This semester, I had the exceptional pleasure of teaching Hebrew Bible to a remarkably diverse group of freshmen in the Honors program, students from many backgrounds and countries of origin. Last week, as we studied the Book of Exodus, the paradigmatic Read more…
Holocaust Awareness Week has occupied an important place in Northeastern’s calendar for many years. This year’s observances, which will take place April 8-11, are presented by the Northeastern Humanities Center and the Holocaust Awareness Read more…
Phil Brown has unusually diverse academic interests. He has had a long and distinguished career researching the interactions between the environment and health, including disputes over environmental causation of illness, community response to toxic Read more…
Anna Meyers grew up with a strong commitment to Judaism, Jewish learning, and the Jewish community. Like many children, she resisted going to religious school on Sunday mornings when she was young, but unlike the many Jewish young people whose religious Read more…
Every spring Jewish Studies minors gather for the Jewish Studies Module, a unique one-credit capstone class in which students create an original project that brings together an aspect of Jewish Studies with an aspect of their major. Read more…
Over the winter, Jewish Studies director Lori Lefkovitz presented on Jewish ritual for a symposium on Jewish Feminism at Hebrew College and was a featured speaker for several synagogue events, including a Tu B’Shvat program for Temple Emanuel and Mishkan Tefila in Newton and a scholar-in-residence program at Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia. She recently [...] Read more…
As usual, the Jewish Studies calendar is packed with a variety of engaging events this Spring, including film, music, lectures, and a reading by acclaimed author Nathan Englander. Read more…
