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2009-2010
Baer Scholarship Recipient
Carly Coons
Carly Coons comes to CU from Greenwood Village, Colorado and is pursuing a major in International Affairs with a Religious Studies minor. She plans on graduating in 2012 and hopes to pursue a career that involves travel while working within the Jewish community.
In addition to being our featured student in the Certificate program, we are excited to announce that Carly was awarded the 2009-2010 Sue & Barry Baer Scholarship in Jewish Studies. This annual scholarship is awarded to the most promising student in the Certificate in Jewish Studies Program each year.
An excellent student, Carly is very involved in Hillel, serving on the student board, the Shabbat committee and helping run the monthly community service program. She also recently wrote the Reform service that Hillel leads on Friday evenings.
"The Certificate in Jewish Studies is an important part of my University education as it helps me apply things I have learned through my 12 years in religious school to contemporary issues like gender and society, international relations, and how Jewish culture incorporates the lessons from the Holocaust and continues to grow and evolve around the world. The classes in the program expand my academic knowledge while helping me apply this knowledge to my personal life and current world issues."
Congratulations Carly on being selected as the 2009-2010 Baer Scholarship recipient!
To learn more about the Sue & Barry Baer Scholarship or to make a tax-deductible gift to the Program in Jewish Studies
visit www.cufund.org
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Kol Mevaser - The Voice of Jewish Studies at CU-Boulder!
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Have a fantastic summer break and good luck to all CU graduates as you move on to your next adventure. We look forward to seeing returning students in the Fall!
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Faculty Updates...
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Naomi Gale will be continuing to teach at CU through Fall 2009! In addition to a course offered through the CU Law School this summer on Israel Law, Professor Gale will be teaching Anthropology Special Topics class, Cultures of the Middle East (ANTH4020-005) for Fall 2009. For more information on this and other Jewish Studies courses, visit our website at www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies.
Mark Leiderman, associate professor of Russian and Chair of the Russian Department and affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies at CU, will be participating in an Interdisciplinary Conference presented by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies entitled Totalitarian
Laughter: Cultures of the Comic under Socialism on May 15-17. For more information, visit www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2009-80-40.cfm
David Shneer has been invited to participate in a one-day planning meeting with J Street (www.jstreet.org) on new approaches to Israel education in Washington D.C. and will include a meeting with staff of the current U.S. administration at the White House. He will also be presenting at Limmud Colorado taking place at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Memorial Day Weekend. Please see our community announcements below for more information on Limmud. Professor Shneer will also be a featured speaker at Exhibiting Ourselves (www.exhibitingourselves.org), a conference on ethnic museums sponsored by the Arizona Historical Society in Phoenix on June 6. He will also be serving on the faculty at the National Yiddish Book Center (www.yiddishbookcenter.org) during the month of June.
Davide Stimilli reviewed Charlotte Schoell-Glass's recent book Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism: Political Perspectives on Images and Culture which has just been published by the Wayne State University Press. To read his review, visit www.caareviews.org
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Year-End Message from Professor David Shneer...
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It is hard to believe that my first year at CU and as the director for the Program in Jewish Studies is already coming a close. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to the faculty and staff of the University for being so welcoming, encouraging and enthusiastic. Everyone's contributions have allowed us to succeed in ways that our executive committee (Zilla Goodman, Janet Jacobs, Paul Shankman, Davide Stimilli, and myself) could not have dreamed of when we put together our strategic plan last summer.
A few fun facts I would like to share:
1. We now have 62 students enrolled in the Certificate Program and will be spending the summer developing a proposal to create a major/minor program in Jewish Studies;
2. We have developed five new courses on the books for Fall 2009 (Writers & Filmmakers of Eastern Europe; Jewish Philosophy seminar: Rosenzweig; Biblical Hebrew; Jews Under Islam; Women, Gender & Sexuality in Judaism) and doubled course offerings from last year. We owe this to our dedicated faculty who have been willing to develop these courses; the Deans of Arts & Sciences who have allowed us to grow to meet student demands; to our donors and funders, who recognize the potential in our program; and to our students, who are filling our courses, demonstrating how important this program is tothe long term success of Arts & Sciences at CU.
3. Our e-newsletter now has more than 2,000 subscribers around the world.
4. With the dedicated help of Mary McGee, our foundation officer at the CU Foundation, we have secured a grant from the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise which will allow us to host Professor Zach Levey from the University of Haifa next year; a future grant from the Posen Foundation that will be used to hire a senior instructor in secular Jewish Studies; individual gifts of more than $20,000; plus we have submitted applications for two additional grants that will be used to support curriculum and program growth.
5. Our students are consistently praising Jewish Studies for being, in their words, "an oasis at a large university," "a unit that always knows how to help when I need it," "some of the best teachers on campus," "and willing to go the extra mile to help me find information I need."
We would like to acknowledge our donors and funders, who in these challenging economic times, have truly made so much possible in our first year:
Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado
American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Bugdanowitz-Toltz Family Philanthropy Fund
Hannah S. & Samuel A. Cohn Memorial Foundation
The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County
G & R Quit Partnership
Gerald & Lorna Gray Family Fund
Jewish Community Foundation of Colorado
Margolis & Associates
Menorah Boulder Center for Adult Jewish Education, Inc.
