Hi all and welcome back!

On behalf of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, it is my pleasure to welcome you back and wish you sweet new years, both academic and Jewish.  I am pleased to serve the Stanford community this year as the interim director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, while Professor Charlotte Fonrobert is on a well-deserved sabbatical.  

For the upcoming academic year, the Taube Center is again proud to bring some of the best of Jewish Studies to our campus and our community.  We are fortunate to be able to offer a full schedule of performances, speakers, book events, and panels, offering an array of perspectives on Jewish life, culture, religion, people, places, ideas, and texts.

This year, we are especially excited about bringing you the following events, to name a few:

* Professor Deborah Lipstadt speaking about truth and history, and her role in the recent film, “Denial”
Cantors Yanky and Shulem Lemmer, in concert and conversation
* A conference celebrating our own Zachary Baker, upon his retirement from Stanford.
* A conversation with Professor Ken Goldberg about Golems, artificial intelligence, Jewish folklore and the future of knowledge (in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein).)
* Professor (and Stanford History PhD) Daniel Heller on the history of right-wing Zionism.
* Celebrations of new publications by our faculty.
* A new podcast series, in case you can’t make our live events (launching early in 2018, tfu, tfu, tfu).

We are most excited about continuing to be the center of ongoing conversations and collaborations around Jewish Studies at Stanford, and we are grateful to be part of such an exciting, vibrant, engaged community.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you at our events over the course of the year, and to engaging with you on Facebook, as well.  

Please do stay tuned for more announcements, check our webpage and our Facebook page for upcoming events, and we wish you a sweet, full new year.

Shana tovah, umetukah,

Professor Ari Y Kelman

Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies
Interim Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies