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The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute is now hiring a Communications Coordinator. We are seeking an energetic, tech-savvy, self-starter to play key role in essential communications projects. This person reports to the Director of Communications, assisting with PR and marketing campaigns, delivery of communications products, and acting as project manager for specific assignments. Please click here for more information, including how to apply.
New England Premiere at the Boston Jewish Film Festival
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Title: Two Lives Plus One (Deux vies...plus une)
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008
Time: 9:15 pm
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
New England Premiere
Please join the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at the 20th annual Boston Jewish Film Festival Director for Two Lives Plus One (Deux vies...plus une), a feminist comedy directed by Idit Cébula. When Eliane Weiss (the marvelous Emmanuelle Devos) begins to take herself and her writing seriously, her family and friends become concerned. Mon dieu! What is happening to the attentive mother, selfless teacher, devoted wife, friend, and good Jewish daughter? This touching tale of female fulfillment is told with Gallic charm and Jewish heart. Tickets: $12 general admission, $10 discounted (Festival, MFA, CCT, ICA, WGBH members, students and seniors), $8 group tickets (arranged through outreach@bjff.org prior to October 17 for groups of 20+).
A full schedule and more details on the Boston Jewish Film Festival will be available October 6 at www.bjff.org.
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A Jewish Women’s Prayer Book, by Aliza Lavie
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Title: A Jewish Women’s Prayer Book
Date: November 16, 2008
Time: tba
Location: Leventhal - Sidman JCC, Newton, MA
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Associate Aliza Lavie will speak about her book “A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book” an anthology originally published in Hebrew (2005) that draws from a wide range of sources, both geographically and historically, presenting a variety of Jewish texts and traditions to commemorate every season and every passage in the cycle of life. This presentation is part of the annual Boston Jewish Book Fair.
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Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love, by Judith Katzir
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Title: Dearest Anne: A Tale of Impossible Love: A conversation with the author Judith Katzir
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Best-selling Israeli novelist Judith Katzir recreates a writer’s coming-of-age during the 1970s in her novel “Dearest Anne.” When Rivi returns to Israel decades after a turbulent affair with her female literature teacher, she recovers the emotionally charged journals she once addressed to Anne Frank. As Rivi reads them again, readers experience her teenage angst and the jolt of her illicit affair that ended in scandal. Provocative and heartbreaking, the book gracefully echoes Frank’s famous diary and at the same time engages with its tragic heroine, revealing universal truths about the transition from girl to woman. Katzir will discuss her identity as a Jewish, Israeli, woman writer, as well as the connections to Anne Frank and the memory of Holocaust in Israel.
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Janice Fernheimer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Title: Hora-dancing in Harlem: Hatzaad Harishon, Zionism, and the Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity.
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Golding Builiding, Room107, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
In this talk, HBI Scholar-in-Residence Janice Fernheimer will discuss Hatzaad Harishon, a biracial non-profit organization that promoted unity among New York City's black and white Jewish populations by emphasizing Zionism and identification with Israel. Fernheimer will show how the group's nationally recognized black Jewish youth dance troupe and itswhite Jewish leader, Sybil Kaufman, exemplify both the organization's successes and challenges in advocating for a more inclusive, diverse concept of Jewish identity.
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Vanessa Paloma, Independent Scholar,
Soloist, Performance Artist, Writer and Lecturer.
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Title: Mother, Lover, Adulteress or Bride? Gender and Power in Judeo-Spanish Romances from Northern Morocco
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Time: 7:45 pm
Location: Lieberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Epstein Building, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Judeo-Spanish women's oral literature was a powerful medium for cultural transmission of identity and gender roles in the Spanish-speaking Jewish community of Northern Morocco. These songs have embedded messages ranging from deep spiritual teachings to humorous sexual innuendos which simultaneously formed part of a vibrant private women's world.
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• Provides captivating profiles on sixteen artisans from nine countries
• Offers comprehensive information on craft and techniques
• Highlights each artisan’s work with beautiful, full-color images
• Includes U.S. national and Jewish holidays, weekly Torah portions, and international candle-lighting times
• Sixteen-month format (September 2008 through December 2009) allows for long-term planning
• Measures 12" x 12"
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Experience the beautiful work and inspiring life stories of sixteen global artisans using traditional techniques to elevate their craft to the highest level!
Click here for ordering details.
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HBO, Sundance... and The Jewish Channel?
Learn how and why The Jewish Channel (TJC) was created; check out TJC's customized lineup of films just for our 614 readers in Top Flicks for Jewish Chicks; read what Ruth Diskin, one of Israel's top Israeli distributors, has to say about today's cutting-edge Israeli films; go behind the scenes with TJC's manager of original programming; and find out the many surprising ties between Rastas and Jews.
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The deadline for the Rosalie Katchen Travel Grant to this year's Association of Jewish Studies meeting in Washington, D.C. is Friday, October 17, 2008. Click here to learn more about the Rosalie Katchen Travel Grant.
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