We are delighted to have supported Michal Raucher, PhD, associate professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, and her research on religious authority among Orthodox women when she was an HBI Research Associate and HBI Scholar in Residence. theconversation.com/orthodox-jud... #jewsky

Congrats @uofmichigan.bsky.social Prof. Cara Rock-Singer, winner @jewishstudies.bsky.social 2025 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award for "Gestating Judaism: The Corporeal Technologies of American Jewish Religion". Proud to have supported this w/ an HBI Research Award! #jewsky #hbiresearch

This Tuesday! *online* #jewsky

Congratulations to Yehudis Fletcher whose memoir "Chutzpah! A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality, and Daring to Stay is longlisted for the '26 @thewingateprize.bsky.social! On Tues, Nov. 18, Fletcher joins HBI online (11:30 am EST) to share her inspiring/compelling story. Reg: bit.ly/HBIConversat... #jewsky

📢 HBI Seminar with DOTAN BROM 📢 HBI Scholar in Residence DEC 8 / 12:30-1:30 pm EST at HBI & online "The Lesbian Feminists Are the Bridge": Anglo-American Feminists and the Rise of Lesbian Activism in Israel (1971–1987) Info/Reg: bit.ly/HBIEVENTS Looking forward @dotanbrom.bsky.social! #jewsky

Tomorrow, Tues., Nov. 11, online and at HBI!

#HBIConversations: Yehudis Fletcher "Chutzpah! A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay": Nov 18, 11:30 am EST online. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, Fletcher's sexuality conflicted w/ expectations of family and community. Her daring decision: to stay. #jewsky bit.ly/HBIConversat...

👏 to Ayelet Brinn, “A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press”, Rachel Gordan, “Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American”, & all recipients of the AJS 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards! We're proud to have supported both Brinn's and Gordan's research. #jewsky

This week, HBI was pleased to welcome Tal Hochman, executive director of the Israel Women's Network. Hochman spoke about the challenges faced by Israeli women from the war and from legislative proposals brought forth by the current government seeking to limit women's rights. #jewsky

Next week: Dr. Gabriela Spector-Mersel (Sapir College Sadot Resilience and Growth Center) will present findings from her analysis on cases of captive women civilians and the developing interventions to assist them in adapting to routine life after release. 11/11, 1:30 pm EST HYBRID bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

This Thursday at HBI - "Beyond October 7: The Impacts of the War on Israeli Women” with Tal Hochman of the Israel Women's Network ! ⬇️ #jewsky

Last weekend, HBI Director Lisa Fishbayn Joffe was in conversation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in NYC, about her memoir, “Heart of the Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging”. 🙏 Rabbi Buchdahl and to #Brandeis Hillel for organizing!

Exciting news at Brandeis! Congratulations to Flora Cassen on her appointment as the inaugural Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies. www.brandeis.edu/stories/2025... #jewishstudies #brandeisuniversity #jewsky @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social

Next week: Tal Hochman of the Israel Women’s Network discusses challenges for Israeli women since Oct. 7 - job loss, displacement, economic insecurity and more. She will explore these urgent realities & the fight for equality in a time of crisis. Nov. 6, 4 pm at HBI. Reg: forms.gle/AwX2WMZ7T5dB...

Tomorrow! Join HBI for a discussion of surrogacy in the US & Israel with Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, authors of "A Tale of Two Surrogates, A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction", an HBI Research Award-supported book! OCT 30, 12:30 pm EDT online. Register: bit.ly/HBIConversat... #jewsky

Tonight at Brandeis!

The HBI Scholar in Residence Program application for the 2026-27 academic year is open! Apply by Feb. 4, 2026. HBI offers outstanding scholars, writers and artists the opportunity to be in residence at HBI & is open to those working on any aspect of Jewish women’s & gender studies. bit.ly/HBIScholar

Congratulations to 2022 HBI Scholar in Residence @miriamudel.bsky.social on the recent publication of “Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature”! HBI is delighted to have supported Udel and her research on the wonderful, adventurous “New Girl” during her residency. #hbischolar

HBI is delighted to share this news! The Edmond J. Safra Foundation has committed to support the development of #SephardicStudies PhD fellowships at @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social with a generous gift of $1.1 million. 1/2 www.brandeis.edu/gsas/news/ne...

