Felix Posen and David Biale on Cultural Judaism
A special public conversation between Felix Posen and Dr. David Biale on Jewish Secularism will be held at Tulane University on March 20th, in conjunction with the 6th annual Posen Conference. Mr. Posen is the chair of the Posen Foundation, which is committed to advancing Jewish education throughout the world; Dr. David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California–Davis and the editor of Cultures of the Jews (Schocken, 2002).
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When I was young, my father would tell a story about how his mother, my grandmother, declared her independence from Jewish custom. As the story goes, my grandmother was the first Jewish woman in Wloclawek, some 200 kilometers northwest of Warsaw, to grow her own hair, at a time when the Jewish code of female modesty required headcoverings. This small but significant act of rebellion had a ripple effect within the family...
Read more in Dr. David Biale's article about the premodern roots of Jewish secularism.
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The Posen Foundation Education Project
The Challenge of Teaching Jewish Studies Topics in Multicultural Middle Schools and High Schools is the theme of the new professional development seminars of the Posen Foundation Education Project. The seminars, designed for middle school and high school teachers interested in questions of culture, identity, and diversity, will be held in New York and Cincinnati in spring 2010. Details and application forms for the Midwest and New York seminars are now available.
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