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The Honors Program’s fall luncheon series is off to a great start!
On September 7th, we held our first luncheon of the semester, a Welcome Luncheon, where students gathered to hear about our plans for the semester and got to share their ideas as well. New students and old enjoyed pizza and heard from the […]
Dr. Erin Graff Zivin visited the Honors Program to talk about her book, Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic. Dr. Erin Graff Zivin is the Chairperson of the Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Southern California, and is an expert on Marrano culture.
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Earlier this semester, Professor and Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Ozer Glickman, special adviser to the Honors Program, spoke to our students about the study of Liberal Arts and Jewish values.
If you missed the event and are interested in hearing what Rabbi Glickman said, you can now listen to the recording here.
Our first luncheon of the semester took place on February 17th, where Professor of Hebrew Dr. Sam Schneider spoke about the intriguing case of Yosef Haim Brenner (1881-1921), the forerunner and father of modern Hebrew Literature. Yosef Haim Brenner, who immigrated to Palestine in 1909 and dramatically lost his life during the Yaffa riots, left […]
At the end of the previous semester, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program and the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought partnered for a Wednesday luncheon featuring alumni Rabbis Ari Lamm and Shlomo Zuckier – former Yeshiva College Honors students and and current Jewish Studies doctoral students for a discussion entitled “The Beit Midrash and the […]
On December 2nd, Honors students were treated to a special reading by Prof. Christina Chiu, who will be teaching a course on Creative Fiction in the Spring 2016 semester. During this joint event with the English Department in the Honors Lounge, Prof. Chiu read a chapter from her new novel The Ultimate Closet, a coming […]
On November 11th, the Honors Program dedicated our weekly luncheon to the discussion of the brave new world of online education. Professor Akiva Covitz, the Executive Director of YU Global and former vice-president of edX, and Dr. Steven Fine, whose new online course on the Arch of Titus will soon have its debut in Coursera, […]
Dr. Ethan Katz, Assistant Professor of History and Affiliated Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, recently visited YU to speak to the Honors Program about his new book, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, out this fall from Harvard University Press. The book describes the history […]
The Honors Program recently hosted another installment of our Honors Roundtable series, an event in which faculty members reflect on their career and trajectory, their interests and the path that brought them to become the scholars they are today. For our weekly Wednesday luncheon on October 28, Professor Joanne Jacobson of the English department joined us […]
On Wednesday, October 14th, Dr. Neil Rogachevsky, a postdoctoral research Associate at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, came to the Honors Lounge for our weekly luncheon to give a talk on “Alexis de Tocqueville on decentralization and `local government,’ revisited.”
The French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was famous for celebrating […]
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