Category: Jewish Studies Program

2025 Honorary Degree Symposium

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Post date May 7, 2025

Please join the SMU Community as we cordially invite you to the Honorary Degree Symposium featuring a conversation with 2025 Honorary Degree recipient Dr. Ruth Simmons Distinguished education leader Dr. Ruth Simmons will join us for a conversation moderated by local writer Charlise Lyles to discuss Dr. Simmons’s critically acclaimed memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey […]

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Save the Date: March 22, Levine Lecture in Jewish Studies

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date February 21, 2023

Two Truths in One Heart – Two Peoples in One Land Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 pm in 306 Dallas Hall Free and open to the public. For more information email sfrolov@smu.edu or go to www.friendsofroots.net

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Event, Nov. 7: Nate and Ann Levine Endowed Lecture in Jewish Studies

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date October 24, 2022

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Happy first day of classes!

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date August 22, 2022

Welcome back! We hope that you have a great first day of class!

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Giving Day is March 22

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date March 21, 2022

March 22 is SMU Giving Day. For one day, if many Mustangs come from many different places to do many good things, together, we can shape a brighter future. https://bit.ly/gddedman Dedman College Opportunities Goal Description Department of Biological Sciences $5,000 The Department of Biological Sciences and its faculty provide insight into how life and […]

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Dedman College D&I Newsletter, Fall 2021

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date August 24, 2021

Read the latest Dedman College D&I Newsletter

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The myth of diminished learning during quarantine

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date May 29, 2020

Jewish Post Originally Posted: May 29, 2020 As a professor at SMU Dallas, I am saddened by mainstream media’s myopic view of pandemic-induced online education. Whether it be op-eds about students receiving inferior educations in virtual classrooms or stories about parents suing colleges for “not getting their money’s worth,” public discourse lacks an alternative perspective. […]

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“That’s Fashionating: The History of Israeli Fashion From the Kibbutz to the City”

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date January 12, 2020

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 7 pm, DLSB 110 “That’s Fashionating: The History of Israeli Fashion From the Kibbutz to the City” by Liraz Cohen Mordechai, fashion lecturer and blogger with a Master’s degree in Global Fashion Management from FIT, manager of the NY- Israel Fash&Tech Meetup community, and certified stylist in the fashion industry of NYC. […]

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7th annual Ladino Day celebration

Post author By Katherine Nickles
Post date January 12, 2020

Sunday Feb. 2, 1:00-5:30, Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium 7th annual Ladino Day celebration featuring Dr. Rey Romero, U. of Houston lecturing on “The Role of Ladino in Sustaining Sephardic Communities,” Student readings of Sephardic folktales, Film screening and discussion of “Song of the Sephardi” by David Raphael, and Kosher Sephardic Sweets. Free and Open to the […]