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SUMMARY:Sabbath Queen Film Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Filmed over 21 years\, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel\, a queer bio-dad\, and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly\, God-optional\, artist-driven\, pop-up experimental congregation. Sabbath Queen joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual\, challenge patriarchy and supremacy\, champion interfaith love\, and stand up for peace. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century. \nSandi DuBowski is the director/producer of Sabbath Queen\, Trembling before G-D\, Tomboychik\, Producer of A Jihad for Love and co-producer of Budrus. His award-winning work has screened at Sundance\, Berlin\, Tribeca and Toronto Film Festivals. In 2020\, he was invited to become a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. \nBrett Krutzsch\, a scholar of religion and LGBTQ politics in the United States\, is the associate director of the Center for Religion and Media at NYU and editor of its award-winning online magazine\, The Revealer.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/sabbath-queen-film-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anne Golomb Hoffman Memorial Lecture: "Psychoanalyzing American Jews"
DESCRIPTION:“Psychoanalyzing American Jews: Max Weinreich\, YIVO\, and the Yiddish Unconscious” \nIt is well known that Max Weinreich\, co-founder of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research\, produced a psychoanalytic study of Polish Jewish youth. \nThis lecture by Naomi Seidman (with response by Seth Aronson\, PsyD) will focus rather on his never-published psychoanalysis of American Jews in their relation to YIVO and Yiddish\, which he spoke of as the “collective unconscious” of the Jewish American psyche. \nNaomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department for the Study of Religion and the director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of five books and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. \nSeth Aronson\, Psy.D. is fellow\, director of admissions\, and training and supervising analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is program chair for the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings and on the faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/anne-golomb-hoffman-memorial-lecture-psychoanalyzing-american-jews/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T163000
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Opening: “Oy\, Joy! Can We Talk About (Jewish) Joy?”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, October 15 at 4:30 p.m. for the opening of a new exhibition at Fordham’s Walsh Family Library\, “Oy\, Joy! Can We Talk About (Jewish) Joy?” This exhibit explores these themes through the work of modern artists and historical artifacts from Fordham’s Special Collections. We bring together in conversation works of artists Maira Kalman\, Deborah Kass\, Jacqueline Kott-Wolle\, Simone Levy Greenwood\, Holly Markhoff\, ES23\, and Nina Talbot\, along with the textile art of Sharon and Jerry Goldberg.  \nIn a world filled with pain and suffering\, tormented by wars\, climate crisis\, pandemics\, and disruption\, is it possible to talk about joy? Is it even appropriate? Yet\, in the most difficult times\, there is also a deep need for joy. As Maya Angelou once said\, “We need joy as we need air.” \nSpeaking of joy does not mean disregarding sadness and pain. In fact\, joy and pain often go together. In Jewish tradition\, joy is very frequently tied to mourning and suffering. There is often an “Oy\, vey” aspect in an experience of joy. Sometimes someone’s joy clashes with someone else’s suffering and pain. Sometimes joy is an act of resistance. Sometimes joy is a manifestation of resilience and recovery. \nThe featured speaker will be Erez DeGolan\, PhD\, who will give a talk “Joy Vey: Can We Talk about Ancient Jewish Joy?”exploring the topic of joy in Jewish tradition. Drawing on ancient rabbinic thought\, this opening talk explores the heights and dangers of Jewish joy—and asks how joy and sorrow can coexist in a single shared experience. \nErez DeGolan is an assistant professor of classical rabbinic Judaism in Fordham’s theology department. His research and teaching combine textual\, historical\, and critical methods to examine the lived experience of rabbis in late antiquity. \nThe opening will be hosted by Amy Levine-Kennedy and Magda Teter. \nThe exhibit was curated by Erez DeGolan\, Amy Levine-Kennedy\, and Magda Teter. It is made possible by the Hadassah Ruth Weiner Fund for Jewish Art at Fordham\, the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Collection Endowment.  \n“Oy\, Joy!” will be on view at the Walsh Family Library on the 4th floor in the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room and in the Special Collections and Archives from October 15\, 2026\, through February 2027.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/exhibit-opening-oy-joy-can-we-talk-about-jewish-joy/
LOCATION:O’Hare Special Collections Room\, Walsh Library\, 441 East Fordham Road\, Bronx\, NY\, 10458\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts at Fordham,Cultural,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Workshop: "Building a Knowledge Graph of Classical Rabbinic Literature"
DESCRIPTION:A knowledge graph represents relationships among people\, texts\, places\, concepts\, and other entities as a network. Classical rabbinic literature\, composed approximately between 70 and 600 CE and including the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds\, contains a dense web of such relationships: texts cite and interpret other texts; rabbis cite one another and appear in groups and chains of transmission; and people and passages are connected to places\, legal questions\, and broader topics. \nThis workshop will describe how we are using artificial intelligence and other digital tools to build a knowledge graph of this literature\, how the graph can be used\, and its potential to open new avenues of research in the field. \nMichael L. Satlow is professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University. He specializes in the history of Jews and Judaism in antiquity. His most recent books are An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity and How the Bible Became Holy. He is the founder and director of the “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” project\, a digital corpus of ancient inscriptions from the region\, and is now working with a research team in Israel on creating a networked approach to all of rabbinic literature. He has held fellowships from the NEH\, ACLS\, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Fulbright program\, among others.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/workshop-building-a-knowledge-graph-of-classical-rabbinic-literature/
LOCATION:O’Hare Special Collections Room\, Walsh Library\, 441 East Fordham Road\, Bronx\, NY\, 10458\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sliding Doors: Exploring Transitions as Threshold Moments
