Professors Susannah Heschel, Tarek El-Ariss and Ezzedine Fishere were featured in a Boston Globe Editorial for initiating forums for peaceful dialogue on Dartmouth's campus amidst the Middle-East conflict.
Chair of Middle Eastern Studies program, Professor Tarek El-Ariss and Chair of Jewish Studies program, Professor Susannah Heschel, spoke on CNN's Amanpour and Company with Michel Martin.
A story on colleges' responses to the Hamas attack on Israel quotes Susannah Heschel of Jewish studies, and Ezzedine Fishere of Middle Eastern studies, on how their programs' close ties enabled respectful community wide dialogue. Link to article: https://bitly.ws/YCwd
Join collaborators Mira Sucharov and Omar Dajani for a conversation on what they have learned about hope and despair, identity and memory, and friendship across differences. Monday, October 30, 2023, 7:15pm – 8:45pm at Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center. FREE and open to public.
Academic and Holocaust historian Doris Bergen will deliver a lecture on Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 5:15pm at Carpenter Room 201F. The event is co-sponsored by The Jewish Studies Program, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Department of History and Department of German Studies.
The next public discussion on the events unfolding in Israel and Gaza will be held on Oct. 12.
The Jewish Studies Program is horrified by the attack on Israel by Hamas. Our colleague, Professor Shaul Magid, offers this comment, based on classical Jewish sources.
Assistant Professor of Religion, Rachel Feldman has won the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award for her book, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary.
Remembering Atrocities: Lessons from Germany. Thursday, October 5, 2023, 5:00pm – 6:30pm, Ballroom, Hanover Inn. The event is sponsored by: Dickey Center, Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life & Jewish Studies Program
Marc Caplan will deliver a lecture titled, The Ethics of Holocaust Representation: Isaac Bashevis Singer and American Fiction, on September 13, 2023 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm at Haldeman Center 041. The event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and The Ethics Institute. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
