Streaming Jewish Programs (Dec. 6-12, 2020)

SAN DIEGO — Following are streaming Jewish programs of academic and general interest from Sunday, Dec. 6, through Friday, Dec. 11. All times are Pacific Standard Time. If a link doesn’t work by clicking, try pasting it in your browser

Sunday, December 6

8 am Ayelet Gundar-Goshen interviewed, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning, A Conversation with Author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | Spertus

9 am Elliot Chodoff, “Gaza Strip: Hamas Rule and the Ramifications for Israel,” Honest Reporting, Webinar: Understanding Hamas-ruled Gaza & Israel’s Strategic Reality | HonestReporting

10 am Menachem Bombach,”Heder to Hub: Innovation in Ultra-Orthodox Education,” Menachem Begin Heritage Center, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thought-you-knew-jerusalem-think-again-tickets-125855263481?fbclid=IwAR1tkJ4WHHqOB9exOVG8oVKdr1qYVannPPsOmEIM-3gFQTFfFbKshpp-Nn0

10 am Devin Naar, Rachel Amado Bortnik, and Carlos Yebra López, “Revolutionizing Ladino: From the Printing Press to the Smartphone,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, 12/6 | Ladino Day 2020 — Revolutionizing Ladino: From the Printing Press to the Smartphone – UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies (washington.edu)

10 am Avi Nesher, “Rage and Glory: The Restoration of an Israeli Controversy,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, tinyurl.com/avinesher

10 am-1 pm (1-4 PM on December 7-10) Conference on “Di Linke: The Yiddish Immigrant Left from the Popular Front until the Cold War,” Jewish Studies Program, Cornell University, Webinar Registration – Zoom

11 am Israel Philharmonic, “Pre-Hanukah Global Celebration,” American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic – Pre-Hanukkah Global Celebration (afipo.org)

11 am Christa Whitney, “The Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project,” Yiddish Book Center, Webinar Registration – Zoom

11 am Michelle Cohen Farber, “Human Margin of Error and its Effects on Jewish Law,” Reading Room, National Library of Israel, https://nlisrael.typeform.com/to/B3pBAONi_gl=1*13mrzqx*_ga*ODA0NzcwNTYxLjE2MDY4ODA1NjI.*_ga_8P5PPG5E6Z*MTYwNjg4MDU2MS4xLjEuMTYwNjg4MTE3OC42MA..&_ga=2.209914192.438791755.1606880562-804770561.1606880562

11 am Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, “The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently,” Parnassus Books, https://www.parnassusbooks.net/event/virtual-event-conversation-amy-jill-levine-and-marc-zvi-brettler-authors-bible-and-without

11 am Tom Tielen, “My Heart is in the East…Financial support for Eretz Israel from the farthest West,” Sephardic World, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83684272950

12 pm Nils Roemer, “Sephardic Jews and the Third Reich,” Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsdOiorTwvH9DqUFUJlsL2PzgmotTDctTS

12 pm Peter Geffen, “Why Did Jews Leave Morocco If Things Were So Good?” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://mailchi.mp/fe7a1d5095ac/csp-zoom-programs-week-of-april-5-4543268

12 pm E. Randol Schoenberg, “Woman in Gold,” Scottish Jewish Archives Center, Speaker Event December 2020 – The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre

1 pm Ariel Burger, “Lessons from Elie Wiesel for Today,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, https://18161.blackbaudhosting.com/18161/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=3b0d5501-af82-425e-8b58-41b1802d7a6b

1 pm Joanne Gilbert and Anne Nelson, “Women of Valor-Stories of Resistance in Paris,” Sousa Mendes Foundation, Upcoming Events Virtual program: Women of Valor — Stories of Resistance in Paris – Sousa Mendes Foundation 4 pm

1 pm Alfred Uhry, “Reflections on Jews Race and Religion in the South in His Plays,” Breman Museum, Janice Rothschild Blumberg Lecture Keynote Speaker: Alfred Uhry (thebreman.org)

4 pm Neil Lazarus and Rudy Rochman, “Combating Antisemitism During the Pandemic,” Yeshiva University, answers@yu.edu

4 pm Brad Roth, Huwaida Arraf, and Fred Pearson, “Is the Two State Solution Dead?” Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcOyqqD8sEtTN0pheNtrUBK_xJPsfyBSI

5 pm Jason Isbell, Rafe Pearlman,and Ifetyaho and Ali-Landing, “In Concert Against Hate,” Anti-Defamation League, PreConcert | ADL Concert

Monday, December 7

7:30-11 am Conference on 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-Speaking Lands. Leo Baeck Institute, Shared History Conference – Leo Baeck Institute (lbi.org)

10 am Donna Karan and David Kassman, “The Spiderman Project,” American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/byachad-together/events/Talking-Spiderman-Donna-Karan–Kassman

