Past Events

Collegium Institute Presents: Varieties of Modern Orthodoxy

A lecture and conversation about the history of orthodox religious movements entering modernity across Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions.…

Professor Jodi Magness’ excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel's Galilee have brought to light the remains of a monumental Late Roman (fifth century) synagogue building that is paved with stunning and…

A full-day workshop: "Sacred Texts? Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an in Jewish Research of the 19th Century and Beyond"

FILM SCREENING of EVE ANNENBURG'S

ROMEO AND JULIET IN YIDDISH (2010)

in English and Yiddish with English Subtitles

This innovative Independent Film is split between a parallel reality and modern day…

Susannah Heschel/Dartmouth College

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), one of the most influential modern theologians and a visionary Jewish leader, played a pivotal role in shaping a new relationship…

Ibrahim Miari, University of Pennsylvania 

"In Between" is a one-man, semi-autobiographical theater performance on growing up the son of a Muslim Palestinian father and an Israeli Jewish mother.

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Yael Bartana, Israeli Video Artist

The exhibition, "Itinerant Belongings," opens Nov. 1 at Slought and Addams Hall. 

Sponsored by PennDesign and the Jewish Studies Program.

Israeli storyteller, writer, poet, theater director, producer, chef, 
and bon vivant, Yossi Alfi, immigrated to Israel as a young child and spent his formative years in a transit camp (ma'abarah), a place where many…

Schedule

10:00 - 10:30    light breakfast

10:30 - 12:30     Session I: Judaism in Islamic Studies
Joseph Lowry, University of Pennsylvania
Some…

Prof. Michael Meyer, Katz Center Fellow; Hebrew Union College

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Germanic Languages & Literatures department.