2019-2020 Events and Programs

9/18/2019       
Welcome Week Panel: “Welcoming in NE Ohio: Past, Present, Future”
Cosponsor with CLASS and Welcome Week

9/25/2019       
Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival on Campus: Denial
Cosponsored with Pi Sigma Alpha

Denial Flyer

10/07/2019     
Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival on Campus: Dear Fredy (National Coming Out Day)
Cosponsored with the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies and YSUnity

Dear Freddy Flyer

10/11/2019     
“Pizza in the Hut” – Sukkah building at DeBartolo

11/14/2019     
Jewish-Muslim Forum: Jesus in Jewish and Muslim Traditions
Cosponsored with the Center for Islamic Studies

Flyer for Jewish Muslim forum

11/21/2019     
Bagel Bake with the Club for Jewish Culture

11/21/2019
Film Screening and Discussion: Velvet Revolution
Cosponsored with the History Club and Pi Sigma Alpha

1/16/2020       
Afro-Semitic Experience for Black History Month
Cosponsored with the Black History Month Committee, the Division of Multicultural Affairs, the Division of Student Affairs, Office of the VP of Student Experience, and the Student Activities Diversity Program

Afro-Semitic Experience Flyer

Note: This is not a recording from YSU.

2/20/2020        Linda Borish, “Sports in the Historical Lives of American Jewish Women: Culture, Americanization, and Achievement”
Cosponsored with the Department of History and Keynote for the History Across the Humanities Conference

3/04/2020        Purim Table with Club for Jewish Culture

3/04/2020       
Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival on Campus: 93Queen
Cosponsored with the Department of Nursing, the Department of Health Professions, the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Club for Jewish Culture

93 Queen Flyer

A number of in-person events were cancelled due to COVID-19.

4/02/2020       
Online discussion of Jewish Veganism and Passover with Jacob Labendz
Organized by the Youngstown Jewish Community Center and cosponsored by CJHS

4/23/2020       
Discussion with Jacob Labendz, “Naming the Jew: Performative Antisemitism and the Alt-Right” (online)
Hosted by Ohio University Sociology & Anthropology Colloquium and Hillel Ohio University, and cosponsored by CJHS