SAN DIEGO — All Times Are Pacific Daylight Time
Sunday, October 4
10 a.m. Moshe Halbertal and Eva Illouz, “Can Home Be a Shelter in Times of Pandemic?” The Reading Room, National Library of Israel.
Monday, October 5
8:30 a.m. Yossi Beilin and Ido Aharoni, “The Future of Middle East Peace,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
10 a.m.. David Kraemer, “Anticipating Death and Finding Satisfaction in Life: The Profound Wisdom of Kohelet,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
2 p.m. Abigail Gillman and Michael Brenner, “Moses Mendelsohn’s Afterlives and the Invention of Modern Jewish Memory,” Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
4 p.m. Holli Levitsky, Victoria Aarons, and Phyllis Lassner, Discussion of “Run Boy Run, directed by Pepe Danquart,” The Betsy Hotel, Florida International University, and the Jewish American Holocaust and Literature Association.
Tuesday, October 6
9 a.m. Eviatar Matania, “From Checkpoint to Waze: Israel as a Cyber Tiger,” Center for Jewish Civilization of Georgetown University.
11 a.m. Daniel Lee, “The SS Officer’s Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m.. John McManus, “Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany,” Holocaust Center for Humanity and Pacific Lutheran University.
1:30 p.m. Jonathan Wiesen, “From Birmingham to Berlin: Racial Terror Lynching and Public Violence in the United States and Germany,” Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, Stockton University.
4 p.m. Henry Greenspan, “The Road not Taken with Holocaust Survivors: Deepening Conversation versus One-Time Testimony” Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University
4 p.m. Mika Ahuvia, “The History of Judaism and Anti-Judaism as Ideology,” Stroum Center of Jewish Studies of the University of Washington.
4 p.m. Nan Rich, Richard Scher, Daniel Smith, and Kenneth Wald, “Election 2020: Florida and the Jewish Vote in an Era of Crisis,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida.
4 p.m. Gaith al-Omari, Daniel Kurtzer, David Makovsky, and Saliba Sarsar, “Keeping the Door Open to Israeli-Palestinian Peace,” Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, Michigan State University.
5 p.m. Rowan Dorin, “Jews and Moneylending in the Middle Ages: Myths Old and New,” Department of Jewish Studies of San Francisco State University,
6 p.m. Maggid Alon, “Between Fauda and Shtisel,” Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois.
7:30 p.m. Bradley Artson, “Almighty? No Way! Embracing the God You Already Love,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Wednesday, October 7
6:30 a.m. Alejandra Morales Stekel, “Bold Actions that Led to Refuge in Latin America,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
7 a.m. Ziony Zevit, “The Biblical Past Ain’t What It Used to Be,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
10 a.m.. Moshe Halbertal, “The Biblical Book of Samuel and the Birth of Politics: Two Faces of Political Violence,” Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Wisconsin.
10 a.m. Miriam Udel, Naomi Seidman, and Jennifer Young, “Yiddish Children’s Literature Today,” YIVO.
10 a.m. Roey Victoria Heifetz, “Third Body,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Texas.
10 a.m Zumret Dawut and Rushan Abbas, “History Repeating: The Forced Labor and Genocide of the Uyghurs,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
10 a.m. Scott Johnson, “It’s All Syriac to Me: The Most Important Language You’ve Never Heard About,” Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma.
2 p.m. Tsahi Halevi discusses his film Mossad! Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University.
2:30 p.m. Jeffrey Rosen and Dahlia Lithwick, “Conversations with RBG,” Jewish Book Council.
3 p.m. Laurie Pearce, “Piercing the Puzzle, Shaping the Scholarship: Judeans in the Babylonian Exile,” Middle Eastern Studies of University of Texas.
5 p.m. “Dwelling and Travelling” [Film about Baghdadi Jews], Jewish Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Thursday, October 8
9:30 a.m.. Alma Hernandez, Analucía Lopezrevoredo, Elías Rosenfeld, Eddie Chavez Calderon, “Wandering Jews and LatinX Migrations,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
10 a.m.. Eitan Fishbane, “Soul, Body, and Reincarnation in the Kabbalah,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
10 a.m. Moshe Halbertal, “Is a Democratic Jewish State Possible?” Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Wisconsin.
11 a.m. Katarzyna Person and Paweł Śpiewak, “The Legacy of Oneg Shabbat and the Ringelblum’s Archive,” Jewish Historical Institute and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
11 a.m. Aron Bell, Henryka Bell, Assi Weinstein (née Bielski) and Tamara Vershitskaya, “Resistance In Belarus: The Bielski Partisans And Today,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. Bruce Haynes, “Judaism and the Black Experience,” UC Davis Jewish Studies Program.
12:30 p.m. Samuel Gruber, “Arise and Build: American Synagogues and Jewish Identity,” Orange Country Community Scholar Program,
12:30 p.m. Nissim Black, “From Gangs to God: The Evolution of Nissim Black,” American Jewish University.
1 p.m. Ousmane Power-Greene, Carl Suddler, and Anne Gray Fischer, “Race, Racism, and Policing: A Long History.”
3:30 p.m. Alice Hoffman, “The Spell She Casts,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
4 p.m. Marc Dollinger, “Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s,” Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program College of Charleston.
4:30 p.m. Robert Jan van Pelt, “Against All Odds: Armed Resistance in Auschwitz,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
5 p.m. Amy Spitalnick, “Charlottesville and the Case against White Supremacy,” Holocaust Museum LA.
Friday, October 9
7:30 a.m.. Benjamin Nathans, “Refuseniks and Rights Defenders: Jews, Rights, and the Soviet Dissident Movement,” Judaic Studies Program, George Washington University.