CFP: Jewish Visual Culture Ph.D. Program Scholarship 2018/19
Scholarship Announcement 2018
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Research Query: Source of Mordecai Kaplan Quotation
Friends,
I have found the following quotation ascribed to Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionism, but have not been able to trace it to any published source:
“We short-circuit religion when we treat it as an affair between the individual and God. To function normally, the religious current connecting the individual with God must pass through the life of the people.”
Can anyone provide a source for this?
Jacob Adler
Philosophy Department
University of Arkansas
jadler@post.harvard.edu
Obituary: Prof. Howard Morley Sachar
H-Judaic is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Howard Morley Sachar (1928-2018), Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C, and one of the most widely-read Jewish historians of our time. His THE COURSE OF MODERN JEWISH HISTORY (1959) educated a whole generation of American Jews and his A HISTORY OF ISRAEL was likewise a pioneering contribution. Prof. Sachar's daughter, Michele Sachar, has produced the following necrology, which we reprint from the FORWARD website:
Research Query: Great Assembly/Anshe Kennesset HaGedolah
The Talmud takes goes to great length to establish the number of members of the Sanhedrin HaGadol (70 or 71). That institution not only served as a High Court but also as a Legislature that enacted various types of laws and regulations. I have not found a serious discussion of (1) why there was either a special need or a special legal dispensation to create the separate, apparently legislative, institution known as the Great Assembly/Anshe Kennesset HaGedolah rather than relying on the institution of the Sanhedrin HaGadol; or (2) if a separate institution was desired, why it was created w
Query: American Jewish student experiences in Israel, 1967-73, survey
I am at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati on a research grant working on this topic. I hope to be publishing an article based on my student papers and other resources. I want to augment that with insights from an informal survey.
"Student" is defined broadly to include many post-high school experiences including gap-year programs, kibbutz programs, yeshivot, work/study programs such as WUJS or Sherut Le'Am as well as university study.
I am seeking responses from North Americans who were in israel on such long-term programs from 1967-1973.
Yad Vashem: New Free Online Course on Antisemitism
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March 19, 2018 to June 3, 2018
Final Call for Papers | Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence
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May 11, 2018
TOC Studia Judaica vol. 39
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