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| Students with Baruch College dean, Jeffrey Peck |
On Tuesday May
15, some of our students attended the Sephardic American Jewry Communities and
Contributions panel and exposition, facilitated and presented by the
Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College Performing Arts Center. Our forty attendees enjoyed a panel of impressive speakers, among them Rabbi Marc Angel, Rabbi Emeritus of
Congregation Shearith Israel and author and editor of over 30 books, Dr. Jane
Gerber, professor of Jewish History, noted author and director of the Institute
for Sephardic Studies at the Graduate Center of CUNY and keynote speaker, Lucette
Lagnado, award winning writer and reporter for the Wall Street Journal
and author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant
Years. Jeffrey Peck, Dean of
Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences spoke of his commitment to establishing
a Sephardic Studies department. The program offered a tremendous insight into the
Sephardic past and an opportunity to see our ancestors through a critical lens
and an academic view.