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...
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...
Considering the past thirty years of mainstream television, film, music, and celebrity culture in relation to entrenched Jewish sexual stereotypes and gendered expectations, this panel explores how American Jewish characters have been portrayed and how American Jewish...
Join us as we screen Unspoken (2024), a groundbreaking new feature film following Noam, a closeted Jewish teenager in a religious community who discovers that he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the...
Sabbath Queen is a provocative and awe-inspiring film about an Orthodox Israeli who embraces his queerness, moves to NYC, joins the radical fairies, becomes a drag queen and a rabbi, and uses drag and other theatrical practices toward his progressive activism on a...
