Jewish Studies presentations at Beth Israel

Several members of the Jewish Studies program participated in Beth Israel’s Night of Learning, which celebrated the holiday of Shavuot.

• Miles de Klerk ’13: “Jews, Maronite Christians, and Food in Waterville”
• Rabbi Rachel Isaacs: “Comparing Ezra and Ruth: An Intra-Biblical Debate about Intermarriage?”
• Michelle Seares ’13: “On the Ordination of Women Rabbis”
• Prof. Rob Weisbrot: “The Legacy of Clara Lemlich, Radical Jewish Woman in the U.S. Labor Movement”
• Charlotte Wiesenberg ’13: “The New Promised Land: Maine’s Summer Camps for Jewish Youth in the Mid-20th Century”