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Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in …
Prompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by – but are also prototypes for – contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …
We are often given mixed signals about the relationship between our responsibility to take action to address climate change and our sense of time. Is there a climate crisis that is so urgent that we must take whatever measures are …
Hear from Reyna Grande, author of the bestselling memoirs The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as …
The 2024 Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, Distinguished Lecture by James Loeffler. This event is both in-person or via Zoom. To register for the Zoom link see https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8tdtZrqyTdecQvrjdfKEyg#/registration Can law limit hate speech without violating the First …
DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois, filed a lawsuit to stop a planned neo-Nazi march by alleging menticide—the psychological equivalent of genocide. In this lecture, historian James …
Before The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a ‘boys’ club,’ the truth is that there have always been influential women on …
Jessica Kirzane presents the 2023 Faye Greenberg Sigman Woman of Valor Lecture. In person and via Zoom. For Zoom link register at https://bit.ly/Kirzane Miriam Karpilove (1888-1956) was a prolific Yiddish writer certain of her own importance, even as she was …
Two and a half years since the onset of a global pandemic that radically transformed our lives and society in numerous ways, what has been the impact of Covid-19 on our neighborhoods and communities? How has Covid-19 further revealed and …