Israel Excavation Society Sifting\u00a0Project<\/u><\/a>, sifted through the dig site\u2019s debris and discovered the\u00a0now-famous \u201cBethlehem Seal\u201d dated to the 7th century B.C.\u00a0Dr. Barkay was the first to translate the seal\u2019s\u00a0significant three line inscription which says \u201cIn the 7th year, Bethlehem, for the king\u201d.\u00a0He has been the director of the Israel\u00a0Excavation Society Sifting Project since 2004, sifting soil from the Temple\u00a0Mount area. Tens of thousands of finds have revealed human activity on the site\u00a0of the Temple Mount covering fifteen thousand years.\u00a0Previous excavations\u00a0include Megiddo, Lachish, Momshit, and Susa in Iran. He has concentrated on sites in Jerusalem since the 1970s, participating and directing on various\u00a0levels.<\/p>\nDr. Ren\u00e9e Levine Melammed<\/strong> is a full professor of Jewish History at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem where she heads the women\u2019s studies program. Her first book,\u00a0Heretics or Daughters of Israel: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile<\/em>\u00a0(1999) received two National Jewish Book Awards. Her second book is\u00a0A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective<\/em>\u00a0(2004) and her third book,\u00a0An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino verses of Bouena Sarfatty<\/em>\u00a0was published by the University of Indiana Press in 2013.<\/p>\nDr. Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder <\/strong>is a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University. Her studies focus on marginalization and power relations between minorities and the state in higher education and work (focusing on women).\u00a0She spoke to our students about Bedouin history, land rights, and gender.<\/p>\nDaniel Jonas<\/strong> is born and raised in Jerusalem. He is an observant Jew, with an MA degree in Jewish History at the Hebrew University and serves as the chairperson of ‘Havruta \u2013 Religious Gays’. He first became motivated to volunteer and help his fellow closeted women and men following the murderous attack at the Bar-Noar (gay youth club) in Tel-Aviv in August 2009. He joined Havruta\u2019s board, first as spokesperson and for the past years as chairperson. He became more involved in local Jerusalemite politics and culture running in the Meretz primaries for the elections to the city council and as the former coordinator of ‘Yeru-Shalem \u2013 the Coalition for an Inclusive Jerusalem’. Until\u00a0recently he worked at ‘Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights’ as spokesperson.\u00a0 He spoke to students about LGBTQ issues in Israel.<\/p>\nDr. Benny Porat <\/strong>is a senior lecturer on the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the director of the Matz Institute for Jewish Law. After completing his doctorate at the Hebrew University, he was hosted as a post-doctoral fellow by the University of Toronto.\u00a0 He is an expert in distributive justice and Israeli law.\u00a0 Professor Porat spoke to our students about religion and state in Israel in 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\nDr. Meir Litvak<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0(PhD Harvard 1991). Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History; Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and Principal Research Fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University.\u00a0Fields of expertise: Modern Shi\u2018i and Iranian History and modern Islamic movements.\u00a0 Professor Litvak spoke about his work on Arab and Muslim responses to the Holocaust in\u00a0From Empathy to Denial: Arab Response to the Holocaust,<\/i>\u00a0co-authored with Esther Webman.<\/p>\nShulamit S. Magnus<\/strong> is Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Oberlin College; she resides in Jerusalem. She is the author of four books and scores of articles and the winner of a National Jewish Book Award and a Hadassah-Brandeis Award for her work on Pauline Wengeroff’s Memoirs of a Grandmother. She publishes frequently on contemporary issues in Israeli political and women’s affairs in Israel and on Israel-Diaspora relations in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel. She is a founder of women’s group prayer at the Kotel, read Torah at the first such service at the Kotel, and the first-named plaintiff in a case before the Supreme Court of Israel to enforce Jewish women’s already-recognized right to full religious options at the site.<\/p>\nThe Association for the Improvement of Women’s Status, LAKIA:<\/strong>\u00a0Desert Embroidery addresses the issue of women’s status in the Bedouin community by focusing on the need for developing alternative sources of income through the creation of a home industry based on traditional skills to restore women\u2019s contributions to their family\u2019s earnings and promote gender equality.\u00a0Desert Embroidery develops these skills into contemporary projects which are sold to tourists and other visitors at our Visitor Center.\u00a0The weekly meetings at the Association headquarters provide an opportunity for women to meet, exchange ideas and talk about their lives. At least once a month the women in the project participate in lectures and trips which expand their knowledge in such areas as education, social welfare, economics, health and more.\u00a0The women in the project have gained self-respect and the respect of their families for their economic contribution.\u00a0Some women have opened their own businesses at home.<\/p>\nNeve Shalom:\u00a0<\/strong> Lecture by group leader: Wahat al-Salam \u2013 Neve Shalom (pronounced \u201cwaa\u1e25at\u2019 as-salaam\/nevei shalom\u201d) is Arabic and Hebrew for\u00a0Oasis of Peace<\/i>: an intentional community jointly established by Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. The village is located midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Jaffa.<\/p>\nMs. Nava Rosen:\u00a0<\/strong> Past conversion teacher in the IDF.\u00a0 Ms. Rosen spoke about her experience as a conversion teacher in the IDF reflecting on her role in the IDF as a religious woman, on issues relating to religion and identity in the IDF.\u00a0 Her husband, also spoke informally about his experiences as an Ethiopian Jew in Israel and in the IDF.<\/p>\nPast Lecturers:<\/h4>\n
Dr. Paula Fredriksen<\/strong>, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University, since 2009 has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she also holds two honorary doctorates in theology and religious studies. She has published widely on the social and intellectual history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire. Author of\u00a0Augustine on Romans<\/em>\u00a0(1982) and\u00a0From Jesus to Christ<\/em>\u00a0(1988; 2000), her\u00a0Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews,<\/em>\u00a0won a 1999 National Jewish Book Award. More recently, she has explored the development of Christian anti-Judaism, and Augustine\u2019s singular response to it, in\u00a0Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism<\/em>\u00a0(2010); and has investigated the shifting conceptions of God and of humanity in\u00a0Sin: The Early History of an Idea<\/em>\u00a0(2012). Her latest study,\u00a0Paul: The Pagans\u2019 Apostle<\/em>\u00a0(2017), places Paul\u2019s Jewish messianic message to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean culture.<\/p>\nDr. Khader Salameh:<\/strong> Khalidi Library, East Jerusalem.\u00a0The Khalidi Library (al-Maktaba al-Khalidiyya<\/u>) was established in 1899 by Hajj Raghib al-Khalidi, as a public trust (waqf). This was made possible by a sum bequeathed to him by his grandmother, Khadija al-Khalidi, daughter of Musa Effendi al-Khalidi, who was\u00a0Kadiasker<\/u>\u00a0of Anatolia in 1832. It was based on family holdings of manuscripts and books collected over many generations by\u00a0Muhammad San\u2019Allah, Muhammad Ali, Yusuf Diya Pasha, Musa Shafiq, Ruhi Bey an d\u00a0Yasin al-Khalidi, as well as many others.\u00a0The Library was intended to be open to the public, with the aim of encouraging the spread of learning, and reviving interest in the classics of Islamic learning, as well as modern subjects.<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Professor – Deidre Butler Associate Professor, Director of the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies Degrees: BA, MA, PhD Concordia University Phone: 613-520-2600 x 8106 Email:\u00a0deidre.butler@carleton.ca Office: 2A49 Paterson Hall Biography Dr. Deidre Butler is Director of the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies and is the Jewish Studies specialist in the Religion program at Carleton University. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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