Join us for a spring speaker series on "Being Jewish Today" focusing on three prominent Jewish-American thinkers who have recently published books on this question: 

Elliot Cosgrove: Tuesday | April 15 | 12:00pm | CCSRE Conference Room (Bldg. 360, first floor)

Peter Beinart: Monday | May 5 | 5:00pm | Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

Arnie Eisen: Monday | May 12 | 12:00pm | Terrace Room (Bldg. 460, Rm. 426)

RSVP required, Stanford affiliates only.

The first event in our spring speaker series features Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, author of For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today. Cosgrove considers the roles of rising antisemitism and the October 7 massacre have re-shaped how Jews understand themselves. In conversation with Ari Kelman, core faculty member in Jewish Studies and instructor for the popular undergraduate course, “Understanding Jews.”

The second event will be a conversation between Roland Greene director of the Stanford Humanities Center and journalist and writer, Peter Beinart, whose recent publication Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning reflects on how he sees Jewish religious tradition informing his relationship as an observant Jew to Israel in a time of crisis.

Finally, Arnie Eisen, former Stanford faculty and former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, interrogates what he sees as the central theological dilemma of modern Judaism: the hiddenness of God. He will be in conversation with Rowan Dorin, core faculty member in Jewish Studies , in conjunction with his the new core course Crisis and Community in Jewish Tradition. 

These events are generously co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, and the Humanities and Sciences Dean's Office.