As the new incoming executive director of The Vilna Shul, Dalit Ballen Horn intends to put the focus for Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture on the people themselves.
“Now’s the moment when The Vilna needs to focus on the people,” said Horn, whose official start date in her new position is Feb. 22. “And when I say ‘people,’ I’m really thinking about how The Vilna can deepen relationships and foster community among the people who participate in its programs.”
Dalit Ballen Horn, The Vilna Shul’s incoming executive director.
A native of southern Florida, Horn relocated to New York City to attend a joint program between Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America that carried a heavy workload and ultimately earned her two bachelor’s degrees. She met her future husband at Columbia and remained in New York for 10 years before he landed a medical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which brought them both to the Boston area
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After exchanges between University President Morton Schapiro and NU Community Not Cops this fall, Northwestern Hillel tackled questions about Zionism, anti-Semitism and racial justice in a weeklong symposium this month.
After demonstrations outside his home in October, Schapiro said in an email to the University community the protesters’ rhetoric toward him held anti-Semitic undertones. In response, NUCNC said they condemned anti-Semitism and their words had been misconstrued by Schapiro because “anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.”
Hillel Social Justice Coordinator Lydia Greenberg, who helped organize the symposium, told The Daily many Jewish students felt “hurt, confused, (and) frustrated” either at the administration or other students after the heated back-and-forth in the fall.
Secular Israelis are obsessed with traditional Judaism. Micah Goodman helps explain why. Micah Goodman (Shalom Hartman Institute/JTA Montage)
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After Micah Goodman published his latest book, “The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity,” in Hebrew last year, he enjoyed a resurgence of interest in his previous work by his fellow Israelis.
Over the previous decade, Goodman had released a stream of books introducing secular Israelis to foundations of Jewish tradition, from the biblical Moses to Maimonides. In his latest book, he laid out an argument for engagement with those texts by Israelis who don’t see themselves as religious about 44%, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.
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This week, Hartman’s president, Yehuda Kurtzer, spoke with Yoni Appelbaum, the Atlantic’s Ideas editor, who also taught history and literature at Harvard University, Babson College and at Brandeis University, where he received his Ph.D. in American history.
This conversation was recorded on Jan. 7, 2021, the day after a pro-Trump mob displaying various far-right and neo-Nazi symbols stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
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