Join HBI online at our next program in the Sandra Seltzer Silberman Conversations Series with Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend on Oct. 30 (12:30 pm EDT), authors of “A Tale of Two Surrogates, A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction”. Register: bit.ly/HBIConversat... #hbiconversations

Please join HBI and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social on October 23 (7 pm) for this important talk with Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict". Info and registration: bit.ly/HBIRuthHalpe...

As we near the second anniversary of October 7, HBI presents a series of programs that consider new research on the impact of the war on the experience of Jewish women in and outside of Israel. Oct 23: Ruth Halperin-Kaddari Nov 6: Tal Hochman Nov 11: Gabriela Spector-Mersel Visit bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

Great to see New Deal lawyer and Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909-1996) finally get her due in the NYT. Supported by an HBI Research Award, lawyer-turned-author Marlene Trestman wrote about Margolin’s astounding life in “Fair Labor Lawyer": www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

An honor to speak w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social recently in HBI's Sandra Seltzer Silberman #hbiconversations Series about the US government's unlawful and horrendous imprisonment of tens of thou­sands of Japan­ese Amer­i­cans in detention camps during World War II. Thank you Tracy! 🙏

Shana Tova, wishing you a sweet and healthy new year from HBI!

HBI’s 1st #hbiconversations event this year is online tomorrow with @tracyslater.bsky.social join us! ⬇️

We’re delighted to have played a role in Gabriella Chiquiar-Rabinovich’s (@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social '27) academic journey. Chiquiar-Rabinovich joined HBI in 2024 as a Gilda Slifka intern and interned with the wonderful @jwaonline.bsky.social this past summer. ⬇️ www.brandeis.edu/stories/2025...

Thursday, Sept. 18/online, Tracy Slater, #brandeis PhD, joins HBI Conversations to discuss her deep look into this dark episode in American history, w/ Brandeis Alumni Assoc. TY @tracyslater.bsky.social! Register: bit.ly/HBIConversat... #jewsky #asianamericanhistory #manzanar #jewishwomen

Tomorrow! Join the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute & the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University to welcome back Shulamit Reinharz, founding director of both, for a talk about her latest book, "Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir". 4 pm EDT Hybrid, in-person/online. bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

We're looking forward and delighted to co-sponsor this author conversation tomorrow, Wed., 9/10, at The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University: Noa Shashar and Professor ChaeRan Freeze on "The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850" bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

You're invited! An opening reception for "Tu Ke Bivas", photo-based artist Becky Behar's immersive presentation tracing Sephardic traditions enacted by her mother and daughter, is happening tomorrow at the Kniznick Gallery! #kniznickgallery #BrandeisUniversity #Sephardic Info: bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

Join HBI & Women's Studies Research Cnt. for the opening reception Sept. 4 of Becky Behar's "Tu Ke Bivas" in the Kniznick Gallery, tracing the Sephardic traditions enacted by her mother and daughter. 🙏@lilithmagazine.bsky.social & @judybf.bsky.social for the great review! lilith.org/2025/08/a-ph...

Join HBI this September! Visit HBI online for the full line-up of September events: bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

The 2026 HBI Research Awards application is open! HBI awards grants each year to support research & artistic projects centered on Jewish women’s & gender studies. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, & established researchers. Apply by Sept. 2, 2025 www.brandeis.edu/hbi/programs...

✨HBI Open House✨ Mon., Sept. 8, 4:30 pm at HBI. Join us to share a bite to eat, meet the HBI community and more. Stay for the conversation: ✨"Jewish College Students Reflect on Israel-Gaza and Campus Polarization"✨ 5:30-6:30 pm, w/ Jonathan Krasner, PhD, and Cheryl Weiner, PhD. bit.ly/HBIEVENTS

The 2026 HBI Research Awards application is open! HBI awards grants each year to support research & artistic projects centered on Jewish women’s & gender studies. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, & established researchers. Apply by Sept. 2, 2025 www.brandeis.edu/hbi/programs...

