From Brandeis and BG to Bibi

David Ellenson, director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, will deliver this year’s Karen and Pace Robinson Lecture on Modern Israel. Ellenson, a distinguished scholar of Judaism, is Chancellor-Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, he served as president of HUC-JIR from 2001-2013. Ellenson has authored or edited seven books and over 300 articles and reviews in a wide variety of academic and popular journals and newspapers. His newest book, Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice, appeared in September of 2014 in the University of Nebraska/Jewish Publication Society’s “Scholar of Distinction” series. 

The Karen and Pace Robinson Lecture on Modern Israel will take place Thursday, February 22, 2018, at 7 p.m. in the McClung Museum Auditorium. A reception will follow the talk.