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Call Me Back - with Dan SenorThe Paradox of Passover 2025 - with Rachel Goldberg PolinWatch Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcastTo contact us, sign up for updates, and access transcripts, visit: https://arkmedia.org/Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenorDan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenorArk Media on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkmediaorgUpcoming Event Notice: Dan Senor will be delivering this year’s State of World Jewry Address at the 92nd Street Y (92NY) on Tuesday May 13 at 7:30 pm: https://www.92ny.org/event/the-state-of-world-jewry-addressToday’s episode: Jews...2025-04-071h 04
SAPIR ConversationsS15E3: “Academia’s Palestine Exception” with Shaul Kelner
Critical theory – the study of the ways “oppression gets produced and reproduced within and across societies” – is the dominant method of inquiry in many areas of higher education, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Yet many scholars resist applying it honestly to the study of the Jewish people and Zionism. Were they to do so, argues Vanderbilt professor Shaul Kelner, they might find they had entirely misunderstood these categories and the place of Jews in the oppressor/oppressed dynamic.
On Tuesday, January 7, Professor Kelner joined SAPIR Associate Editor Felicia Herman to unpack his essay, “Turning Cr...2025-01-0858 min
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish EducationEpisode 28: How American Activists Helped Free Soviet Jews | Professor Shaul KelnerIn his recent book, Shaul Kelner recounts the compelling stories of heroism that helped to free Soviet Jews. In this session, he discusses how this activism reached Jewish educational spaces — through bar and bat mitzvah twinning, school field trips to rallies, summer camp programming, and much more — and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan-Bush years.Originally recorded: 9/26/24At the Mandel Center, we are committed to advancing the field of Jewish educational scholarship, especially scholarship on teaching and learning, in order to make a deep and lasting difference on the live...2024-11-1128 min
Deep Dish ConversationsDr. Shaul Kelner, "Whiteness Is Not an Identity That I Embrace"Dr. Shaul Kelner unpacks his own whiteness as a Jew and what that means in the U.S. | Deep Dish Convos Donate and Support Community Power Building Content: https://dishdishconvos.captivate.fm/supportWatch Full Video Interview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JeromeMooreCommunityChangersWebsite: https://www.deepdishconversations.com/Follow On:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deepdishconvoshttps://www.instagram.com/deepdishconvos/https://twitter.com/Deepdishconvos2023-10-1701 minDeep Dish ConversationsDr. Shaul Kelner, "Whiteness Is Not an Identity That I Embrace"Dr. Shaul Kelner unpacks his own whiteness as a Jew and what that means in the U.S. | Deep Dish Convos Donate and Support Community Power Building Content: https://dishdishconvos.captivate.fm/supportWatch Full Video Interview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JeromeMooreCommunityChangersWebsite: https://www.deepdishconversations.com/Follow On:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deepdishconvoshttps://www.instagram.com/deepdishconvos/https://twitter.com/Deepdishconvos2023-10-1701 min
Deep Dish ConversationsBlack-Jewish Relations with Dr. Meyer & Dr. KelnerNPT producer & Host Jerome Moore talks with Dr. Shaul Kelner and Dr. Adam Meyer, professors of Jewish studies. This conversation unpacks how social, religious and economic structures have made it challenging for Blacks and Jews to connect in the wake of our country’s racial reckoning and rising anti-Semitism.Watch full interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/IAKfZy5d8G0 A Slice of the Community Exclusively on Nashville Public Television.Donate and Support Community Power Building Content: https://dishdishconvos.captivate.fm/supportWatch Full Video Interview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com...2023-09-2738 minDeep Dish ConversationsBlack-Jewish Relations with Dr. Meyer & Dr. KelnerNPT producer & Host Jerome Moore talks with Dr. Shaul Kelner and Dr. Adam Meyer, professors of Jewish studies. This conversation unpacks how social, religious and economic structures have made it challenging for Blacks and Jews to connect in the wake of our country’s racial reckoning and rising anti-Semitism.Watch full interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/IAKfZy5d8G0 A Slice of the Community Exclusively on Nashville Public Television.Donate and Support Community Power Building Content: https://dishdishconvos.captivate.fm/supportWatch Full Video Interview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com...2023-09-2738 min
Frankely Judaic: Explorations in Jewish StudiesShaul Kelner, "The Soviet Jewry Movement"2015-16 Frankel Institute Secularization/Sacralization
Fellow, Shaul Kelner
Project Title: Strategic Sacralization in American Jewish Politics: The Contradictions of Cultural Mobilization in the American Soviet Jewry Movement2016-03-0713 min
Frankely Judaic PodcastShaul Kelner, "The Soviet Jewry Movement"2015-16 Frankel Institute Theme Year, "Secularization/Sacralization"Fellow: Shaul KelnerProject Title: "The Soviet Jewry Movement"The Frankel Institute’s 2015-2016 ThemeYear “Secularization/Sacralization” may best be conceived as an implicitly comparative project that invites participants to explore contacts among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic secular and sacral processes within an array of disciplinary discussions.Where and when has the separation of the spiritual from the material become salient, and how has this raised consciousness of separation manifested itself? When and how have the perceived segregation of sanctified, spiritual, interior, or transcendental experiences from the tem...2016-02-2813 min