DESCRIPTION:Completion of this class will result in the receipt of two (2) continuing education hours. \nThe mission and values of social workers practicing in healthcare and palliative care can be overshadowed in systems where administrative pressures\, changing health status and evolving goals invite or force transitions of varied kinds: from health to illness; from one setting to another; and from life to death. Transitions impact patients and families and often staff\, many of whom have not contributed to these decisions. Transitions can also reflect inequity and biases\, often unrecognized yet contributing to clinician distress and unarticulated harms. \nThe goal of this class is to explore the therapeutic opportunities implicit in the pivotal moments in transitions. We will use the diagnoses of cancer and dementia and the intensive care and hospice settings to discuss the opportunities and challenges faced during varied transitions\, \nAs social workers\, we participate in and translate systems issues to patients and families and deepen these discussions with colleagues by sharing information about the history\, culture and needs of individual patients and families that brings unique meaning to transitions. We will present transitions as part of the larger tapestry of patient\, family\, and clinician experience where we might see therapeutic opportunities that change transitions from an event\, chosen or not\, to a threshold experience of meaning. \nWe will integrate Aaron Antonovsky’s theory of coherence\, and Milton Erickson’s therapeutic messaging as useful constructs to offer additional structure and clinical awareness to how we view and engage with transitions and introduce cognitive transformation and response shift as constructs that complicate and enrich care over time.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/sliding-doors-exploring-transitions-as-threshold-moments/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Enchanted World by Michael Satlow
DESCRIPTION:An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious World of Late Antiquity\, a talk by Michael Satlow with respondents Shai Secundo and Cristiana Sogno \nIn Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE)\, the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary people\, religion was not found in temples\, synagogues\, and churches\, but in lived experience as they interacted with the supernatural in a world of uncertainty and danger. The lecture offers a new account of religion in Late Antiquity—one centered less on institutions and theological divisions than on lived experience\, shared fears\, and common hopes. \nMichael L. Satlow is professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University. He specializes in the history of Jews and Judaism in antiquity. His most recent books are An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity and How the Bible Became Holy. He is the founder and director of the “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine” project\, a digital corpus of ancient inscriptions from the region\, and is now working with a research team in Israel on creating a networked approach to all of rabbinic literature. He has held fellowships from the NEH\, ACLS\, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Fulbright program\, among others. \nShai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College. He received a bachelor’s degree from Ner Israel Rabbinical College\, a master’s from Johns Hopkins University\, and an MA/PhD from Yeshiva University. He is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Talmud in its Sasanian Context (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2014) and The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context (Oxford University Press\, 2020). His work uses philological analysis of the Talmud—the work which sits at the center of the classical Jewish canon—to reveal the rich cultural and religious worlds of late antique Babylonian Jewry and their neighbors in Sasanian Iran\, especially the Zoroastrians. He has also published widely on Jewish studies scholarship and contemporary culture in the Jewish Review of Books\, where he is a contributing editor. \nCristiana Sogno is a professor in the Department of English at Fordham University. Her research and teaching interests center on letter-writing\, biography\, and the reception and adaptation of Greek and Latin texts. She holds a BA from the Università degli Studi di Torino and a PhD from Yale University. Professor Sogno is the author of Q. Aurelius Symmachus: A Political Biography (Ann Arbor\, 2006) and has written extensively about letter-writing and late antique letter collections. She is currently working on a biographical study of Serena\, one of the Theodosian imperial women.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/book-launch-enchanted-world-by-michael-satlow/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261026T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "Discourse of American Yiddish Holocaust Education"
DESCRIPTION:“In the Teachers’ Lounge With the Unthinkable: The Pedagogical Discourse of American Yiddish Holocaust Education” \nLecture by Miriam Udel (Fordham-NYPL Fellow) \nThis talk will examine the Yudl Mark’s Pedagogisher buleten and related periodicals as sources for understanding how the events of the Holocaust were presented to children in the American Yiddish after-schools during and shortly after the war. \nMiriam Udel is Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture at Emory University\, where she has recently completed a term as Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. She holds an AB in Near Eastern languages and civilizations and a PhD in comparative literature\, both from Harvard University. She was ordained in 2019 as part of the first cohort of the Executive Ordination Track at Yeshivat Maharat\, a program designed to bring qualified mid-career women into the Orthodox Jewish rabbinate. \nUdel is the author of Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (University of Michigan Press)\, winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. She is the editor and translator of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature (NYU Press\, 2020)\, winner of the Judaica Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her 2025 critical study\, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature\, won last year’s National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity. Udel’s translation of Chaver Paver’s 1935 story collection about the adventures of a lovable proletarian mutt became the basis for Theater Emory’s 2021 puppet film Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup; her full translation of the stories will appear in January with the Excelsior Editions imprint at SUNY Press. \nHer ongoing research looks to children’s literature and culture as a powerful force for political and ethical formation and a resource for the intergenerational transmission of culture\, values\, and ideology. She is spending 2026-27 as the NYPL-Fordham Research Fellow in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://now.fordham.edu/event/lecture-discourse-of-american-yiddish-holocaust-education/
LOCATION:Lincoln Center Campus\, McMahon Rm 109\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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