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#MustangsGiveBack is March 24! Support a Dedman College project and make a real difference for students

What will you support at SMU? Make a gift on March 24, 2016 and be a part of Mustangs Give Back, our one-day giving challenge. Below is a list of Dedman College projects: 1. Support Dedman College Scholars for a semester.  Help us fund one semester for a Dedman College Scholar student next year! CLICK […]

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Blue Like Me: The Art of Siona Benjamin

DATE: March 1, 2016 TIME: 5:30 pm LOCATION: Dedman Life Sciences Building 110 Siona Benjamin, a painter originally from Bombay now living in the U.S., will discuss her work and how it reflects her background of being raised as a Jew in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. Her paintings combine the imagery of her […]

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Jewish Studies Presents Judeo-Spanish Culture Week, January 24-31

For Immediate Release January 20, 2016 Contact: Shira Lander, 214-768-2157, jewishstudies@smu.edu Dallas, TX– Southern Methodist University will celebrate Judeo-Spanish culture with a series of festive events and lectures the week of January 24-31. Highlights include a screening of Flory’s Flame, a documentary about the life and music of renowned 90-year old Sephardic composer and performer Flory […]

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Jewish Studies presents: A Week Celebrating Judeo-Spanish Culture

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Jewish Studies is officially a Minor

SMU Daily Campus Originally Posted: December 8, 2015 Students may now declare a minor in Jewish Studies as of the Fall Semester 2015.  Senior finance major Trish Weisberg came into SMU as a religious minor and declared a Jewish Studies minor after she decided to learn more about her own faith. “I’ve really enjoyed it. […]

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Nov. 10, Lunch and Lecture by Yehuda Leby-Aldema, “Not By Words Alone”

Event Date: November 10, 2015 Event time: Noon-1:30p.m. Israeli artist Yehuda Levy-Aldema’s presentation visually explores biblical texts beyond the traditional written word. A native of Jerusalem, Levy-Aldema has been working in a variety of media since 1982, when he graduated from Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts. His most recent work in the Ukraine, at […]

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Heretics, Pagans, Jews (and Samaritans): The Priorities of Christian Imperial Programs in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries

Event date: Monday, April 27, 2015 Event time:12-1 pm Location: Hyer Hall, Room 100 The treatment of Jews under the Christian Roman empire is often represented as yet another chapter in a dismaying narrative of pervasive and continuous anti-Judaism. This lecture will set the experiences of Jews in the 4th and 5th centuries within the broader […]

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Jewish Studies and The John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies present Dan Arbell: The US- Turkey-Israel Triangle

Dan Arbell, a scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies at American University, is a 25 year veteran of the Israeli Foreign Service, serving in senior posts overseas in the UN, the US and Japan, and holding senior positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters in Jerusalem. Most recently he was Deputy Chief of […]

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Jewish Studies Research Cluster

Event date: 12/12/14 Event time: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Event location: Hyer 308A Event description: This cluster will explore how Jews used a range of media, namely visual culture and written publications, to represent themselves and their socio-political objectives to a non-Jewish public in order to garner sympathy from and create alliances with members of […]