SAN DIEGO — Following are academic and popular programs of Jewish interest that will be available on the Internet Nov. 22-26. All times are Pacific Standard Time.
Sunday, November 22
8 am Yael Aronoff, Csaba Nikolenyi, and Daniel Kurtzer, “The Impact of the US Elections on US-Israeli Relations,”Serling Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies, Michigan State University, https://jsp.msu.edu/community-calendar/#event|the-impact-of-the-u-s-elections-on-u-s-israeli-relations|5514
9 am Yael Sela “Singing a Song of Zion: On Psalms as a Currency of Exile, Redemption, and Jewish National Consciousness,” Jewish Music Forum, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psalmody-through-the-ages-music-and-the-book-of-psalms-tickets-124310085813
10 am Mehnaz Afridi, “The Shoah through Muslim Eyes,” Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center, https://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/event/hornstein-lecture-2020/
10 am Lior Schillat, “Without the Facts, You’re Just Another Person with an Opinion: What the Data Really Tells Us About Jerusalem,” Menachem Begin Heritage Center, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thought-you-knew-jerusalem-think-again-tickets-125855263481?fbclid=IwAR1tkJ4WHHqOB9exOVG8oVKdr1qYVannPPsOmEIM-3gFQTFfFbKshpp-Nn0
11 am George Rishfeld, “Remarkable Stories from the Holocaust,” Breman Museum, https://www.thebreman.org/Events/11-22-2020-Bearing-Witness-George-Rishfeld-Poland
11 am Edith Lichtenstein Froehlig, Michael Luick-Thrams, and Donald Davis, “Safe Haven in Iowa: An Untold Story,” Sousa Mendes Foundation, http://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/safe-haven-in-iowa/
11 am Sidney Corcos, “Moroccan Sephardic Migration to England in the 19th Century,” Sephardic World, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89624186516
12 pm Paul Liptz, “South African Jews and Their Relationship to Israel,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucO-upzkoHtcswIPABH0kWLSbL5jC3IB1
1 pm Andrea Chalupa, “Remembering the Holodomor: Commemorating the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, https://18161.blackbaudhosting.com/18161/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=3215c747-b2f3-4b9a-9134-bf5e947eb35f
Monday, November 23
10 am Mychal Springer, “The Wholeness of a Broken Heart,” Jewish Theological Seminary, https://www.wizevents.com/register/register_add.php?sessid=11798&id=7549
10 am Elai Rettig, “A Quest for Peace,” Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University, https://jimes.wustl.edu/events/israel-center-lunch-learn-elai-rettig-quest-peace?d=2020-11-23
12 pm Chaim Seidler-Feller, “For in the Image of God Was Adam Created: Jewish Attitudes toward the ‘Other’: Xenophobic Bias vs. Expansive Inclusion in the Judaic Tradition,” Valley Beit Midrash and Congregation Or Tzion,” https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/event/for-in-the-image-of-god-was-adam-created-jewish-attitudes-to-the-other-xenophobic-bias-vs-expansive-inclusion-in-the-judaic-tradition/
4 pm Shari Rabin and Adam Domby, “Revisiting Southern Jewish History in 2020,” Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston, Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina and Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, https://cofc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrde-qqzspH93yK_CIhEEHP9_hxeBwjZp5?fbclid=IwAR1JjmD6YufLveV5yvME0-iqttgLjlx8c1L5xntWSzdgkhT9z52k4NRMcRA
Tuesday, November 24
8 am Ethan Katz and Maud Mandel, “Jews and Muslims in France,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://streicker.nyc/current-season/fall-2020/jews-and-muslims-in-france
9 am Yehuda Kurtzer and Tamara Cofman Wittes, “From Election to Inauguration and Beyond,” Hartman Institute and the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, https://www.hartman.org.il/event/from-election-to-inauguration-and-beyond/?timestamp=1606219200
9 am Yossi Alpher, “Israel and the Biden Administration,” Americans for Peace Now, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rnoZVRW9QVSa2sFJQ2WNxQ
10 am David Ellenson and Michael Marmur, “Thinking Jewish in a Changing America,” Hebrew Union College, http://huc.edu/registration-huc-connect-online-learning
11 am Lisa Gruenberg, “My City of Dreams,” Holocaust Museum LA, https://www.holocaustmuseumla.org/event-details/lisa-gruenberg-my-city-of-dreams-1
12 pm George Prochnik, “Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution,” American Jewish University, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S0mDEQcTQHGZRFCsCidBCQ
12 pm Eva Marie van Dam, “Resilience to Strength: My Mother’s Survival from Auschwitz,” Holocaust Center for Humanity, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUiBJWDkKibshNoJ0JgUdEtEEy1HMNVSdsaWzHtwamG03hFA/viewform
12:30 pm Avi Strausberg, “Modern Feminist Theology,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpfuGrqzsjE9NwB-lgV3a027nCPownNvvp
2 pm Tomek Kuncewicz and Maciek Zabierowski, “The Town Known as Auschwitz,” Museum of Jewish Heritage, https://898a.blackbaudhosting.com/898a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=53717101-c0b6-4f92-8541-c9a9de078182&_ga=2.180875491.57345791.1605546966-1823731166.1604342483
3 pm Ruth Tsoffar, Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman, “Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of California-Berkeley, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfE1nisIDbgrGKg3BhRPzXSWlA4Ecxeconra1Yaz6iyJWAPzw/viewform
4 pm Sasha Senderovich, “In the Bloodlands: History and Memory of the Holocaust in the USSR,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, https://events.uw.edu/event/0010b8d4-5173-4393-9209-ef5e8fff6d60/summary?rp=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
4:30 pm Paul Finkelman, “When Jews Were Tough Guys and Gals,” Gratz College, https://gratzcollege.formstack.com/forms/gratz_home_tough_guys
5 pm Chaim Seidler-Feller, “The Chanukah Story You Were Never Taught: What Really Happened 167-164 BCE,” Seidler-Feller Institute for Jewish Learning, Hillel at UCLA, https://www.uclahillel.org/rabbichaimchanukah2020
Wednesday, November 25
7 am Yosef Garfinkel, “The Evidence of the Bible as History,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://streicker.nyc/current-season/fall-2020/yosef-garfinkel
8 am Joyce Kamen, “Project Eternity Interviews of Holocaust Survivors,” Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center, https://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/event/joycekamen/
9 am Cedric Cohen-Skalli, “Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography,” American Sephardi Federation, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3216002531493/WN_hqVEzBMjT3mir5KtVyUUfg?mc_cid=35e2b74deb&mc_eid=a9a90f049b
10 am Michal Frenkel, “Negotiating One’s Identity: Ultra-Orthodox Women Integrate into Israeli Society,” American Friends of Hebrew University, https://huji.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__5ejzZqgSXqEO0Nx8azixw
10 am Judith Schlanger, “The Munich Talmud: a unique manuscript and its place in Jewish Book History,” Institute of Jewish Studies, University College of London, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/125545751723
Thursday, November 26
10 am Yaacov Yadgar, “Israel and the Jewish Question,” Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/israel-and-jewish-question-discussion-following-yaacov-yadgar-s-book-israel-s-jewish-identity
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Lawrence (Laurie) Baron, now retired, served as the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University. He served from 1988 to 2006 as director of SDSU’s Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. He was the founder in 1995 of the Western Jewish Studies Association.