Events
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All of HBI’s events are free and open to the public. HBI is pleased to participate in the Mass Cultural Council’s Card to Culture Program.
Upcoming Events
Neta Weiner and Stav Marin
May 2, 2024
6:30-8:30 pm
In-Person at The Vilna Shul, 18 Phillips Street. Tickets $18.00
Join us to explore the diversity of Israel – the beauty and the challenges – through a funky and beautiful blend of music, dance, and conversation.
We’ll meet Stav Marin and Neta Weiner, co-founders of System Ali, a one-of-a-kind Jaffa, Israel-based hip hop band that uses music to connect across languages, cultures, and beliefs. Now, you can hear their music and stories in conversation with Yuval Evri, Brandeis University Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
This event is the first live iteration of the Studio Israel series which began online in 2020 to connect people with Israeli culture through artists during the pandemic. Studio Israel is presented in collaboration with Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Jewish Arts Collaborative, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, and The Vilna Shul, and is made possible with support from CJP.
Neta and Stav are in residence at Tufts University for the 2024 spring semester through the BAMAH Visiting Israeli Artists Program
Oldest Olive Tree, Mount of Olives, East Jerusalem. Photo 1898
Photo Credit: Penta Springs Limited/ Alamy Stock Photo. Design by Karin Rosenthal
May 6, 2024
12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT | Hybrid
In-Person at HBI | Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall and Online
Please join HBI’s Holocaust Research Study Group for a public event to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah. Our panel will focus on how the memory of the Holocaust exists in complex personal and political conversations surrounding the contested narratives of Israel/Palestine, the Gaza War, and its repercussions.
Two presentations will be offered prior to a panel discussion by members of the Holocaust Research Study Group:
Sarah Silberstein Swartz, “How I Learned to Listen to the Other Side: A Personal Reflection on the Israel/Palestine Conflict”
Laurel Leff, “How Not to Learn from History: The Holocaust in Press Coverage of the Gaza War”
May 22, 2024
7:00 pm EDT | Hybrid
In-Person at HBI | Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall and Online
HBI founding director, Shulamit Reinharz, returns to HBI for a conversation with HBI Director Lisa Fishbayn Joffe about her expansive and colorful first person collection, 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World, co-edited with Barbara Vinick. The collection features stories of Jewish brides from six continents and highlights diverse rituals related to weddings past and present.
Shulamit Reinharz is the founding director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute/HBI, the Brandeis University Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Emerita, and the founding director of the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Barbara Vinick, former Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of Boston University, is secretary of Kulanu, an organization that supports isolated and emerging Jewish communities around the world.
100 Jewish Brides is the third collection inspired by Shulamit Reinharz's vision of Judaism as practiced by women world-wide. As a past HBI Research Associate, Barbara Vinick collected and edited stories for Esther’s Legacy: Celebrating Purim Around the World. Vinick and Reinharz followed this with the award-winning and co-edited anthology Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World.
Read the Times of Israel review: Global mazel tov! New book chronicles weddings of 100 Jewish brides from around world, Renee Ghert-Zand, 2/14/2024.
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World is available at Amazon, Bookshop, and your local bookseller. Books will also be available for purchase at the in-person event, followed by a book signing.