Past Events

The oldest complete Torah Scroll in the world today is preserved in the magnificent library of Alma Mater Studiorum, The University of Bologna. This scroll, which originates from the East, can be dated to the Twelfth or Thirteenth Centuries. Professor Penkower, an expert in the study of the Hebrew Bible, its canonization and transmission in both manuscript and print, is the first scholar to have analyzed this scroll in depth. He will present his findings in an illustrated lecture, showing the history, meaning, and halakhic significance of...

Shalom! Explore Jewish & Israeli Culture and Learning at UMD's 20th Maryland Day! Explore Jewish and Israeli culture and learning with the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at UMD. Enjoy interactive games, custom photos and fun prizes.

Being African American and Jewish is a combination that many can’t wrap their heads around. However, for thousands of Jews of color; having heritage, faith and family in both Diasporas—African and Jewish—and their many intersections means creating material, social and

ideational lives that interweave identities and histories. For Michael Twitty—food blogger, Judaics teacher and writer on Jewish cultural issues—this includes food and the ways Blacks and Jews have mediated otherness and oppression using what they eat as well as the...

This talk will explore the intersections between transgender identity and religious tradition by demonstrating what it means to read the Bible from a transgender perspective.

Joy Ladin is the author of The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, due out in 2018 from Brandeis University Press. Her memoir, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was a 2012 National Jewish Book Award finalist. She has also published nine books of poetry including The Future is Trying to Tell Us...