Upcoming Sessions
Fall 2025
Interrreligious Dialogue, Missteps, and Opportunities: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Question of Antisemitism
September 15, 2025*
- Benjamin Sax, visiting scholar, Tauber Institute and Hornstein Professional Jewish Leadership Program
Co-sponsosed with the Tauber Institute, Hornstein Professional Jewish Leadership Program, and Brandeis Hillel.
*Note: This is on a Monday.
Financial Insecurity and College Success Among Jewish Young Adults
October 22, 2025
- Shahar Hecht, Nicole Samuel, and Graham Wright, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute
- Moderator: Samantha Pickette, Brandeis Hillel
Cruising the Mixed City: Jewish-Palestinian Homosexual Relations in Haifa at the End of the 20th Century
November 19, 2025
- Dotan Brom, visiting scholar, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
- Moderator: Edie Pick, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program
How the Gap Year in Israel Unsettles the American Jewish Middle-Class Educational Continuum
December 10, 2025
- Jon Levisohn, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Moderator: Nicole Samuel, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute
Spring 2026
History of Jewish Day Schools
February 25, 2026
- Jonathan Krasner, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Misfit: Jewishness and Whiteness in Organizational Life
March 25, 2026
- Samantha Pickette, Brandeis Hillel
Peace as Border-Crossing: Abie Nathan, Voice of Peace, and the Politics of the Airwaves
April 15, 2026
- Yuval Evri, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies