Upcoming Events
May 20, 12pm: Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Jewish American Heritage Month Lunch, Wilmington, Delaware, book talk.
May 21, 8:30pm: Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, PA, book talk. Register here.
Past Events
Mar. 17, 2026: Temple Israel Center, White Plains, NY, book talk (virtual event).
Mar. 15, 2026: Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan book talk.
Mar. 13, 2026: B’Yachad, Reconstructing Judaism’s Conference, in conversation with Deborah Waxman, Philadelphia, PA.
Mar. 8, 2026: Luncheon and 2pm book talk: Jewish Community Alliance (JCA) of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.
Feb. 27, 2026: Maine Line Reform Temple, Wynnewood, PA, book talk.
Feb. 15, 2026: Yom Limmud, Evelyn Rubenstein JCC of Houston, Houston, TX, book talk.
Feb. 4, 2026: Univ. of Minnesota, Center for Jewish Studies 2025-2026 Community Lecture series, “Reconstructing Hadassah Kaplan: A Daughter’s Lessons in the Struggle for Jewish Survival.” To learn more, see here.
Dec. 4, 2025: JCC, Scotch Plains, NJ, book talk.
Nov. 16-17, 2025: “American Jews and Israel: A Complicated Relationship,” Meltzer Trone Conference, Center for Israel Studies, American University, D.C., panel discussion. For details, see here.
Nov. 6, 2025: Bala Cynwyd Library, Bala Cynwyd, PA, Book Talk.
Oct. 30, 2025: West End Synagogue and SAJ, Virtual Book Conversation with Mel Scult (Brooklyn College).
Oct. 26, 2025: Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El Sisterhood, Wynnewood, PA. Reading Group, Book Conversation with Leora Eisenstadt (Temple University).
Oct. 21, 2025: Book Talk, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ.
Sept. 25, 2025: “Reconstructing Hadassah: Centering American Women’s Roles in a Jewish Homeland,” Annual Frank X. Gerrity Lecture, President’s Lounge, Campion Student Center, St. Joseph’s University.
Sept. 14, 2025: “Reconstructing Hadassah: How Family Influenced Mordecai Kaplan,” Webinar with the Mordecai Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.
Aug. 6, 2025: Shirat Hayam, Ventnor, NJ. Book Conversation with Toby Rosenthal (Stockton University).
July 31, 2025: The Jewish Museum, Manhattan, NY. Ben Shahn’s Social Realism, Spirituality, and Judaism, a Gallery Talk with curator Laura Katzman (James Madison University).
July 26, 2025: Camp Yavneh, Northwood, NH. Book Talk.
July 10, 2025: Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms, Lords Valley, PA. Book Talk.
June 16, 2025: Wonderland Books, Bethesda, MD, Book conversation with Miriam Eisenstein (daughter of Judith (Kaplan) and Ira Eisenstein).
May 27, 2025: Gratz College, Mandell Campus, Melrose Park, PA, Lunch and Learn.
May 5, 2025: Beth Zion Beth Israel, Philadelphia, Book conversation with Nancy Leaderman (BZBI Adult Education Committee Chair).
April 9, 2025: Weitzman National Museum of American History, Docent Talk.
Event Recordings
“History and Politics, A Special Relationship?”
The 2025 Meltzer Trone Conference on American Jews and Israel: A Complicated Relationship. Recordings of the full conference can be found here.
Book conversation with Miriam Eisenstein
A book conversation with Miriam Eisenstein (daughter of Judith (Kaplan) and Ira Eisenstein) at Wonderland Books, Bethesda, MD, June 16, 2024.
“Covid-19, The Great Depression, and the Battle Between Memory and Forgetting”
A public forum from Living New Deal, December 2022.
“Family Affairs: Jewish Ruptures, Mourning, and Belonging”
A panel discussion with David Slucki (College of Charleston), moderated by Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College), “Recounting Personal History,” Family Series, Center for Jewish History, Feb. 3, 2021. Watch here on Facebook.
“Tax Funded Smut Here! Government Funding Woes”
From the “Are You For Sale” podcast, interviewed by Miguel Gutierrez, 2021.
“Mordecai Kaplan: Memories and Personal Legacies”
Speaking event at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA, 2008.