Alex Green

Sunday, March 3 11 am – 1 pm “The Role of Unity in Judaism” Annual Rabbi Heschel Greenberg Lecture Musical Pre-Purim Schpiel with Max Seligman and the Freilich Ensemble Lunch is included Jewish Discovery Center Monday, March 4 6:30 – 9:10 pm “The Status of the Forgotten: Plato, The Babylonian Talmud, and Beyond” Prof. Azzan Yadin-Israel - David Blitzer Lecture Series UB North Campus, 708 Clemens Hall Tuesday, March 5 12:30 – 2 pm “How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple: Interpretation, Iconography, and Linguistics” Prof. Azzan Yadin-Israel - David Blitzer Lecture Series UB North Campus, 200G Baldy Hall Wednesday, March 6 1 – 2 pm “Pioneering Excellence – A Spotlight on Israel’s Startup Scene” The Blackstone LaunchPad at UB will be hosting a virtual conversation on Israeli startups with UB student Natan Weitzman and other Israeli leaders in the startup world. Natan is working on his BS in Engineering Physics with a Minor in Mathematics as a Presidential and Honors Scholar. He is also the Co-Founder & CEO of Renova, which is a cloud-based platform that makes designing and remodeling homes and other spaces stress-free and accessible to everyone. On ZOOM Thursday, March 7 9 – 10 am “Inclusive […]

Join leading scholars, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth) and Terrence L. Johnson (Harvard) to discuss the theme of "Reading for Liberation: The Bible in Black and Jewish Political Thought" in this David Blitzer Lecture: Professor Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, will open with "Living in Sadistic Times: The Bible, Modernity, and the Quest for Hope." The rise of mass death, destruction, and cruelty marks the modern period less as Kant’s vaunted era of rationalism and the universal human and far more as an era of the Marquis de Sade’s depiction of sadism. Sadism, as distinct from aggression, has been manifested in modernity in collusion with the rise of racism, resulting in terrible destruction, including for religion. What hope can we find in the Bible’s promise of redemption and its challenge for religious faith? Professor Terrence L. Johnson , Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard University, will offer "We are Not Saved: Social Death, Scripture, and 'Scripturalizing' the Race." His lecture will consider both the limits and opportunities of engaging Scripture as a talking book concept, a dialogical exchange between the reader and text, and community and text. Afropessimism raises […]