Tuesday, 11/2, 730pm: Karesh Annual Lecture with Dr. Tamar Sella on Modern Diaspora and Mizrahi Music.
This is a hybrid event with both in-person and online options. Click here to RSVP for attending in-person. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Dr. Tamar Sella, the first scholar selected to deliver the Stanley and Charlot Karesh Annual Lecture in Jewish Studies, is an ethnomusicologist. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to broadly investigate the intersections of performance, diaspora, and power. Dr. Sella will join us to discuss her current research which explores cultural memory and contemporary Mizrahi performance in order to illuminate how ongoing Jewish diasporic formations resist colonial and racial logics.
The Karesh Family Lecture is supported by the Stanley and Charlot Karesh Family Fund, an endowment given by the Karesh family in the Spring of 2015 in support of Jewish Studies’ community outreach programming. We are incredibly grateful for their support, and for their broad vision of K’lal Yisrael.
Thursday, 11/4, 11am: Jews of Color, Sephardim, and Diversity in America
This is an online event. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Who are Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews in America? And who are Jews of Color? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Mijal Bitton (Shalom Hartman Institute, New York) about diversity, liberalism, and politics as they pertain to non-Ashkenazi American Jews.
Monday, 11/8, 7:30pm: A conversation with Dahlia Scheindlin
This is a hybrid event with both in-person and online options. Click here to RSVP for attending in-person. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert and strategic consultant with twenty years of experience, specializing in liberal and progressive social causes. She has advised eight national campaigns in Israel and has worked in 15 other countries. Dr. Scheindlin conducts research and policy analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, regional foreign policy, democracy, human rights and civil rights, minority issues, religion and state, domestic political analysis, comparative conflict and comparative politics. She will share her thoughts about the current political climate in Israel and where it might lead.
Sponsored by the Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Center for Israel Studies.
Sunday, 11/14, 10am: Sister Scholars, Bais Yaakov and the Revolution in Orthodox Girls Education
This is a hybrid event with both in-person and online options. Click here to RSVP for attending in-person. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Dr. Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) will discuss the Orthodox girls' school system Bais Yaakov, founded in Krakow in 1917 by a seamstress named Sarah Schenirer, that continues to flourish today. The lecture will focus on the character of the school as "a revolution in the name of tradition," in which socialism and feminism were mobilized for the purposes of reviving Orthodoxy at a moment of great peril, when girls were leaving the traditional world in droves.
Brunch will be provided to in-person attendees at the Jewish Studies Center lobby from 9am.
Thursday, 11/18, 7:30pm: Defining Antisemitism: A Conversation with Kenneth Stern
This is an online event. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Kenneth Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, will talk about the competing definitions of antisemitism, particularly the IHRA definition for which he served as primary author. Mr. Stern will discuss his thoughts about the legislation built around the IHRA definition and his perspective on the best ways for colleges and universities to protect students while nurturing an open environment for exploring and challenging ideas with full academic freedom.
Sponsored by the Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Center for Israel Studies.
Sunday, 11/28, 4-6pm: Chanukah in the Square at Marion Square Park
Chanukah in the Square returns to downtown Charleston with our seventeenth annual celebration, sponsored by the Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Foundation with supplemental support from the City of Charleston. Once again the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program will team up with Chabad of Charleston and the Lowcountry, the City of Charleston’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and many of our local Jewish organizations.
Chanukah in the Square is a wonderful, family-friendly way to come together as a community. Our local Holocaust survivors will continue the tradition of lighting the menorah candles. Please plan on being there with your neighbors, friends, and family. Bring an appetite and your dancing shoes. We will supply the hot food, the live music, and the festive atmosphere! As in past years, there will be no shortage of potato latkes.
Tuesday, 11/30, 7:30pm: Charleston Jewish FilmFest presents "They Ain't Ready for Me"
This is an online event. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Tamar Manasseh, an African American rabbinical student, leads the fight against senseless killings in Chicago’s south side. With her magnetic personality, she helps the neighborhood believe that people care whether they live or die. After the film, meet Tamar and Director Brad Rothschild via Zoom. Click here to watch the trailer.
Sponsored by the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, the Stanley Farbstein Endowment Fund, and the Charleston JCC Foundation.
Sunday, 12/05, 10am: A Conversation with Shaul Magid
This is a hybrid event with both in-person and online options. Click here to RSVP for attending in-person. Click here to register for the Zoom event.
Professor Shaul Magid (Dartmouth College) visits the College of Charleston to discuss his new book Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thoughts of an American Jewish Radical. His book sheds new light on the controversial figure of Meir Kahane, an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival. Kahane became one of the most influential Jewish thinkers and activists of the last half century, and has left a lasting impact in America and Israel.
Brunch will be provided to in-person attendees at the Jewish Studies Center lobby from 9am.
Sponsored by the Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Center for Israel Studies.
