Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

I Hope Hagar Goes Far, Far Away: A Case Study of Student Sex Educators' Uses of Feminist Ideology in Response to Genesis 16

Bunnies and Nachashim:  Jews in Playboy Magazine

Joint with WGS and NEJS.

Rofei l'Shvurei Leiv: The Contemporary Jewish Legal Treatment of Depressive Disorders in Conflict with Halakha

Recipient of the 2018 Doris Brewer Cohen Prize for best senior thesis submitted in the Humanities Division, 2018 Brandeis University Commencement

“Moroccan Jewish Onomastics in Casablanca: Lessons on Moroccan Jewish Identification and Positionality”

“Thunder’s Relationship to Immanence and Transcendence: From Rabbinic Text to Hasidic Thought”

“The Innovation of Isaac Luria to Cover One’s Eyes with One’s Right Hand During Qeri’at Shema”

“And a Fire Came Down from Before the Lord: Examining the Relationship Between Leviticus 10 and Numbers 16-18”

“Omnipotence in the Shadow of Aristotle”

“The Motivations and Experiences of Jewish Students of Arabic at Israeli Universities”

“Christianity and Antisemitism: An Evaluation of Rosemary Ruether’s Faith and Fratricide”

“‘I will demand of you, and you will answer me.’ Arguing Effectively with God”

“How 1950s Suburban Synagogue Architecture Reflects Changing Attitudes within American Judaism”

“Adam’s Sin as a Model for Human Nature and the Redemption of Israel: The Interpretations of Genesis Chapter 3 in Avot D’Rabbi Natan and Genesis Rabbah”

“Milah Confronts Modernity: Analyzing Debates Over Circumcision Technique”

“Hezbollah’s Lebanonization and its Effects on the Israel-Lebanon Relationship from 2004-2008”

“Judaism in the Buckle of the Bible Belt: The Oklahoma City Jewish Community”

“Living Stones in the 21st Century: The Complicated Identity of Christian Arabs in Israel”

“The Mellah: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Narratives on Urban Spaces”

“InTension: PresenTense and the Reinvention of the Next Generation Jew”

“Uvah Teheze: Biblical Criticism and Halakhah in Modern Jewish Thought”

“In the Shadow of Sulzer: The Mixed Legacy of Cantor Alois Kaiser”

“Hamakom Yinachem Etchem: Understanding the Impact of Jewish Mourning Rituals Within Developing Jewish Identity”

“Differences Within: Gender and Gender-Bending in Ugaritic Mythological, Epistolary, Legal and Administrative Texts”

“A Monumental Statement: Placement and Meaning in the Shaw and New England Holocaust Memorial”

“Service Learning Programs in Jewish Day School”

“The Language and Legacy of Violence in the Akedah”

“The Position of the Hebrew Language among Arab Citizens of Israel - In Hebrew, יחסם של ערבים אזרחי ישראל לשפה ”העברית

“From Ideology to the Classroom: Israel Education in the Religious Schools of a Reform and a Conservative Congregation”

“Upon the Shoulders of the Seaward Philistines: Philistine Governance in the Iron Age I and IIA”

“The Self-Identity of the Naqab-Bedouin Students of Ben-Gurion University”

“On the Border of Fire: Origins of the National Religious Settler Movement in Israel”

“Scottish Missionary Work among Jews in the 19th Century”

“Post-Jewish Art”

“Imahot Liturgy: A Study of the Historic Development of the Insertion of the Imahot into the Amidah”