CANCELED: ‘400 Miles to Freedom’—Q&A with Filmmaker Avishai Mekonen
400 Miles to Freedom documents Avishai Mekonen’s perilous journey from Ethiopia to Israel during “Operation Moses” in 1984.
400 Miles to Freedom documents Avishai Mekonen’s perilous journey from Ethiopia to Israel during “Operation Moses” in 1984.
Sami Everett, Ph.D., in his talk, will draw from a year-long participant observation of civil society initiatives and cultural producers in favor of, or indirectly addressing, the vast field of ‘Muslim-Jewish dialogue’ across the larger French regions.
The Fordham Institute for Women and Girls and International Health Awareness Network (IHAN) are co-sponsoring a conference celebrating four major UN anniversaries, titled “The UN Matters."
This series of four events, jointly organized by Columbia University, Fordham University, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, will explore the complex history of Poland and its shifting borders, focusing on the shared—but much misunderstood—past of Polish Jews and Christians.
Speakers: Authors Marc Epstein, PhD, professor of religion at Vassar College; and Sara Lipton, PhD, professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook, will discuss Jews in medieval art.