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Prof. Kaplan on Israel’s 75th Birthday

Alexis Cabrera — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:12:21 +0000

Prof. Kaplan on Israel’s 75th Birthday

Author: The Conversation

May 10, 2023

Prof. Eran Kaplan writes in The Conversation about how the core tension behind the Israel’s establishment—whether a Jewish state could be a democratic state, whether Zionism could accommodate pluralism—is more obvious than ever.

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Prof. Gross and “traditional” Passover

Alexis Cabrera — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:35:03 +0000

Prof. Gross and “traditional” Passover

Author: Department of Jewish Studies

March 22, 2023

Prof. Rachel B. Gross spoke to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about Trader Joe’s new matzah and how brands have shaped U.S. Jews’ understanding of a “traditional” Passover.

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Prof. Dollinger Is “Reinventing the Narratives of Blacks and Jews”

Alexis Cabrera — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:00:15 +0000

Prof. Dollinger Is “Reinventing the Narratives of Blacks and Jews”

Author: Larry Yudelson, Jewish Standard

April 29, 2022

Marc Dollinger, a professor of Jewish studies at San Francisco State University, did not assume that his 2018 book, “Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s,” would earn a fourth printing.

In the book, Los Angeles native Dr. Dollinger, 58, looks at the Jewish world he grew up in as a child in the 1970s — a world that focused more on Jewish identity than on Jewish fitting-in, as marked by the Soviet Jewry movement’s public rallies — and uncovers its debt to the Black Power movement of the ’60s.

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Prof. Marc Dollinger Speaks on CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight

Alexis Cabrera — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:22:41 +0000

Prof. Marc Dollinger Speaks on CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight

Author: CNN

February 8, 2022

Prof. Marc Dollinger spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon and Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, on the definition of Jews as a race and the future of a Black-white Jewish alliance after Whoopi Goldberg’s recent comments about the Holocaust.

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Professor Gross’s Book Named National Jewish Book Award Finalist

Alexis Cabrera — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:14:49 +0000

Professor Gross’s Book Named National Jewish Book Award Finalist

Author: Department of Jewish Studies

January 26, 2022

Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice by Rachel B. Gross is a National Jewish Book Award finalist in the category of American Jewish Studies.

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Is American Girl a Religious Authority?

Alexis Cabrera — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:10:46 +0000

Is American Girl a Religious Authority?

Author: Rachel Gross

November 22, 2021

Rachel Gross writes about Mattel-owned American Girl's released a “Celebration of Cultures,” American Jewish nostalgia, and religious leadership for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog.

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Professor Dollinger’s New Preface, Antisemitism and Afropessimism

Alexis Cabrera — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 20:33:43 +0000

Professor Dollinger’s New Preface, Antisemitism and Afropessimism

Author: By Shaul Magid

November 22, 2021

The debate between Marc Dollinger and Brandeis University Press is an occasion to reflect on the nature of Jews’ response to race that also may suggest how many Jews understand antisemitism, writes Shaul Magid in Ayin Press.

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Professor Dollinger Publishes Article in the Journal of Academic Freedom

Alexis Cabrera — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:35:30 +0000

Professor Dollinger Publishes Article in the Journal of Academic Freedom

Author: Mark Dollinger

October 1, 2021

"A decision by Brandeis University Press to censor an invited new preface to my book, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, brought to the surface a number of questions central to the protection of academic freedom. Anonymous peer reviewers should not enjoy the power to overturn decision-making by press officials. Discussion of race, racism, and racial privilege must be included and protected in scholarly debate. Sometimes, academic gatekeepers confuse what is scholarly from what is political in an abusive effort to block academic discourse. Concerns over monetizing the academic book market should not predetermine a book’s content. When otherwise-hidden violations of academic freedom become part of a broad public discourse, retaliatory measures intimidate untenured faculty, scholars of color, and women academics who fear damage to their own careers should they speak out."

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Professor Gross to Teach Course for New Lehrhaus

Alexis Cabrera — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:15:42 +0000

Professor Gross to Teach Course for New Lehrhaus

Author: J. News

September 9, 2021

J. (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Besides one-off talks, courses will be taught by a range of scholars, such as award-winning author and academic Robert Alter and UC Berkeley Jewish studies professor Ron Hendel. Rachel Gross of San Francisco State University will talk about American Jewish food. Classes on Biblical Hebrew, modern Hebrew and Yiddish will be offered, and the well-loved Talmud circles will keep going under the New Lehrhaus umbrella, co-sponsored by Jewish Community Centers in San Francisco, Palo Alto and San Rafael.

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Professor Dollinger Serves on Editorial Board of Western States Jewish History

Alexis Cabrera — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:14:38 +0000

Professor Dollinger Serves on Editorial Board of Western States Jewish History

Author: San Diego Jewish World

September 1, 2021

SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD -- In addition to those board members who wrote reviews, Western States Jewish History’s editorial board includes Marc Dollinger of San Francisco State University; Victoria Fisch of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento; Aaron Fruchtman of California State University Long Beach; Joel Gereboff, Arizona State University & Academy for Jewish Religion California, and Wynne Waugaman, of the University of Southern California.

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