Read about the new Henry Luce Foundation supported initiative, “Jews of Color: Histories and Futures,” spearheaded by Samira Mehta: " ‘A chance to change the world’ — new initiative to elevate voices and experiences of Jews of Color "
Samira Mehta was interviewed by the Colorado Springs Gazette and KRDO News Radio about Hanukkah celebrations in Colorado and the U.S. https://gazette.com/news/public-hanukkah-celebrations-begin-sunday-in-co... https://krdonewsradio.podbean.com/e/holiday-extravaganza-november-24-202...
Eyal Rivlin’s Non-Binary Hebrew Project has been acknowledged in the broader Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. The Reform Judaism website: https://reformjudaism.org/blog/7-jewish-endeavors-make-5782-sweet-new-year New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/crosswords/gender-language-nonbinary.html The last picture caption in the article mentions Rivlin's project.
Samira Mehta has just published a new article, “Asian American Jews, Race, and Religious Identity,” in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion . You can access it here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfab058 .
Rebecca Wartell has just published a review of the recent book Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century in the Mediterranean Historical Review. You can find the review here .
Hilary Falb Kalisman was interviewed on Arirang TV, which is a South Korean English-language television network. She spoke on their Global Insight Program with Professor Avi Shlaim, Emeritus from Oxford, and you can find the segment here: