The Jewish president of a major American university came to speak many years ago at Dartmouth College, where I am a professor, and denounced affirmative action as a serious threat to Jews. I pointed out to him that affirmative action had been tremendously beneficial to my own career as a woman who is also a Jew. He was stumped and said, "I never thought of that."
[more]Last week, a letter titled "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" was published in Harper's Magazine. The letter was undersigned by 153 scholars, writers and political theorists, including Dartmouth's Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies Susannah Heschel.
[more]The Jewish Studies Program Steering is delighted to announce that Professor Shaul Magid will have a faculty appointment with the Jewish Studies Program.
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Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, who died of the coronavirus at 89, was a person of deeds who wanted to inspire us. How can we emulate him? Professor Susannah Heschel writes in Tablet Magazine.
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Susannah Heschel and Shaul Magid contributed reviews about the book, Hasidism: A New History. The reviews are available in Marginalia LA Review of Books.
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