Inter-Disciplinary Programs Updated 2013 2

Upper School Inter-Disciplinary Programs
2009-2013
Inter-disciplinary programs at the Upper School are viewed as a way of reinforcing the concept of an integrated curriculum between various subjects and Judaic and General studies. In addition, as stated in our mission statement, these programs exhibit: a commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, to intellectual rigor, to scholarship, and to a life-long love of learning. The annual grade-wide programs combine the talents and knowledge base of our own faculty alongside outside experts, both scholars and lay persons. Every program caters specifically to the curricular and developmental needs of each grade on various topics including Science and Religion, Law and Religion, Zionism and the History of the Jewish Book.
SPEAKERS FROM THE PAST FOUR YEARS

Professor Jeffery Shoulson (class of 83), University of Miami, Associate
Grade Wide Programs Keynote Speakers
Professor of English
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of
Efrat, Director of Ohr Torah Stone Institutions Professor Jewish Studies
Professor Jonathan Gribetz (class of 98), Rutgers University, Assistant Professor Eliyahu Stern, Yale University, Assistant Professor of
Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History
Professor Hartley Lachter, Muhlenberg College, Associate
Professor of Religion Studies Jill Katz, Yeshiva University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Professor David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania,
Professor of Modern Jewish History

Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, Yeshiva University, Vice Provost and
Professor of Jewish Studies
Professor Samuel J. Rascoff (class of 91), NYU Law School, Associate
Professor of Law Professor of Law
Professor Michael Helfand, Pepperdine University, Associate Elana Stein Hain, Lincoln Square Synagogue, Community Scholar Professor Alex Kaye, Princeton University, Post-Doctoral Fellow Professor Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University, Professor of Professor Jane S. Gerber, CUNY Graduate Center, Professor of
Senior Inter-Disciplinary Speakers
Jewish History, Culture and Society
Jewish history and the director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies
Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Princeton University, Doctoral fellow Maya Benton, International Center of Photography (ICP), curator
TRIPS FROM THE PAST FOUR YEARS

One of the goals of the inter-disciplinary programs is to maximize certain cultural opportunities that are occurring in New York City. The museums, exhibits, and historical sites of New York are the perfect way to complement and supplement our students regular classroom education. Every trip we take is buttressed with educational preparation and planned with foresight to maximize our educational goals. One component of every 9th graders experience is an educational trip to see an exhibit in the City that is related to their World Jewish History curriculum. From studying the Second Temple Period and the Essenes at the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit in Times Square to learning about Jewish Life under Islam from documents from the Cairo Genizah at the Jewish Museum, the students understanding is greatly enhanced and enriched by these experiences. In addition, for the past three years, seniors who have participated in the Inter-Disciplinary Seminar have taken part in a series of fascinating experiences outside the walls of Ramaz all thematically relevant to their seminar. These trips have ranged from 30 minute excursions to the Met to 2 hour visits to the JTS Librarys Rare Book Room.
2009 A Journey Through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books, YU Museum at the
Grade Wide Trips
Center for Jewish History

2010 After Chernobyl | A Project by Michael Forster Rothbart, Ukrainian
Institute
2011 The Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times, Discovery
Times Square
2012 Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries, The
Jewish Museum 2012 It's a Thin Line - The Eruv and

Jewish Community in New York and Beyond New York, YU Museum at the
Center for Jewish History

2011 Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan, Institute for the Study of
Senior Inter-Disciplinary Trips
the Ancient World at New York University 2011 Rare Book Room at JTS Library
2012 Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan, ISAW at NYU 2012 Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012 Roman Vishniac Rediscovered,
International Center for Photography 2012 Rare Book Room at JTS Library
2013 "Elaine Reichek: A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited," Jewish
Museum
2013 Steinhardt Illuminated Mishneh Torah, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013 Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in GrecoRoman Antiquity," ISAW at NYU

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SPEAKERS FROM THE PAST FOUR YEARS

Grade Wide Programs Keynote Speakers

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of

Efrat, Director of Ohr Torah Stone Institutions Professor Jewish Studies

Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History

Professor Hartley Lachter, Muhlenberg College, Associate

Professor of Modern Jewish History

Professor of Jewish Studies

Professor Samuel J. Rascoff (class of 91), NYU Law School, Associate

Professor of Law Professor of Law

Senior Inter-Disciplinary Speakers

Jewish History, Culture and Society

TRIPS FROM THE PAST FOUR YEARS

Grade Wide Trips

Center for Jewish History

Jewish Museum 2012 It's a Thin Line - The Eruv and

Center for Jewish History

Senior Inter-Disciplinary Trips

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