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Anti-Semitism Past and Present Lecture Series

This lecture series, held throughout the 2021–22 academic year, will explore the ongoing phenomenon of anti-Semitism by examining its myriad historical contexts and relationships to other forms of prejudice and hatred.

Anti-Semitism and Christianity, A Lecture by Magda Teter of Fordham University
Anti-Semitism and Racism: Entangled Genealogies, A Lecture by Jonathan Judaken of Rhodes College
Anti-Semitism and Ableism, A Lecture by Katherine Sorrels of the University of Cincinnati

Current Events

2/11
Wednesday

Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Join us as we welcome Abby Stein, who will give a talk on Gender and Judaism and share her own powerful story. Stein was born and raised in a family of distinguished rabbinic lineage (she’s a tenth-generation descendent of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism), and studied to become a rabbi before leaving that world in 2012. Since coming out, she has been working to raise support and awareness for trans rights and for those leaving ultra-Orthodoxy. Stein is a Jewish educator, author, speaker, and activist, whose forthcoming book Sources of Pride is an anthology and exploration of Jewish texts on identity, gender, sexuality, and inclusivity.

5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Olin Humanities, Room 102
2/17
Tuesday

Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Kline Commons

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2026 Past Events

Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Monday, February 9, 2026

Discussants: Ruby Namdar, Novelist (LABA). Professor Haim Weiss, Ben Gurion University. Facilitated by Professor Shai Secunda, Bard College
Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
In this conversation between a professor of classical Hebrew literature and a contemporary Hebrew novelist, we will discuss a remarkable Talmudic tale about a rabbi, hiding in a cave to avoid Roman persecution, who then reemerges after twelve years to a world that appears unchanged. We will explore some of the literary and philosophical features of this story as we consider the relationship between the study of classical Hebrew literature and the writing of modern Hebrew literature today.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.