2022 Events

Studio Israel with Aveve Dese

December 1, 2022

Studio Israel

Singer Aveva Dese in conversation with Shula Mola, Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Aveva Dese is an Ethiopian-Israeli singer-songwriter who fuses traditional Ethiopian sounds & grooves with her soul-pop melodies, producing a unique style with universal appeal.

Discover more of Aveva Dese's work.

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“Gestating Difference: Jews, Non-Jews, and Abortion in the Babylonian Talmud”

November 14, 2022

Sara Ronis, St. Mary’s University, Texas

HBI Seminar Series / HBI Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law Scholar in Residence

“Rabbis Before Ordination: Origin Stories of Female Orthodox Rabbis”

November 10, 2022

Michal Raucher, Rutgers University

HBI Seminar Series

Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough, editors of "Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine"

November 9, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

A publication of the HBI Series on Jewish Women

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“Queering and Transing the Jewish Life Cycle”

November 7, 2022

Max Strassfeld, University of Arizona

HBI Seminar Series / HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law 

Max Strassfeld, "Trans Tal­mud: Androg­y­nes and Eunuchs in Rab­binic Literature"

October 26, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

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Studio Israel with Orit Bergman

October 20, 2022

Studio Israel

Children’s book author/illustrator Orit Bergman in conversation with Orna Granot, Associate Curator of Illustrated Children’s Books at the Israel Museum, and moderated by Jonathan Krasner, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research at Brandeis.

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Tamar Biala, Editor, "Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash"

October 19, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

A Publication of the HBI Series on Jewish Women

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Rachel Barenbaum, “Atomic Anna”

September 14, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

HBI is a network member of the Jewish Book Council. 

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September 8, 2022

Art Exhibit In The Kniznick Gallery

Hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis with generous funding from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

Read more in "The Boston Globe" and "JewishBoston."

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September 7, 2022

Art Exhibit In The Kniznick Gallery

Hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis with generous funding from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

Read more in "The Boston Globe" and "JewishBoston."

July 28, 2022

Art Exhibit In The Kniznick Gallery

Hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis with generous funding from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

Read more in "The Boston Globe" and "JewishBoston."

Contagious Truths

HBI Artist Program with Tamar Nissim

March 10-July 8, 2022

 Co-sponsor: The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.

WATCH THE OPENING ARTIST TALK

Portuguese Jewish Women between Two Courts: Germany's Imperial Supreme Court and the Portuguese Inquisition

May 2, 2022

Tamar Menashe, University of Pennsylvania

HBI Seminar Series, HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law

Beyond Trauma: Roots and Routes

May 1, 2022

HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies

Featuring mixed-media artist Sandra Mayo,“Beyond Trauma: Roots and Routes” is an interactive art exhibit that took place at Brandeis University during the 2022 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.

Women’s Voices and the Holocaust: How Stories are Told

April 28, 2022

Presented by the Holocaust Research Study Group (HRSG)

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Marcia Falk, "Night of Beginnings: A Radical Re-visioning of the Passover Seder"

April 11, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

HBI is honored to have funded a portion of Falk’s research.

 Co-Sponsor: The Brandeis Alumni Association

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Studio Israel with Tamar Nissim

April 7, 2022

Tamar Nissim in conversation with Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber

Studio Israel is an online conversation series that looks at Israeli culture and diversity through the lens of contemporary Israeli artists and creatives. Chaired by Caron Tabb. Studio Israel is a partnership among Hadassah-Brandeis InstituteJewish Arts Collaborative, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and the Vilna Shul, and is made possible by generous support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies. 

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Using New Criminal Laws Against Coercive Control to Combat Get Abuse: Lessons from the Field

A series of online workshops organized by the Boston Agunah Task Force, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, JOFA, and Cheirut

March 22, 2022

Panel 1: “Coercive Control” and Get abuse in the United Kingdom

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March 29, 2022

Panel 2: Possibilities for Using “Coercive Control” to Fight Get Abuse in the United States

WATCH PANEL 2

April 5, 2022

Panel 3: Considering the Halachic Implications of Relying on “Coercive Control” Laws to Fight Get Abuse 

WATCH PANEL 3

"Man convicted after refusing a Jewish divorce in landmark English court case", The Jewish Chronicle

"Man jailed for not granting Jewish divorce to wife", BBC News

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The Yiddish “New Girl” and the Power of Getting Lost

April 4, 2022

Miriam Udel, Emory University & HBI Scholar in Residence

HBI Seminar Series

“Two Writers in Our House”: Unearthing Women’s Contributions to the American Yiddish Press

March 28, 2022

Ayelet Brinn, University of Pennsylvania & HBI Scholar in Residence

HBI Seminar Series

Judy Heumann, "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist"

March 23, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman Conversations Series

Co-sponsors: Hadassah's Attorneys and Judges Council and Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc.

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The Torah of Reproductive Freedom

March 20, 2022

Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law

Gender, Reproductive Rights and Jewish law: Israeli and American Perspectives

March 7, 2022

Gender, Reproductive Rights and Jewish Law: Israeli and American Perspectives: Part 1

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March 14, 2022

Gender, Reproductive Rights and Jewish Law: Israeli and American Perspectives: Part 2

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Co-sponsor: The Forum for Gender Law and Policy at the University of Haifa, JOFA

Contagious Truths

March 10, 2022

HBI Artist Program with Tamar Nissim

Opening and Artist Talk

Co-sponsor: The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

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Galleries, Guilds, and Graves: British Orthodox Jewish Women

February 28, 2022

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

HBI Seminar Series

Latin American Jewish Studies Association is pleased to announce the launch of its journal, "Latin American Jewish Studies"

February 23, 2022

HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies

Co-sponsor: Latin American Jewish Studies Association

Laura Arnold Leibman, PhD, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family"

February 15, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

HBI is a network member of the Jewish Book Council. 

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Studio Israel with Dege Feder

February 10, 2022

Dege Feder in conversation with Shula Mola

Studio Israel is an online conversation series that looks at Israeli culture and diversity through the lens of contemporary Israeli artists and creatives. Chaired by Caron Tabb. Studio Israel is a partnership among Hadassah-Brandeis InstituteJewish Arts Collaborative, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, and the Vilna Shul, and is made possible by generous support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies. 

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“Nobody Told Me”: The Loss of Family Through the Eyes of Wanda Albinska, a Child Holocaust Survivor from Warsaw

February 7, 2022

Co-sponsor: The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

Watch the discussion and Q&A

Pressing Feminist Agendas: New Reports from the Field

January 31, 2022

Launch Event for NASHIM Issue 37

Co-sponsor: Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

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Rachel Sharona Lewis, "The Rabbi Who Prayed With Fire"

January 19, 2022

The Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series

Co-sponsor: The Brandeis Alumni Association

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