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Jewish Studies at Northeastern offers the opportunity to explore the history, cultures, and religion of the Jewish people. Read More>>
Upcoming Event 10/26/2016
“Jews, Palestinians, and Israel: Three Historiographies, Three Moralities, and Three Roadmaps” >>
Professor Chaim Gans, a prize-winning Israeli political philosopher, will draw upon his most recent book, A Political Theory for the Jewish People, to outline three competing approaches to Zionism, and will explain how these different approaches produce different roadmaps for future relationships between Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine, and between Jews in Israel and world Jewry…
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Student Spotlight
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Noah Lapidus
When Noah Lapidus was in the fifth grade, his teacher asked the class to produce a family tree. Already curious about his family’s origins, the 11-year old started filling in the branches of Lapiduses and Weinsteins who were pillars of the Jewish community in his hometown of Birmingham, AL.
Faculty Spotlight
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Jonathan Kaufman
Jonathan Kaufman’s career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor for such illustrious publications as The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg News has taken him around the world, covering racism and job discrimination in Boston, political, economic, and social issues in Beijing, and the breakdown of Communism in Berlin.