Looking forward @tracyslater.bsky.social! Register: bit.ly/HBIConversat...

HBI Conversations Series opens this year on SEPT 18 (online) w/ @tracyslater.bsky.social, author of "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp". Cosponsor @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Alumni Association. Info/Register bit.ly/HBIConversat...

Great to see the ongoing working relationship btwn @rachelbgross.bsky.social, HBI Research Assoc./Assoc. Prof., San Fran. State Univ., and Naomi Piper-Pell, rising Mount Holyoke College senior/2024 HBI Gilda Slifka Intern. Last summer, Piper-Pell worked w/ Gross to transcribe Mary Antin's letters..

CALL FOR PAPERS: Nashim No. 48: Jewish Feminism In Canada, Developments In The Field Festschrift honoring Norma Baumel Joseph upon her retirement from Concordia Univ. we seek proposals for papers honoring her leadership in Jewish feminism & Canadian Jewish studies networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Congratulations to HBI's longtime friend and supporter, Debs Weinberg, on being named the next Executive Director of the Jewish Grandparents Network. 1/ jmoreliving.com/2025/07/14/d...

This Thursday, July 17, HBI Gilda Slifka intern Judy Goldstein will present "I Wanna Dance with Somebody": Gender and Romance at Jewish Mutual Aid Dances, at Boston’s Lehrhaus , a not-for-profit, Jewish tavern and house of learning. 1/ www.lehr.haus/classes/i-wa... #jewsky #jewishhistory

👏👏 to recent @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social graduate Dahlia Matanky on receiving the Brandeis Library's Research Excellence Prize for her undergraduate senior thesis: “Sacred Sensuality: Exploring Young Orthodox Women’s Understandings and Experiences of Halakhic and Communal Sexual Norms”. 🔗 ⬇️

We’re delighted to share this July 17 online event “Reproductive Justice, Religion and Art” featuring artist and curator Caron Tabb, artist Zahra Bukhari, and artist and scholar @rcromer.bsky.social #jewsky #reproductivejustice #art #religion Register: purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1/

Congratulations to past HBI intern Fabulous Flores, recently named CEO of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center. At HBI’s internship reunion last summer Flores recalled the internship showed her career paths she didn’t know existed. #holocaust www.jewishexponent.com/holocaust-aw...

HBI is delighted to announce the establishment by Shulamit and Jehuda Reinharz of the Ilse Hertha Strauss Rothschild Research Awards on Women, Gender and the Holocaust. Read more at HBI's Blog www.brandeis.edu/hbi/blog/202... #jewsky #hbiresearchawards #jewishstudies #holocaust #shoah #jewishhistory

Tonight at Lehrhaus (Somerville, MA), HBI Research Associate Samantha Pickette, Ph.D. will discuss "Jewish Identity in the American Girl Brand" ⬇️ www.lehr.haus/classes/rebe... #jewsky #americangirldolls #rebeccarubin #Lehrhaus #hbiresearchassociate

The HBI Series on Jewish Women @brandeispress.bsky.social publishes books about Jewish women’s & gender issues in diverse contexts. WEDDING SONG: MEMOIRS OF AN IRANIAN JEWISH WOMAN is Farideh Goldin's passionate account of her childhood in a poor Jewish household in prerevolutionary Iran...🧵 #jewsky

We’re delighted to welcome HBI’s 2025 Gilda Slifka interns! Each summer undergrad & grad students from around the world work w/ HBI-affiliated Jewish studies & gender studies scholars, develop individual research, visit archives/places of Jewish interest & more. Looking forward to a great summer! 🧵

HBI supports research and writing about Jewish women around the world. In 2017, we were honored to host Roya Hakakian as presenter of the Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights, “Iran's Unfinished Revolution — What Began in 1979 Continues Today”. #jewsky 🧵