UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

How Women Changed American Religion: A Jewish Perspective 5th Annual Padnos Public Engagement Lecture on Jewish Learning Guest Speaker: Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) The 2025 Padnos Lecture, delivered by Professor Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) explores how American Judaism has been shaped by general societal expectations for women's religious behavior and by new active […]

Jews, the Academy, and Antisemitism: How and What Should We Study? Guest Lecturer: Riv-Ellen Prell (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) PLEASE RSVP HERE: https://myumi.ch/qZ8XE Antisemitism on American campuses, both before and following the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023 is one of nation’s key polarizing issues, acting as a magnet for virtually […]

Queer Belongings and the Jewish “Homeland”: Israeli and Jewish American Lives Between Home and Away Dr. Hila Amit (Thomas Mann House Fellow) in conversation about intersections of queerness, migration, and identity in the context of Israel/Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. Through a blend of fiction and academic inquiry, Amit examines the ways queer Jewish lives […]