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In August 2024, Eyal Rivlin was promoted to Teaching Professor. In the summer of 2024, The Nonbinary Hebrew Project, cofounded by Lior Gross and Eyal Rivlin, was selected as a grant recipient of the Rise Up Initiative - Nurturing the Soul of Jewish Justice. As the their mission states, 鈥淩ise...

Professor Brian Catlos' book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (NYC: Basic, 2018) is being translated into Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and simplified Chinese in 2024.

Professor Samira Mehta was recently interviewed by NPR to discuss how, for the first time, the largest branch in American Judaism has agreed to ordain rabbis who are in interfaith marriages. Listen to the interview and read the transcript here.

Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently published a piece in a special issue of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Abstract By late 1941, some 1,300 Jews had escaped from National Socialist-controlled Europe to the Philippines. This essay problematizes the existing historiography on this rescue by going beyond examinations of its...

Professor Brian Catlos received a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on his project An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, a culmination of his scholarship to date showing when, how and why members of these three faith communities鈥攚hich hail from Africa, the Middle East...

Professor Mehta's latest piece in The Forward talks about how a major Jewish denomination鈥檚 main seminary will admit and ordain students in interfaith relationships. "The majority of new Jewish marriages are interfaith; these couples are raising interfaith families. But despite that, few rabbis have personal experience in interfaith nuclear families,...

Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there鈥檚 a vast landscape of Jewish cultures around the world鈥攁nd represented in the U.S. The diversity of American Jews is a major focus Mehta's research, both through her current project, Jews of Color: Histories and Futures...

Professor Samira Mehta discusses how words like 鈥渟acred,鈥� 鈥渆nsoulment,鈥� 鈥渕other,鈥� and 鈥渂aby鈥� have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy. Listen to the podcast here.

"May is both Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month. Two entirely separate commemorations for two entirely separate communities, right? Think again. Not only do Asian American Jews exist, but we come from a variety of places and come to Judaism in a...

The Know Your Nosh exhibit: Exploring the significance of food in Jewish identity As part of the university鈥檚 Embodied Judaism Series, the exhibit explores the role of food and agriculture within Jewish cultural, national and political identities. It also uses food to delve into the connection between the United States,...