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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: Hasidic Women in the Media
DESCRIPTION:Hasidic Women in the Media\nTuesday\, March 17\, from 5:00 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/bV2rx \nSpecial Guests: Jessica Roda & Malchy Goldman\, Moderator: Shachar Pinsker \n  \nIn a compelling lecture performance\, author Jessica Roda presents themes from her groundbreaking book *For Women and Girls Only*\, joined by actress\, writer\, and producer Malky Goldman—the book’s remarkable protagonist. The event offers a nuanced exploration of the representation of Hasidic female identity in media\, on screen\, and on stage. Goldman\, who was raised in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem\, shares her deeply personal journey navigating the arts from within and beyond the boundaries of her Hasidic upbringing. Through dialogue\, multimedia\, and live performance\, the evening exposes the tensions between tradition and self-expression\, visibility and erasure\, community expectations and artistic freedom. Roda contextualizes Goldman’s story within broader questions of gender\, religion\, and representation\, challenging reductive portrayals of Hasidic women in mainstream media. Goldman’s voice—grounded\, creative\, and courageous—offers a powerful counter-narrative\, reclaiming agency and complexity for Hasidic female identities on public stages. The performance invites audiences to reconsider assumptions and listen to stories often silenced or misunderstood.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-hasidic-women-in-the-media/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Learning,Presentation,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: How Ford Transformed Religion in America
DESCRIPTION:How Ford Transformed Religion in America\nTuesday\, March 24 from 5 – 6:30 PM \nRoom 2022\, South Thayer Building \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/y1Wbw \nSpecial Guest: Kati Curtis (Sewanee University) \n  \nWhat does a motor company and its founder have to do with religion in America? A lot\, it turns out. Henry Ford did not just mass-produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church\, reader of New Thought texts\, believer in the “gospel of reincarnation\,” mass marketer of antisemitic material\, and employer who institutionalized a social gospel\, Henry Ford’s contributions to American models of business were informed by and produced for an America he understood to be broadly Christian. Though Ford’s efforts at the head of the Ford Motor Company have commonly been understood as secular\, the Motor King was explicit that his work in engineering and auto production was prophetic and meant to remake the world. This talk offers a religious history of Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company\, repositioning them within critical studies of religion and examining how Ford transformed American religion in the twentieth century. \n 
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-how-ford-transformed-religion-in-america/
LOCATION:Thayer Building – Room 2022\, 202 South Thayer St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Jewish Learning,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:U-M Frankel Center Event: 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:“Orthodox Jewish Wellness Influencers in the Age of Viral Politics” with Ayala Fader (Fordham University) \nThursday\, March 26 from 5:30 – 8:00 PM \nMichigan Union\, Pendleton Room \nRSVP: https://myumi.ch/15PN8 \nThe University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies is pleased to announce that Professor Ayala Fader of Fordham University will deliver the 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture\, titled “Orthodox Jewish Wellness Influencers in the Age of Viral Politics.” This free\, public lecture will take place in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union on Thursday\, March 26\, 2026. Please RSVP at https://myumi.ch/15PN8 to let us know if you plan to attend. \nOver the past decade\, frum (Orthodox) Jewish women wellness influencers on social media have become a significant presence. Despite attempts by some rabbis to silence them\, frum influencers in the United States and Israel continue to share intimate details of their everyday lives online\, earning a living through the promotion of products linked to their platforms. Professor Fader’s talk examines the seemingly contradictory worlds these influencers navigate: while claiming new forms of gendered authority\, they simultaneously reinforce traditional Jewish family structures and gender roles. \nDrawing inspiration from conservative Christian wellness influencers\, frum influencers create content that asserts Jewish exceptionalism while fostering unexpected exchanges with conservative Christian women. The lecture will consider whether frum social media influencers are subtly promoting illiberal politics through the gendered language of wellness. \nAyala Fader is Professor of Anthropology and Jewish Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning books Mitzvah Girls (2009) and Hidden Heretics (2020). Professor Fader’s research has been generously supported by numerous fellowships and grants\, including those from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. As the founding director of Fordham’s New York Center for Public Anthropology & Sociology\, she leads the Demystifying Language Project\, which makes linguistic anthropology a social justice resource for public high schools. \nThe David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs was established in 1991 through a generous gift from the late David W. Belin of Des Moines (IA) and New York to provide an academic forum for the discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States. As the founding chair of Reform Judaism’s Outreach Commission and a founding member of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous\, Belin served the American Jewish community in numerous leadership roles. His commitment to the future of American Jewry inspired him to endow this annual lectureship\, providing a forum for meaningful discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/u-m-frankel-center-event-36th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture/
LOCATION:Michigan Union\, 530 S State St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
CATEGORIES:Community,Educational,Food Provided,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
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