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SUMMARY:36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ayala Fader on\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026. Food will be served at the pre-lecture reception\,\nand Fader will sign books after the lecture. This free\, public lecture will\ntake place in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union on Thursday\, March 26\,\n2026. Please RSVP at (https://myumi.ch/15PN8) to let\nus know if you plan to attend. \nOver the past decade\, frum (Orthodox) Jewish women wellness influencers on\nsocial media have become a significant presence. Despite attempts by some\nrabbis to silence them\, frum influencers in the United States and Israel\ncontinue to share intimate details of their everyday lives online\, earning a\nliving through the promotion of products linked to their platforms. Professor\nFader’s talk examines the seemingly contradictory worlds these influencers\nnavigate: while claiming new forms of gendered authority\, they simultaneously\nreinforce traditional Jewish family structures and gender roles.\nDrawing inspiration from conservative Christian wellness influencers\, frum\ninfluencers create content that asserts Jewish exceptionalism while fostering\nunexpected exchanges with conservative Christian women. The lecture will\nconsider whether frum social media influencers are subtly promoting illiberal\npolitics through the gendered language of wellness. \n**Ayala Fader  **is professor of anthropology at Fordham University. She is\nthe author of the award-winning books\, _Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next\nGeneration of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn_  (Princeton University Press\, 2009)\nand _Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age_  (Princeton University\nPress\, 2020). Her research has been supported by the National Science\nFoundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fader’s current book\nproject examines the trend of American Orthodox Jews aligning themselves with\na new form of religion on the Christian Right—a public\, political\, racialized\,\nand biblical philosophy\, redefining postwar Judeo-Christianity in the\ncontemporary political landscape. As the founding director of Fordham’s Center\nfor Public Anthropology\, Fader is currently collaborating on the Demystifying\nLanguage Project\, which makes linguistic anthropology a social justice\nresource for public high schools. Fader received her Ph.D. from New York\nUniversity \n** _About the Belin Lecture_**\nSince 1991\, the Frankel Center has hosted an accomplished speaker to present\nthe David W. Belin lecture in American Jewish Affairs. Following the annual\nlecture\, each speaker provides a text version of their talk. This essay is\nthen published in print format and is made available\n(https://www.fulcrum.org/belin?locale=en)**.**  To request a\nspecific year’s lecture book\, please email JudaicStudies@umich.edu. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13395
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/36th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture/
LOCATION:Michigan Union 530 S State St\, Ann Arbor
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SUMMARY:How Ford Transformed Religion in America
DESCRIPTION:What does a motor company and its founder have to do with religion in America?\nA lot\, it turns out. Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of\nthe Episcopal Church\, reader of New Thought texts\, believer in the “gospel of\nreincarnation\,” mass marketer of antisemitic material\, and employer who\ninstitutionalized a social gospel\, Henry Ford’s contributions to American\nmodels of business were informed by and produced for an America he understood\nto be broadly Christian. Though Ford’s efforts at the head of the Ford Motor\nCompany have commonly been understood as secular\, the Motor King was explicit\nthat his work in engineering and auto production was prophetic and meant to\nremake the world. This talk offers a religious history of Henry Ford and the\nFord Motor Company\, repositioning them within critical studies of religion and\nexamining how Ford transformed American religion in the twentieth century. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13937
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/how-ford-transformed-religion-in-america/
LOCATION:202 S Thayer St 202 S Thayer St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,College Students,History,Interfaith,Jewish Learning,Older Adults,Special Guest,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:Hasidic Women in the Media
