Major Issues in Contemporary Jewish Life
Lecture Series
Spring 2001
The Office of Jewish Affairs and the Center for Jewish Studies presented the following public lectures in conjunction with Prof. Jay Berkovitz' course, "Major Issues in Contemporary Jewish Life" (Judaic 394A).
“Jerusalem in Jewish and Islamic Thought:
The Religious Roots of the Conflict”
Tayeb El-Hibri (director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program)
and Jay Berkovitz (Judaic Studies)
2/6/01
“Medical Ethics: Jewish Legal Perspectives
on Separating Conjoined Twins”
Daniel Sinclair (professor of Jewish and Comparative Biomedical Law,
Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
2/13/01
“The Catholic Church, the Papacy, and the Holocaust”
Kenneth Stow (professor of Jewish history, University of Haifa, Israel)
2/27/01
“Jews and Blacks”
John Bracey, Jr. (Afro-American Studies)
and Maurianne Adams (Education)
3/6/01
“The Jews of Suriname, South America:
Slaves, Sugar, and Salvation in the New World”
Aviva Ben-Or (Judaic Studies)
4/3/01
“Jewish Feminism”
Judith Plaskow (professor of religion at Manhattan College;
and author of Standing Again at Sinai)
4/17/01
“The Challenges of Inter-Ethnic Collaboration at UMass”
Larry Goldbaum (director, Office of Jewish Affairs)
4/24/01
“Assimilationism in Hungary” (with film)
Catherine Portugese (Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies)
5/8/01
“Jewish Identity and Continuity in American Society”
Arnold Dashefsky (director of the Center for Judaic Studies
and Contemporary Jewish Life and professor of sociology
at the University of Connecticut, Storrs)
5/10/01
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