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“The Second Conversation” Book Launch

Brandeis University

The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom In person at Brandeis University (3:30-5:00 pm ET) and via Zoom (3:30-4:15 pm ET) A discussion, reception, and book signing with Ziva Hassenfeld (Brandeis University), author of The Second Conversation: Interpretive Authority in the Bible Classroom. This book is part of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish […]

Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino at Brookline Booksmith

Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA

In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Mazaltob with translators Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino. Register for the event! RSVP to let us know you're coming! Depending on the volume of responses, an RSVP may be required for entrance to the event. You will also be alerted to important details about the program, […]

Mazaltob: Sephardi Women in Translation

Vilna Shul 18 Phillips St, Boston, MA

Join us for a book launch celebration and discussion featuring translators/editors Frances Malino and Dr. Yaëlle Azagury and moderated by Jonathan Decter. Mazaltob, by Blanche Bendahan, is a fascinating portrait of a young Moroccan Sephardi woman as she navigates the ever-shifting ground between tradition and modernity, East and West, self and other, obligation and desire. Stylistically […]

$18

The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America

Suffolk University Commons 120 Tremont St, Boston, MA

  Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting the Black attorney Landsmarck with the American flag. The photograph shocked Boston and made front pages across the U.S. and the world and won a Pulitzer Prize. Masur has […]

Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková

Zoom

Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at […]

Spring Songbirds Workshop with Derek Lovitch

Evergreen Cemetery Stevens Ave, Portland, Maine

Spring Songbirds Workshop Portland, 7–11 a.m. Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in environmental policy from Rutgers University, he worked in avian research and education projects in nine states, from New Jersey to Hawaii, Florida to Michigan. He also spent three summers […]

$85

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn at Next Stage Arts

Next Stage Arts 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, Vermont

The Landmark Trust USA (LTUSA) invites the community to learn more about one of our region’s most distinctive architectural typologies, one that many northern New Englanders call home: the connected farm building. On Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m., LTUSA will host noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to speak on his […]

Birdwatching in Maine at the Jay-Niles Memorial Library

Jay-Niles Memorial Library 983 Main St, Jay, Maine

Join Derek J. Lovitch, editor of Birdwatching in Maine: The Complete Site Guide, in person July 11th at the Jay-Niles Memorial Library.   About the Book With over 470 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards […]

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn at Wescustogo Hall

Wescustogo Hall and Community Center 120 Memorial Highway, North Yarmouth, Maine

Prof. Thomas Hubka, author of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England, will present a lively, richly illustrated presentation on Thursday, May 16. Admission is free; donations accepted. Big House Little House has “the suspense of a detective story and at times the poignance of deeply felt, sympathetic, […]

Environmental Futures: A Conversation with Caren Irr and Beth Daley

Zoom

Join us on Zoom for a special webinar with Dr. Caren Irr, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University and of editor of Environmental Futures: An International Literary Anthology. Professor Irr will be joined in conversation by Executive Editor of The Conversation US Beth Daley. The talk will be followed by an […]

Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field

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Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field A conversation with Sivan Zakai (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) and Matt Reingold (TanenbaumCHAT), editors of Teaching Israel: Studies of Pedagogy from the Field. This book will be published by the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education in the spring of 2024 and available for purchase from […]

Rangeley Birding Workshop with Derek Lovitch

Bald Mountain Camps

Rangeley Birding Workshop Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in environmental policy from Rutgers University, he worked in avian research and education projects in nine states, from New Jersey to Hawaii, Florida to Michigan. He also spent three summers as a […]

$800

How and Why the State of Israel Was Formed with Jehuda Reinharz

Zoom

Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis University President Emeritus, and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History, will lead a virtual course on how and why the state of Israel was formed. What concerns and influences helped shape the establishment of Israel? Jehuda Reinharz, Brandeis University President Emeritus, and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and author […]

$25

Summer Shorebirds Workshop with Derek Lovitch

Scarborough, ME Park & Ride Lot, Payne Road

Summer Shorebirds Workshop Scarborough to Biddeford, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Instructor Bio Derek Lovitch has made a career out of his lifelong passion for birds. After graduating with a degree in […]

$175