Crossroads Events

Marina Simakova is a scholar, activist, and co-editor of a new leading anti-war Russia media Platform, Posle Media. Her talk is entitled "Keeping Our Word: How to Write Politically in Times of Defeat." Political defeat is an emotional experience many of us may feel today. What are its extra-emotional effects? How could such experience be mobilized for political reasoning and writing? What remains of the speaking subject under the veil of censorship? What kind of threats and possibilities does this situation entail? Marina Simakova will address ...

Hasia R. Diner is an American historian. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History; Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University and Interim Director of Glucksman Ireland House NYU. Diner will give a talk titled, "THE JEWS' MANY PLACES IN AMERICA" This talk looks at the historic encounters between Jews and America, in spatial terms but also in terms of where they found themselves, in relationship to where and how th...

The Levitt Center invites you to a Community Conversation on Income Inequality on Campus. Lunch will be provided and space is limited, please register here!  

The Levitt Center invites you to a Community Conversation on Using AI/Chat GPT in Class.  Lunch will be provided and space is limited, please register here! More information to come!

Jerome A. Chanes is an adjunct professor at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He was national affairs director of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (now the Jewish Council for Public Affairs) and was associate executive director of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. He has taught at Barnard College, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Tel Aviv University School of Law, Yeshiva University, and the Academy of Jewish Religion. His books include Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook, An...