On Monday, April 8, Northeastern’s annual Holocaust Awareness Week opened with the Holocaust Commemoration, featuring a presentation by Gideon Klein Scholar Heather Viola and Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies Laurel Leff. Click here for an article in News@Northeastern on the event.
Jewish Advocate’s Preview of Nathan Englander at Northeastern University
Check out Nathan Englander article, here!
A Conversation with Consul General of Israel to New England Shai Bazak, former spokesman for Prime Minister of the State of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, on current trends in Israeli media and political journalism. Click the article link below for more information on his visit:
The Jewish Studies program is now accepting applications for the 2013-2014 Brudnick and Ruderman Scholarships! Open to incoming and currently enrolled students who plan to major or minor in Jewish Studies at Northeastern. For more information, Read more…
On Tuesday, November 27, Rabbi Capers Funnye of Chicago’s Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation gave a lecture at NU entitled “Exploring Diversity in American and Global Jewish Communities: An African-American Rabbi’s Personal Journey to Judaism.” Read more…
Check out this article about Professor Bill Miles’ upcoming book on News@Northeastern!
Professor Wiesenberg will present several of his compositions and speak about how he fuses “east” and “west” in his music, Read more…
On the 68th anniversary of the capture of Anne Frank by the Nazis, Director of Jewish Studies Lori Lefkovitz writes about the impact of Frank’s diary on global understanding of the Holocaust. Click here for the full article.
This spring, Lori Lefkovitz, director of Jewish Studies, spoke about Jewish food as part of Northeastern’s Open Classroom series on Food and American Society: An Open Perspective. Click here to watch the full talk!
Lori Lefkovitz, director of Jewish Studies, was interviewed recently for an Australian radio program on “The Good Book.” Click here for more information and to listen to the program!
University Statement on Americans for Peace and Tolerance
For several months, a group that calls itself “Americans for Peace and Tolerance” has targeted Northeastern University with distorted videos and press releases. The group has selectively cherry-picked past events—some more than a decade old and all taken out of appropriate context—in an attempt to portray the university as hostile to the Jewish community. Nothing could be further from the truth. Read more…
Check out this article about Art Spiegelman’s lecture on News@Northeastern!
A $5,000 award is given yearly for a student to perform and/or study the music or art of artists persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Read more…
Check out the article about Jewish Studies and Director Lori Lefkovitz in news@Northeastern!
The Jewish Studies Program, directed by Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Read more…
Monday, October 24th- Friday, October 28th
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Wednesday, October 26th- Friday, December 16th
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Emili Kaufman, the 2011-2012 Gideon Klein Scholar, was profiled by News@Northeastern. To read the full story, click here.
Jewish Studies Director Dr. Lori Lefkovitz’s work on the Biblical roots of Jewish stereotypes is featured in Boston’s Jewish Advocate. Read more…
The Jewish Studies program congratulates Emili Kaufman ’12 on being named the 2011-2012 Gideon Klein Scholar. Read more…