10:30 am Edna Friedberg, “Trauma and Testimony in an Oversharing Society,” Jewish Theological Seminary, http://www.jtsa.edu/trauma-and-testimony-in-an-oversharing-society

12 pm Lisa Goldstein, “Chanukah: Cultivating Courage for Righteous Action,” Valley Beit Midrash, https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/event/chanukah-cultivating-courage-for-righteous-action/

1 pm Mira Siegelberg and Mary Dudziak, “Statelessness: A Modern History,” National History Center, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WDPmN58LTnuKdxO2b8FBLg

3:30 pm Saul Zerritt, “Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody,” Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University, Book Talk — Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody | Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (wustl.edu)

4:30 pm Mel Scult, “Mordecai Kaplan and the 1940s,” Jewish Theological Seminary Library, http://www.jtsa.edu/communings-of-the-spirit-mel-scult

5:30 pm Song Lihong, “Trauma and Transcendence: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_brAA3a7e79Sj6D3

Tuesday, December 8

4:30-11 am Conference on 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-Speaking Lands. Leo Baeck Institute, Shared History Conference – Leo Baeck Institute (lbi.org)

9 am Yitzhak Benbaji, “The Ethics of War,” Shalom Hartman Institute, https://www.hartman.org.il/event/the-ethics-of-war/?timestamp=1607428800

11 am Gali Cooks, Joan Garry, and Rick Jacobs, “Innovate or Die: How Jewish Nonprofit Leadership Weathered 2020 and Is Leaning into 2021, The Forward, Webinar Registration – Zoom

11 am Janice Mautner Markham, and accordionist, Melinda West, “Klezmer, Culture, and Art: Virtual Concert Inspired by David Labkovski and Sholem Aleichem,” Holocaust Museum LA, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pFOWdz93Qg2bG7D_l7Ez1g
12 pm Agi Day, “Hidden in Hungary: My Survival Story,” Holocaust Center for Humanity, Holocaust Center for Humanity Lunch-and-Learn Registration (google.com)

12:30 pm Daniel Libenston, “Judaism Unbound: A Deep Dive into Digital Judaism,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://mailchi.mp/924641ba76c6/csp-zoom-programs-week-of-april-5-4554876

3:30 pm Michael Waltzer, “Arguing about Immigration,” Hebrew Union College, http://huc.edu/registration-huc-connect-online-learning

4 pm Mikhal Dekel and Arash Azizi, “The Tehran Children: Rediscovering Iran’s Role in Holocaust Rescue,” https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/VETEHRCHILDPPG1220

4 pm Daniel Bessner, “Exiles from Nazi Germany and the Making of the US National Security State,” Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz, Nuremberg Trials of Nazi Physicians Medical Ethics,” Niko Switek, “The Antisemitism and Extremism of the Alternative for Germany Party, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/2020-course-lecture-series-lessons-not-learned-from-the-holocaust/?#december8/

4:30 pm Chana Stiefel, “From Stern to Scholastic: A Journey in Children’s Publishing,” Yeshiva University, https://www.yu.edu/events/all?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D475020230

5 pm Amy Kalmanofsky, “The Breakable Queen Jezebel-The Making and Breaking of the Bible’s Greatest Villain,” Jewish Theological Seminary, http://www.jtsa.edu/the-breakable-queen-jezebel

5 pm Myra Stober, “Sharing the Work,” Jewish Women’s Archive, https://jwa.org/events

5 pm Chaim Seidler-Feller, “On the Radical Reframing of the Chanukah Miracle: From Military Victory to the Light of Peace,” Seidler-Feller Institute for Jewish Learning, Hillel at UCLA, https://www.uclahillel.org/rabbichaimchanukah2020

5 pm Beth Cohen and Atina Grossman, “Holocaust Memory in the Postwar World,” Dallas Holocaust Museum, Buy: Holocaust Memory in the Post-War Period (force.com)

6:30 pm Stephanie Deutsch and Julius Alexander McGee, “Julius Rosenwald,” Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Jewish Federation of Portland, and the Portland Chapter of the NAACP, Webinar Registration – Zoom

Wednesday, December 9
6:30 am-12 pm Conference on 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-Speaking Lands. Leo Baeck Institute, Shared History Conference – Leo Baeck Institute (lbi.org)

9 am Aviva Ben-Ur, “Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825,” American Sephardi Federation, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6316002534033/WN_juYMaMuYSOCV_evE1KZR-w?mc_cid=d7a562dbef&mc_eid=a9a90f049b

9:30 am Omer Bar-Tov, “Genocide from Below: Rewriting the Holocaust as First-Person Local History,” Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College, https://english.wgalil.ac.il/conversations-with-holocaust-researchers/

10 am Shalom Sabar, “From Cruse of Oil to Rifle Stock: The Changing Image of the Hanukkah Menorah,” https://mailchi.mp/81213ed80df5/csp-zoom-programs-week-of-april-5-4557668

