Monday, October 28, 2024, 6 – 8 p.m. Book Launch: Joy Ladin on What We Make of Who We Are: Jewish, Trans, and Family Identities
Friday, November 1, 2024, 12 – 1:30 p.m. Aleksandra Szczepan, “Intimate Cartographies: Mapping Jewish Eastern Europe in Yizker-Bikher”
Monday, December 2, 2024, 6 – 8 p.m. Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, “A Living Tradition: Jewish Ritual Responses to COVID and October 7th”
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 3 – 5 p.m. Three in One: Tour of Three Exhibits at the Walsh Family Library
Thursday, January 23, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Holy Rebellion or Religious Egoism? The Achievements of Religious Zionist Feminism and the Rabbinic Illiberal Backlash in Israel
Wednesday, January 29, 5 – 6:30 p.m. Mauro Canali, “Follow the Oil: Italian Fascism and the Matteotti Murder”
Thursday, January 30, 10 a.m. – Friday, March 28, 5 p.m. “Henna, Love, and Light: Jewish Life and Art in Siona Benjamin’s India”
Sunday, February 2, 3 – 5 p.m. New Exhibit Opening: “Henna, Love, and Light: Jewish Life and Art in Siona Benjamin’s India”
Tuesday, February 4, 6:30 – 8 p.m. Matthias Henze, “It’s About Time: Time and the Sense of an Ending in Ancient Judaism”
Thursday, March 6, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. From Catalonia to Yemen: Hebrew Manuscript Fragments and Jewish Bookbindings in the NYPL and around the World with Leor Jacobi (Bar-Ilan University)
Thursday, March 27, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. Wisam Abughosh Chaleila, “Manifestations of Jerusalem in Palestinian and Israeli Poetry”
Wednesday, April 9, 12:30 – 2 p.m. Lecture & Lunch: Joshua Teplitsky on the Aftermath of Epidemics Among Jews of Early Modern Europe
Thursday, April 10, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Lecture: “The Tangibility of the Secret: A Mystical View of the Senses”
Tuesday, April 22, 7 – 9:30 p.m. Filming Words–Nurith Aviv Retrospective: Screenings and Conversations, Day 1
Tuesday, April 22, 7 p.m. – Friday, April 25, 2 p.m. Filming Words, A Retrospective of Nurith Aviv’s Films: Screenings and Conversations
Friday, April 25, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Filming Words – Nurith Aviv: Screenings and Conversations, Day 4
Monday, April 28, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Adam Farkas, “Oral Histories of the Soviet Jewish Diaspora in the US, 1973 – 1980”
Monday, May 5, 1 – 2:30 p.m. ‘After: Poetry Destroys Silence’—Virtual Film Screening and Conversation
Thursday, May 8, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Lecture: “Bringing ‘Tikkun Olam’ to the South: New York Jews in the Civil Rights Movement”
