Student Activity

• Hillel
• Study Abroad Opportunities
• Capstone Projects

Hillel

Provides educational, cultural, and social involvement opportunities for Jewish students to assist in the historical commitment to a pluralist community.

Study Abroad Opportunities

• Rothberg International School-Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Ben Gurion University Overseas Student Program
• International School at the University of Haifa
• Tel-Aviv University

Capstone Projects

As part of the Jewish Studies Program’s independent study requirements, students must complete a detailed exploration of literature, authors, a selected time period, a historical or religious topic, or issue related to Jewish Studies. This exercise engages students in library or action research, research design or application, or creative work in the arts under a faculty member’s direction.  This exercise culminates the minor in Jewish Studies. 

Emily Moniz ’04, “The Last of the Portuguese Jews: Sweetbread, Synagogue, and Saudades,” critical narrative/memoir on Jewish identity and the Portuguese-American community (L. Roth, Director).

Shannon Nagy ’05, helping to research and co-write with the Coordinator an entry on “The Holocaust in Film” for the Encyclopedia of Religion & Film (L. Roth, Director).

Emily Torricelli  ’05, “Academic Dishonesty,” original screenplay in which she explored lures and consequences of “discovering” a Holocaust primary source (a diary) in order to complete an assignment in a historiography seminar (L. Roth, Director).

Sharon Berman ’07, “Targum” (Hebrew for “translation”), a paper in which she translated a chapter from Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible and a poem by Yehuda Amichai, two works of Hebrew literature that speak to and against each other through their use of similar tropes and themes (L. Roth, Director).

Amanda Zucker ’07, “Culture, Community, and the Role of Jewish Publishing in America” (L. Roth, Director).