Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos听receives a听Guggenheim fellowship

July 8, 2024

Brian Catlos received a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on his project An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, a culmination of his scholarship to date showing when, how and why members of these three faith communities鈥攚hich hail from Africa, the Middle East and...

Samira Mehta

Samira Mehta publishes piece on interfaith Jewish relationships

June 25, 2024

Professor Mehta's latest piece in The Forward talks about how a major Jewish denomination鈥檚 main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships. "The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith; these couples are raising interfaith families. But despite that, few rabbis have personal experience in interfaith nuclear families,...

Samira Mehta

Samira Mehta publishes a piece on the diversity of American Jews

June 13, 2024

Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there鈥檚 a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world鈥攁nd represented in the U.S. The diversity of American Jews is a major focus Mehta's research, both through her current project, Jews of Color: Histories and Futures...

Rosenau

Maggie Rosenau receives a 2024 Open Educator Award

May 29, 2024

Maggie Rosenau was nominated for their creation of an eight-unit Beginning Tibetan Language Open Educational Resource. The 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 Open Educator Award is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Student Government. It celebrates campus innovators who are enhancing learning and supporting the open sharing of educational materials. Read the...

Samira Mehta

Samira Mehta interviewed by Interfaith Voices Radio

May 15, 2024

Samira Mehta discusses how words like 鈥渟acred,鈥 鈥渆nsoulment,鈥 鈥渕other,鈥 and 鈥渂aby鈥 have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy. Listen to the podcast here.

Samira Mehta

Samira Mehta publishes an article in the Conversation on Asian Jewish Americans

May 15, 2024

"May is both Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month. Two entirely separate commemorations for two entirely separate communities, right? Think again. Not only do Asian American Jews exist, but we come from a variety of places and come to Judaism in a...

澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 student viewing the Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness, & Identity exhibit in Norlin Library. (Lucy Adlen/CU Independent)

The 2022-24 Embodied Judaism exhibit was featured in the CU Independent.

April 1, 2024

The Know Your Nosh exhibit: Exploring the significance of food in Jewish identity As part of the university鈥檚 Embodied Judaism Series, the exhibit explores the role of food and agriculture within Jewish cultural, national and political identities. It also uses food to delve into the connection between the United States,...

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes new book with Yad Vashem

Feb. 28, 2024

Prof. Pegelow Kaplan's latest book entitled Taking the Transnational Turn: The German-Jewish Press and Journalism Beyond Borders, 1933-1943 recently appeared (in Hebrew) with Yad Vashem Publications in Jerusalem. In his study, Pegelow Kaplan calls for a rereading of German-Jewish journalism during the Nazi period based on transnational approaches. His work...

Rebecca Wartell

Prof. Wartell to give a talk on Conversos & The Inquisition

Feb. 16, 2024

Prof. Rebecca Wartell will give a talk on Conversos and The Inquisition on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 with Kavod Senior Life at the JCC. For information and registration, go to https://kavodseniorlife.org/signup/

Eyal Rivlin

Eyal Rivlin Wins Prestigious Teaching Award

Jan. 29, 2024

Eyal Rivlin received the Best Should Teach Gold Award. With this award, Professor Rivlin joins an elite group of dedicated scholars who demonstrate exceptional teaching and academic leadership, exemplifying award founders Lindley and Marguerite Stiles鈥 message, 鈥淭he Best Should Teach.鈥 Congratulations, Professor Rivlin!

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