How do we best educate ourselves about topics as polarizing, and emotionally and politically charged, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Professor Michal Raucher will share how she approaches this challenge teaching a large lecture class in a diverse campus, helping students engage with a wide range of perspectives through tools like a comparative news analysis. Join us for a conversation that explores not only what students are learning on campuses today, but also how all of us might better understand each other across deep divides.
Dr. Michal Raucher is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, where her teaching includes a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She recently completed her second book, The New Rabbis, an ethnography of women rabbis in American Orthodoxy.