On Friday, November 20, at 7:30 Erev Shabbat Services, noted scholar Dr. Susannah Heschel will deliver Temple Sinai’s annual Cohon Memorial Lecture.  She will speak on the topic, Intrigued with Islam: Jewish Scholars, Travelers, and Converts in Modern Europe.  Dr. Heschel is a world-renowned scholar of Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations, the history of anti-Semitism, the history of biblical scholarship and the American Jewish experience.  At Dartmouth University, she holds the Eli Black Professorship of Jewish Studies, and has written extensively on the history of Jewish scholarship on Islam.  She serves at Dartmouth on the faculty in the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Religion, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and is currently in residence at the Humanities Center at Tufts University.  Daughter of the preeminent Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, she has also published a book of his articles and speeches.  Temple Sinai invites the community to attend this timely program.

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