10 am Ilana Kaufman, “Anti-Racism Webinar,” Valley Beit Midrash, Anti-Racism Webinar with Ilana Kaufman (valleybeitmidrash.org)

12 pm Jordan Finkin, “The Hybridity of Yiddish Civilization,” Hebrew Union College Library, HUC-JIR Library Lecture Series – Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

1:30 pm Alon Tam, “Nostalgia: Remembering the Jewish Community in Egypt,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, Nostalgia: Remembering the Jewish Community in Egypt — The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (columbia.edu)

2 pm Todd Gitlin, “The Pathos of Chosenness: Who Are the Jews if Not Exceptional?” Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, The Pathos of Chosenness: Who are the Jews if not Exceptional? | Wolf Humanities Center (upenn.edu)

3 pm Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, and Gamal Hela, “The Human Factor: Middle East Diplomacy in Action,” 92^nd Street Y, The Human Factor: Middle-East Diplomacy in Action – 92Y, New York

4 pm Daniel Heinrich, “Sabbath Breads from Around the World,” Vilna Shul, https://vilnashul.org/events/event/sabbath-breads-from-around-the-jewish-world-with-hoh-dec

4 pm Irene Shaland, “Global Response to the Holocaust: The Islands and the Boot,” Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage and Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center, https://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/event/globalresponse3/

4 pm Dr. LaNitra Berger, Marc Dollinger, and David Saperstein, “Shared Legacies: The African American-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance,” J x J Festival, https://www.jxjdc.org/events/panel-discussion-shared-legacies/fbclid=IwAR0cWUNNMDQQ068vvrEJ8lWUVAg78ycMj4GEsFFGDZswDhsSF6XcvSEDzwA

Thursday, December 10
6 am Vered Nissim and Sivan Shtang, “The Empire Shoots Back: From Survival Labor to Political Action in Mizrahi Feminist Video Art,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-vjmsapZKAaijhSAjmGPQ9ieg1UAaHO6yeEurZuZOO4_bJA/formResponse

8:30 am Ron Lashem, Amit Cohen, Ofer Hayoun, and Omer Perlman Striks, “Valley of Tears: An Intimidate Look at the 1973 War,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, VALLEY OF TEARS – The Streicker Center

8:30 am Rob Nossen, Boris Costellanos, and Alvaro Costellanos, “The Rescue: The Story of Arturo Costellanos,” Holocaust Museum and Cohen Education Center, The Luncheon 2020 | Holocaust Museum & Education Center (hmcec.org)

10 am Geoffrey Khan, “The Aramaic Speaking Jews of Iraq and Iran,” Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, The Aramaic-speaking Jews of Iraq and Iran | UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies – UCL – University College London

11 am Deborah Tannen and Maureen Corrigan, “Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw,” Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Finding My Father” Book Talk with Deborah Tannen and Maureen Corrigan : Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (mjhnyc.org)

11:30 am Chaya Gilboa, “Shine the Light: The Narratives of Hanukkah,” Leichtag Foundation, https://leichtag.org/event/shine-the-light-the-narratives-of-chanukah/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JLearnDecemberNewsletter&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=4217

12 pm Alon Aranya, “Israel TV Takes Center Stage,” American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/byachad-together/events/Israeli-TV-Takes-Center-Stage

12:30 pm Esther Kustanowitz, “TVGoneJewy: TV’s Jewish Renaissance,” Orange County Community Scholar Program,” https://mailchi.mp/857a24ea0a7a/csp-zoom-programs-week-of-april-5-4553472

2:30 pm Sam Gronner and Joseph Berger, “Loss and Legacy: The Half Century Quest to Reclaim a Birthright Stolen by the Nazis,” Leo Baeck Institute, https://www.lbi.org/events/loss-legacy/

Friday, December 11

12 pm Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi, “Displaying Oneself, Protecting Identity: The Shape of Hanukkah Lamps,” Magnes Museum, Displaying Identity, Protecting Oneself: (What do we learn from) The shape of Hanukkah lamps | The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (berkeley.edu)

12:30 pm Yale Strom, Playlist Chanukah: A Journey into the Musical Imagination of Yale Strom,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuc-mvrzoqHtMg6Q7JEhLxXHkDHw5CxzE4?utm_source=CSP&utm_campaign=d63b9445bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_03_04_55_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee28fcba1-d63b9445bf-362312771

Saturday, December 12

5 pm “Only in America: Copperfield and Houdini,” National Museum of American Jewish History, Only in America: Houdini and Copperfield – NMAJH

6:30 pm Dianne Ashton, “Hanukkah in America: A History,” Temple Emanu-El, San Diego, https://teesd.org/event/adult-ed-speaker-dianne-ashton-on-the-history-of-hanukkah-in-the-u-s/

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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.