The President and Dean of the New York Campus of
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
cordially invite you to the Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture
Contemporary Culture & Progressive Religion

A Conversation With

Alana Newhouse Edward Rothstein
Tablet Magazine The Wall Street Journal
Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 5:30 PM
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
One West Fourth Street, New York, NY
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Alana Newhouse is the editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine, which she founded in 2009. Before that, she spent five years as culture editor of the Forward, where she supervised coverage of books, films, dance, music, art, and ideas. She also started a line of Forward-branded books with W.W. Norton and edited its maiden publication, A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Alana has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate and others.
Edward Rothstein is Critic at Large for The Wall Street Journal where he writes about museums, books, the arts, and ideas. He is also a regular contributor to the online magazine Mosaic which published his much-discussed essay, “The Problem with Jewish Museums.” For 20 years he was Critic at Large for The New York Times; he also served as the paper’s Chief Music Critic. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. He is the author of "Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics” and a co-author of “Visions of Utopia.”
The Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Bamberger family in memory of their father, Dr. Fritz Bamberger, z"l, who served as Assistant to the President and Professor of Intellectual History at HUC-JIR/New York.
The Dr. Fritz Bamberger Memorial Lecture will take place at HUC-JIR during
Symposium One: Crafting Jewish Life in a Complex Religious Landscape on November 13-14, 2016.
Join a provocative discussion with renowned thought leaders as we explore how the arts, technology, and traditional Jewish law can advance our vibrant progressive Jewish culture. Learn more.