Rabbi Goldberger Charity & Discretionary Fund
Rose Community Foundation
United Way of Santa Fe County
Anonymous Donors
Sue & Barry Baer
Edward & Marlin Barad
Gerald & Kathy Berenstein
Leonard & Harriet Boonin
Rex Burns
Sandra & Lawrence Cohn
William & Sara-Jane Cohen
Elizabeth Dillman
Debbie Foster
Ida Goldberger
Norman Gray
Richard & Eileen Greenberg
George & Sheera Gumbiner
Jack & Lynne Halpern
John & Margaret Hillman
Arlene & Barry Hirschfeld
Daniel & Angela Japha
Bruce Kahn & Susan Litt
Jeffrey & Lois Linsky
Mark Laska & Yael Ridberg
Michael Lezak
Joyce & Gary Lozow
John & Shelia Malcolm
Don & Barbara Margolis
Carol Tucker Martin
Mary McGee & Peter Collegio
Drs. Lester & Kristen Meisenheimer
Beth & Steven Mosie
Roberta & Bernard Naiman
David Pearlman
Essie & Jordon Perlmutter
Kelli Pfaff
Gerald & Roberta Quiat
Diane & Daniel Friedlander
Margaret Krauss Rosenthal
Paul Rosenthal
Ira & Susan Ross
Karen & Ron Rubin
Susan Schaffner
Steven & Carolyn Schuham
David Shneer & Gregg Drinkwater
Janice & Sheldon Steinhauser
Tom & Barbara Trager
Warren & Ruth Toltz
Martin & Gloria Trotsky
Linda & Dr. Rodney Tuenge
Francine Lavin Weaver
Nicky Wolman & David Fulker
Stay tuned for some fun summer events and watch for information on our 2009-2010 Community Collaboration - Radical Jews!
Enjoy the summer and congratulations to all our CU graduates.
David Shneer
Associate Professor, History
Director, Program in Jewish Studies
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Congratulations to our Certificate Graduates....
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 Deborah Caldwell is graduating with a degree in Anthropology. Originally from Louisiana she calls Broomfield home. She decided to to complete a Certificate in Jewish Studies as it coincided with her interest in anthropology and archaeology of the Middle East, particularly Israel. She plans to continue her studies with graduate school in the near future. "The courses I have taken withing the Jewish Studies program have proven to be some of the most instructional, challenging, and thought-provoking courses of my college career."
Nathaniel Edelstein graduated in December with a degree in Broadcast News. He is currently working in New York for Major League Baseball Productions and hopes to make a career in the sports world either in broadcasting or public relations. Nathaniel spent his junior year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and hopes someday to make his way back to Israel. "I knew that attaining a Certificate in Jewish Studies would give me an opportunity to explore careers outside of my major and would also add to my resume in pursuing a career in journalism. Most importanly, I knew it would make me a more well-rounded person. My college experience would not have been complete without the Program in Jewish Studies. It allowed me to learn more about an area of study I had an interest in and the courses were always interesting with insightful and engaging professors."
Joel Pratt is graduating with a degree in English. A very involved student and a former Baer Scholar, Joel is hoping to stay in Boulder and continue to teach and work within the Jewish community with possible long term goals of attending Hebrew Union College. Joel feels the Certificate in Jewish Studies has been "a natural extension of his discovery while at CU."
 Hannah Shakin completes her time at CU with a dual degree in Spanish and Psychology. Unsure of what the immediate future holds, Hannah is grateful for all that the Program in Jewish Studies has provided. "College was my first opportunity to learn about and become involved in the Jewish community and culture. I think that the more diverse a curriculum a university can offer, the better. I would love to see CU continue to expand academic offerings of different cultures and religions."
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Updates and News...
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Jewish Studies Certificate student Kara Zucker has just completed a Semester at Sea through CU's Study Abroad office. Read about her adventure around the globe on her blog at http://karazucker.blogspot.com. For more information on Study Abroad Programs visit http://study.abroad.colorado.edu. Students can now search for programs that offer Jewish Studies options around the world.
Interested in an informal summer Hebrew Reading Group? Megan Roberts has been teaching and living overseas but will be returning to the Boulder area for June and July. She is looking to form an informal group that would meet once a week to improve Hebrew translation, syntax and grammar skills. Interested? Email megan.c.roberts@gmail.com
Limmud Colorado is May 22-25 and will take place on our sister campus in Colorado Springs. Registration closes May 8! Scholarships are still available for attendees under 40 and for Boulder residents. To learn more, visit, www.limmudcolorado.org.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado presents a special lecture with Joe Cahn on New York City Resources for Researching Jewish Genealogy on May 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Temple Emanuel. For more information, email grapevynwest@comcast.net.
Join the Program in Jewish Studies at the 15th Annual Boulder Jewish Festival Sunday, June 7 from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. on the Courthouse Lawn and Pearl Street Mall. A one-day celebration of Jewish culture featuring community organizations, ethinic food, live entertainment and activities for all ages. For more information, visit www.boulderjewishfestival.org
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