GIMELSTOB SYMPOSIUM IN JUDAIC STUDIES presents: New Scholarship on Women and Judaism

When: FEBRUARY 19 - 20, 2006

Where: Live Oak Pavilion, University Center • Florida Atlantic University • 777 Glades Road • Boca Raton, Florida

Cost: $5.00 for FAU Graduate Students (includes lunch), $25.00 for non-students

Registration: Registration for this event is required. You can register here

Schedule:
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19
11:30 a.m. Registration
12 p.m. Welcome

JEWISH WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY
Chair: Carol Gould, Florida Atlantic University
“In Search of Jewish Women Outside the Rabbinic
Orbit: Representations and Realities”
Ross S. Kraemer, Brown University
“The Unbearable Otherness of Being Women:
Women and Torah in Aggadah”
Dvora Weisberg, Hebrew Union College

2 p.m. THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE SHTETL
Chair: Yolanda Gamboa, Florida Atlantic University
“Women in Medieval Jewish Societies”
Renée Levine Melammed,
Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies
“The Spirituality of Eastern European
Jewish Women”
Chava Weissler, Lehigh University

4 p.m. LITERATURE: AUTHORS AND CHARACTERS
Chair: Andrew Furman, Florida Atlantic University
“Beyond Nation and Gender? The ‘New Woman’
of Contemporary Israeli Fiction”
Yael Feldman, New York University
“A Triple Minefi eld:
North American Jewish Women’s Writing”
Sara R. Horowitz, York University

5:30 p.m. Dinner Break

7 p.m. CONTEMPORARY LIFE
Chair: Myriam Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University
“The Power to Transform:
Women and American Judaism”
Pamela Nadell, American University

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Moderator: Ellen Frankel,
Jewish Publication Society of America
Jessica Spitalnic Brockman,
Temple Beth El of Boca Raton
Avigail Rock,
Community Kollel of Boca Raton
Marsha Shapiro Rose,
Florida Atlantic University

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20
9:30 a.m. RELIGIOUS ISSUES
Chair: Marianne Sanua, Florida Atlantic University
“Feminist Approaches to Halakhah”
Judith Hauptman,
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
“Movers and Shakers: Jewish Women’s
Transformative Infl uences in Contemporary
Jewish Religious Life”
Sylvia Barack Fishman, Brandeis University

11:30 a.m. CLOSING LUNCHEON
Chair: Alan L. Berger, Florida Atlantic University
“Half the Kingdom: Accounting for Women in
Judaism and in Jewish History”
Judith R. Baskin, University of Oregon
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This program is made possible
through the generosity of
Herbert and Elaine Gimelstob