SMU Jewish Studies 2018 Newsletter Originally Posted: June 25, 2018 This is an excerpt from the 2018 Jewish Studies Newsletter. To read the full newsletter click here: SMU Jewish Studies 2018 Newsletter SMUJS Faculty Highlights Sabri Ates was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship grant to research his book on Kurdish state-lessness. Rick Cogley […]
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Event Date: 9/24/17 Location: Hughes-Trigg Auditorium Time: 3:00-5:30 pm Dedman College’s Jewish Studies program, Perkins’s Global Theological Education, and the Dallas Jewish Film Festival co-sponsor “Past Life,” directed by Avi Nesher. Based on a true story and set in 1977 Jerusalem, two sisters — one a withdrawn classical musician, the other an extroverted scandal sheet journalist — set […]
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Event Date: March 30, 2017 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater Time: 7pm This event brings together African musicians and historians with SMU students and faculty. This public event of interspaced conversation and song will involve two Zimbabweans who have put mbira music on the world stage, Dr. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited Band and Professor […]
Event date: Friday, February 10, 2017, Time: 12:00-2:30 pm Location: Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall, Perkins School of Theology Jesus and his first followers were Jews, grounded in Jewish Scripture, Jewish ethics, Jewish theology, and Jewish hopes. Professor Levine’s work has shown that to ignore this Jewish context is to misunderstand Jesus—and, too often, to reinforce […]