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Upcoming Events
Sabbath Queen Film Screening + Q&A
Twenty-one years in the making, Sabbath Queen follows Amichai Lau-Lavie’s journey from radical drag queen to influential rabbi of a God-optional, artist-driven New York synagogue.
This program features a screening of the film, followed by a Q&A with Lau-Lavie and director Sandi DuBowski, moderated by Prof. Golan Moskowitz.
Register through Eventbrite or present a current Tulane Splash Card for entry.
Sponsors: Tulane Department of Jewish Studies, Tulane Hillel, Tulane Office of Academic Excellence & Opportunity, Tulane Program for Gender & Sexuality Studies, Maurice L. Silverstein Fund, Tulane Department of Communication, Touro Synagogue, and Tulane LGBTQIA+ Faculty/Staff Affinity Group.
Past Events
What do we know about American Jewry? A Conversation on the 2020 Pew Survey of Jewish Americans
Featuring Dr. Ilana Horwitz (Tulane University), Dr. Ari Y. Kelman (Stanford University), Dr. Becka A. Alper (Pew Research Center), and Dr. Leonard Saxe (Brandeis University).
Sponsor: Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience.
Black [but / AND / or] Jewish: A Conversation on Intersections within and across Communities
Dr. Mia L. Kearney-Bagneris, Associate Professor of African Diaspora Art & Studies of Race in Western Art and Director of the Africana Studies Program, will moderate a discussion on starting and changing the conversation about intersectional Jewish identities, what it means to be Black AND Jewish, and how Black Jews can be supported.
Co-sponsored by the Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience and the Africana Studies Program.
Wild Visionary A Book Launch and Conversation on Maurice Sendak
