News and Events

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Professor Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  5:15 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Starting in the 1830s, Jews in Europe became prominent scholars of the Qur'an and early Islam. Emphasizing parallels between the Qur’an and rabbinic writings, they developed affirmations of Islam that differed considerably from their more negative views of Christianity. Their scholarship continued, albeit with some changes in tone, until the 1930s, and then migrated to other parts of the world. Theirs was a unique Orientalism that is recognized until today with having established the field of Islamic Studies and viewed Islam as a treasury of profound and helpful insights and as a signal of Judaism’s centrality in the construction of the West.
  “White Jesus, Black Jesus, Christian Jesus, Jewish Jesus”
Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 4:00pm
Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 E. 6th Street, New York, New York
 Was Jesus a Jew or a Christian? Theologians on both sides have depicted Jesus either as a pious Jew seeking to reform Judaism or as the first Christian who introduced unique ideas and a new way of being a religious person. The debate between Jewish and Christian theologians over the religious identity of Jesus grew in intensity throughout the course of the nineteenth century and played an important role in the Nazi period. My lecture will review both sides of the debate and ask where we stand in our contemporary debates, including over Jesus as a person of color. Does Christology change if Jesus was Jewish, Black, or Asian?
Free and open to the public.

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Arendt Center  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new translation. Snacks will be provided! With Joshua Boettiger.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.

  Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every Thursday evening, all are invited to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat), they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome. 

Professor Robert Alter
Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of
Hebrew and Comparative Literature
at the University of California at Berkeley
Olin, Room 102  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
and
How to Read Biblical Narrative
2:30pm, May 1, 2022
Sixth Street Community Synagogue, New York CityProfessor Robert Alter has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on  American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature.   He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible.  His twenty-eight published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. Among his publications over the past thirty years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991),  Canon and Creativity (2000), The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004), Imagined Cities  (2005),  The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007), Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010),The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010), The Art of Bible Translation (2019), and Nabokov and the Real World 2021).  His completed translation of the Hebrew Bible with a commentary was published in 2018 in a three-volume set. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.   He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. Professor Alter is Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger