Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair of Jewish Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Wolpe’s topic focused on the role that...
The Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience screened Make Me a King, a short film about Ari, a Jewish Drag King ostracized by their family, who clings to their hero – Pepi Littman, the first Jewish proto-Drag King, who performed in the early 20th...
Children of the Inquisition: Their Story Can Now Be Told reveals the stories of the families who were forced to convert to Catholicism or flee during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions (1478-1834) through the eyes of their contemporary descendants. Through these...
How did the residential summer camp become an integral part of American Jewish life? Is there something special about the relationship between Jews and camp? In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and...
The Lonely Child is a forthcoming feature documentary about a little-known Yiddish lullaby “Dos Elnte Kind” (The Lonely Child) written inside the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust. Over 75 years later, the daughter of the girl in the song – Alix Wall – goes on a...
