This program presents a decade-long retrospective of Diaspora-Israel relations, examining how American and Israeli realities […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series Performing Jewish Identity in Russian Immigrant Narratives of the Third Wave 1970-1980s) Presented by Yasha Klots, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hunter College Was the Third Wave of the Russian Emigration to the United States in fact Jewish? This talk will focus on Russophone authors from the Soviet Union immigrating to the […]
