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Acclaimed novelist and Israeli television producer Ron Leshem will speak on the subject, “Israel as #1 Exporter of TV Shows to the U.S.”, Sunday, April 9, 1:30 p.m., at the Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library on the University of Louisville campus. … Read More
A Palestinian imprisoned for attacking Israelis with a knife watches Schindler’s List while behind bars and is moved to tears. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier directing a bomb strike on Gaza says he didn’t consider the collateral damage while … Read More
Rachel Singel, a local artist and professor at the University of Louisville opened her show, The Art and Architecture of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, Italy on January 8. The exhibit examines the Venetian Jewish Ghetto, as it turned 500 … Read More
I am excited to announce a brand new Jewish Studies course which will be taught by Dr. Manuel Medina this spring at the University of Louisville. Humanities 361-01: “Jewish Culture in Latin America” will be offered Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-3:15 … Read More
Melvyn Koby, M.D., a University of Louisville alumnus, pioneer and innovator in ophthalmology in Louisville for more than 40 years, has established an award to promote compassion among the physicians training at UofL. The Dr. Melvyn Koby Educational Excellence Award … Read More
This fall, the program for Judaic Studies is very pleased to offer UofL’s first course in Jewish graphic novels and comics, HUM 561-01, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2:15 p.m. I’m the instructor, and I am co-editor of The Jewish … Read More
Local college students shared the Passover holiday with their campus communities with two interfaith Sedarim – one at Bellarmine University with Campus Ministries facilitated by Rabbi Michael Wolk on Wednesday, April 6, and another at the University of Louisville with … Read More
Picture two huge gallery walls covered with 539 individual triangular shaped quilt pieces that each pay tribute to a woman, women’s organization or women’s issues and you can begin to sense the enormity of the University of Louisville Hite Art … Read More
Tuesday, March 22 6:30pm UofL Bingham Humanities Building 300 Born in Brooklyn and raised in Miami, Izzy Ezagui made Aliya in order to join the Israeli army and pursue his dream. Izzy was sent into combat at the border of …
Renowned Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret, who last visited Louisville during the 2008 Festival of the Book, will speak at the University of Louisville on Friday, October 16, at 3 p.m. about his recent critical success, the memoir The … Read More