DESCRIPTION:In a compelling lecture performance\, author Jessica Roda presents themes from\nher groundbreaking book _For Women and Girls Only_ \, joined by actress\,\nwriter\, and producer Malky Goldman—the book’s remarkable protagonist. The\nevent offers a nuanced exploration of the representation of Hasidic female\nidentity in media\, on screen\, and on stage. Goldman\, who was raised in the\nultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem\, shares her deeply\npersonal journey navigating the arts from within and beyond the boundaries of\nher Hasidic upbringing. Through dialogue\, multimedia\, and live performance\,\nthe evening exposes the tensions between tradition and self-expression\,\nvisibility and erasure\, community expectations and artistic freedom. Roda\ncontextualizes Goldman’s story within broader questions of gender\, religion\,\nand representation\, challenging reductive portrayals of Hasidic women in\nmainstream media. Goldman’s voice—grounded\, creative\, and courageous—offers a\npowerful counter-narrative\, reclaiming agency and complexity for Hasidic\nfemale identities on public stages. The performance invites audiences to\nreconsider assumptions and listen to stories often silenced or misunderstood. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13938
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/hasidic-women-in-the-media/
LOCATION:202 S Thayer St 202 S Thayer St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,History,Jewish Learning,Older Adults,Special Guest,Wheelchair Accessible,Women,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:Jewish Journalism in Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the transformation of Jewish\njournalism during the interwar years (1918–1939) and World War II\, an era of\nprofound upheaval. Panelists will analyze how Jewish newspapers and journals\nbecame vital platforms for political\, literary\, and cultural engagement. The\ndiscussion will highlight dramatic shifts in journalistic practices\, including\nevolving editorial strategies\, reporting methods\, and technological\ninnovations in format and distribution and the transnational and transcultural\nelements that come to the fore during that time. Panelists will also examine\nthe economic pressures and opportunities that shaped the Jewish press\, and\nconsider the influence and role of Jews as journalists within the broader\nmedia landscape. \n**Gilad Halpern** \, journalist and media historian\, draws on recent doctoral\nresearch on The Palestine Post amid imperial decline and rising nationalism\,\nbridging professional and scholarly perspectives.**Naomi Brenner** explores\nentertainment fiction in the Hebrew and Yiddish press\, focusing on the\naesthetics and politics of the roman-feuilleton as a transnational literary\nform.**Matthew Handelman** investigates the cultural politics of German Jewish\nintellectuals and the primacy of culture in political discourse from the\nWeimar Republic onward. \nCentral to the conversation is the role of Jewish periodicals as spaces for\ncultural expression\, literary experimentation\, and political debate. These\npublications not only documented Jewish life\, but also actively shaped\nidentities\, fostered transnational dialogue\, and provided forums for writers\,\nartists\, and intellectuals grappling with questions of survival and belonging.\nThis roundtable offers timely insights into journalism during a time of\ncrisis\, illuminating enduring questions about Jews and media. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13936
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/jewish-journalism-in-dark-times/
LOCATION:202 S Thayer St 202 S Thayer St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,Educational,History,Jewish Learning,Older Adults,Special Guest,Wheelchair Accessible,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:When Hebrew Met the Machine
DESCRIPTION:What happens when an ancient language meets modern technology? This lecture\nwill discuss the role played by media technologies—such as the phonograph\,\ntypewriters\, the telegraph\, and computers—in the revitalization and\nmodernization of Hebrew since the end of the nineteenth century. After lying\ndormant for two millennia as a mainly written language\, Hebrew awoke from its\nliterary slumber and became a living modern vernacular. The revitalization of\nHebrew is unique and unprecedented in world history\, and it has been studied\nin various fields; but the role of modern media technologies in mediating this\nrevival has not yet been considered. This lecture will delve into questions\nsuch as: what was the role of sound recording technologies in shaping the\nreemerging modern Hebrew speech? And how did the Hebraized typewrite pushed\nfor the modernization of writing in Hebrew?. It will show how these media\,\nwhose emergence ran in historical parallel to the revitalization of Hebrew\,\nwere an active force in shaping the language as a modern communicative medium.\nHebrew was a historical media lab: written from right to left and in unique\nscript\, it posed technical as well as conceptual challenges to media which\nwere originally designed for Latin script and Western writing systems. The\nadaptation of these technologies to Hebrew required various adaptations that\nshaped lingual mechanisms\, which had social and political ramifications on the\nemerging Hebrew culture. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13596
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/when-hebrew-met-the-machine/
LOCATION:South Thayer Building 202 S Thayer St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,College Students,Educational,History,Jewish Learning,Older Adults,Science & Technology,Special Guest,Young Adults
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