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Join us for this year's first event in CIS's Roundtable Series on Gaza:

"Gaza Beyond the Strip: Histories and Possibilities of a Middle Eastern Borderland"Ìý
Featuring guest speaker Dr. Dotan HalevyÌýof Tel Aviv University via zoom

Boxed vegetarian lunches will be served
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Please join us for the 2025 Margolis Family Lecture
7 p.m. | Thursday | September 18th, 2025Ìý
ÄÛÌïÑо¿Ôº¹ÙÍø's Casadesus Hall, FA 117

Guest speaker:ÌýJordan Rosenbaum,ÌýBelzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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This talk addresses the age-old Jewish taboo on eating pig and its historical importance as a popular metaphor for Jewish/non-Jewish identity. ÌýFrom the Bible to the Talmud to modern television shows, we follow the pig's forages through Jewish history.

Speaker biography: Professor Jordan Rosenblum is the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us ÄÛÌïÑо¿Ôº¹ÙÍø Rabbinic Literature (2020); The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (2016); and Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (2010). His most recent book Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award.

This event is sponsored by the Rabbi Moses Margolis Lecture Fund, the Judaic Studies Department, and the College of Jewish Studies.

Come hear about all of the funded Summer internships and fellowships offered through the Department of Judaic Studies.

Boxed vegetarian lunches will be served