"American Jewish History"  -  Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, with joint appointment in the department of history and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.  She is also director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History.  She has built her scholarly career around the study of American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of American women.  She has written about the ways in which American Jews in the early twentieth century reacted to the issue of race and the suffering of African Americans, and the process by which American Jews came to invest deep meaning in New York's Lower East Side.  Her most recent book addresses post-World War II American Jews, in the period up to 1962, and their intense engagement with the Holocaust.  She has also written about other immigrant groups and the contours of their migration and settlement, including a study of Irish immigrant women and of Irish, Italian, and east European Jewish foodways.

        Israeli Playwright, Doran Ben-Atar, talks about his new play, Peace Warriors, with Hillel and Judaic Studies students

        from left:  Jake, Doron, and Eli

from left, bottom row:  Bonnie Cramer, Union College; Deb Geiger, Director of the Soref Initiative, Hillel International; Patti Sheinman, Wellesley College; Ted Merwin, Dickinson College

from left, top row:  Marc Bragin, Kenyon College; Bruce Bromberg Seltzer, Smith/Amherst Colleges; Wayne Firestone, President, Hillel International; Nancy Luberoff, Elon College

The kosher cooking class was held in the kitchen of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life.  Located on the campus of Dickinson College, the center brings together students, faculty and community members to celebrate the Jewish culture and faith.

Students learn how to cook kosher cuisine.  Each year, a student-run cooking club prepares a kosher meal that all students are invited to enjoy.

Over 100 students attended this wonderful welcoming Bagel Brunch held on Sunday, August 30, 2009, on the lawn of the Asbell Center for Jewish Life.