Slifka Center’s Online Salons bring our community together across distance and years, for informed conversation on current topics. Recordings of past presentations are available below.
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Most recent Slifka Online Salon:
On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Yale graduate and current Yale Law student David Hopen ’17, ’23 JD joined Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain at Yale, to discuss his debut novel and National Jewish Book Award Finalist, The Orchard, a coming-of-age story exploring a young man’s transition from Brooklyn to Miami– as featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Participants were encouraged to read The Orchard prior to viewing (recording here), to get much more out of the conversation!
Recordings of previous Slifka Online Salons:
“Rethinking Antisemitism for the 21st Century” originally scheduled for November 2021 was held February 23, 2022. Antisemitism has become a prominent feature of American Jewish life in recent years, and as individuals and a community we have often found ourselves grasping for theoretical frameworks, historical analogues, and practical responses. Hear Professor Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French and Director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, in dialogue with Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, to learn not only about what’s happening on Yale’s campus, but also current academic understandings of antisemitism in our moment.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 @ 8PM ET- Professor Reva Siegel '78, '86 JD and Yale Law School Senior Lecturer and long-time New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent Linda Greenhouse '78 MSL- Abortion Rights: Before and After Roe v. Wade.
Thursday, June 10, 2021 @ 8PM ET -- Miryam Kabakov: Changes are afoot: Hear what's happening to make Jewish spaces LGBTQ+ inclusive
Wednesday, April 12, 2021 @ 8PM ET -- Eli Lebowitz: Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD
Monday, March 22, 2021 @ 8PM ET -- Mark Gerson:
God Didn't Create the Seder to Put You to Sleep
Monday, March 15, 2021 @ 8PM ET -- Dr. Nancy Brown, Dean of Yale School of Medicine:
Learning from the Pandemic: Medical Education in a Post-COVID World
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 @ 8PM ET -- Adam Lehman: Lessons from the Jewish Future
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 @ 8PM ET -- Ross Douthat: A Post-Election The Politics of Community: Contemporary Tensions in Judaism and Catholicism
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 @ 8PM ET -- Remembering RBG: A Slifka Online Salon with Linda Greenhouse 
Thursday, November 5, 2020 @ 8PM ET -- What Just Happened: A Post-Election Conversation with Emily Bazelon and Bryan Garsten
Monday, October 5, 2020 @ 8PM ET -- Fear, Action, Resilience: Jewish Responses to Climate Crisis: A Slifka Online Salon with Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 @ 8PM ET -- The Prophetic Call of Frederic Douglass: A Slifka Online Salon with Professor David Blight, Sterling Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize Winner
Monday, September 14, 2020 @ 8PM ET -- Right Speech as Repentance and Redemption: Rosh Hashanah in an Age of Post-Truth Politics: A Slifka Online Salon taught by Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain at Yale
Monday, August 10, 2020 @ 8PM EDT -- Political Hobbyism vs Political Power: a Slifka Online Salon with Eitan Hersh
Monday, June 29, 2020 @ 8PM EDT -- Prosperity and Suffering in a time of Crisis: a Slifka Online Salon with Daniel Markovits
June 16, 2020 @ 8PM EDT -- Steven Skybell: A Yale Alum and Broadway Star takes on Tevye
Session recording will be available shortly.
May 25, 2020 -- Israel and American Judaism: Blessings and Changes with scholar David Makovsky
May 12, 2020 -- The Supreme Court Today: An Insider's Perspective with Lisa Blatt This Lecture is made possible in part by the Henry Kohn Fund at the Slifka Center
April 22, 2020 -- The Ethical Quandaries of Coronavirus: A Conversation with Professor Shelly Kagan
March 24, 2020 -- An Evening with Marvin Chun, Dean of Yale College