Maya Balakirsky Katz

• The Sacred Geography of Contemporary Hasidism

Murray Baumgarten

• New York Jewish Writers and the Argument for Justice

Judah M. Cohen

• Debbie Friedman as Liturgist, Composer, and Musician
• The Cantor in American Jewish Life
• What We Can Learn from Holocaust-themed Musicals
• The Sound of Jewish Life” title to “Emerging American Jewish Sounds:  The (Intentionally) Forgotten 19th Century

Steven M. Cohen

• The Shrinking Jewish Middle: The Impact of High Intermarriage and Low Fertility on American Jewry
• From the Sovereign Self to Partial Jews: Generational Shifts in Jewish Identity
• Ensuring Our Jewish Future: A Special Message for Parents and Grandparents
• From Peoplehood to Purposeful: The Emerging Identities of Younger Adult American Jews
• Distancing or Distress? American Jews’ Changing Relationship with Israel
• From Chosen People to People Who Choose: The Panorama of Diversity in American Jewry
• The Major Challenges Facing Jewish Leaders and Synagogues Today

David G. Dalin

• Jews and American Politics: Retrospect and Prospect
• Jews and Sports
• The Presidents of the United States and the Jews: From Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama and Beyond

Deborah Dash Moore

• Urban Origins of American Judaism
• Jews and American Cities

Lynn R. Davidman

• The Whitening of the Jewish Immigrants
• Stories of Leaving Hasidic Life
• Tensions Between Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Jewish Life

Nathaniel Deutsch

• The rise of Haredi Judaism and the Future of the Jewish People
• The Status of Women in Contemporary Haredi Communities
• The Role of Minhag (custom) in the Creation of Modern Jewish Movements

Arnold Dashefsky

• Charitable Choices among American Jews
• Interfaith Marriage and Jewish Journeys: What Does the Future Hold for American Jews?
• Will the Jewish People Endure? Changes in Jewish Identity through Time and Place
• Tradition and Change: The Rise and Fall and Rise (?) of Conservative Judaism
• American Anti-Semitism: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism?

Matt Goldish

• Screening of the Melton Center film, “The Other Men in Black: The Hasidic Movement Yesterday and Today,” with discussion

Samuel Heilman

• American Orthodoxy: Sliding to the Right?
• Jews and the Presidential Elections
• Lubavitchers, the Mission and the Rebbe
• How Did Fundamentalism Infiltrate Modern Orthodoxy?
• The Future of American Judaism
• Religious Fundamentalism
• Hastening the Messiah: Jewish Messianism Today
• Hasidism in America
• When A Jew Dies: The Ethnography of Jewish Death
• The Writing on the Wall: Jewish Brooklyn and Queens as seen in Posters

Debra Renee Kaufman

• Telling Our Stories and Creating Ourselves: Jewish Identity in the Making
• The Importance of Being Narrative: Separating the Researcher from the Research
• Whose Story Counts When Counting Jews?
• What Does Religion Have to Do With Jewish Identity?
• Beyond Belief, Behavior and Belonging: Can You Still Be Jewish?
• What Place the Holocaust in Contemporary Identity Narratives Among Young Adults in the US and Israel
• ‘Doing Justice’ and Post Holocaust Jewish Identity
• Making the Secular Sacred: Holocaust Narratives and Jewish Identity
• Better the Devil You Know: Feminist Women, Orthodoxy and Choice
• Ba’alot Teshuvah: Revivalists or Traditionalists?
• Paradoxical Politics and Newly Orthodox Jewish Women

Shaul Kelner

• American Jews: A Changing Community

Josh Lambert

• “Strange Times to Be a Jew”: American Jewish Literature in the 21st Century
• “Are Jews Pornographers?”: Obscenity and Jews in America, from the Comstock Laws to Sarah Silverman
• Jewish Literature as Conspiracy
• What can we learn from American Jewish Fiction?

Howard Lupovitch

• Does Judaism have a Diversity Requirement?
• Israelis and American Jews: Do We still Speak the Same Language?

Ted Merwin

• Mixed Blessings: Jewish-Christian Intermarriage in American Comedy
• Between the Sheets: Sex in Jewish Culture

David N. Myers

• American Shtetl: Kiryas Joel, New York

Pamela S. Nadell

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Out of Tragedy Comes Social Justice
• Tevye’s Daughters in America
• Blacks and Jews; Struggles in the American Promised Land
• Telling the American Jewish Story on Independence Mall: The National Museum of American Jewish History
• “Giving Our All the Poor Soldiers”: Jewish Women and the Civil War
• Women Who Would Be Rabbis: The Battle for Women’s Ordination
• Yentl: From Yeshiva Boy to Syndrom
• ‘The Synagog shall Hear the Call of the Sister’: The History of Synagogue Sisterhoods

Vanessa Ochs

• New Jewish Ritual
• Women of the Wall
• The Jewish Wedding

Riv-Ellen Prell

• Is the First Amendment Good for American Jews: Religious Freedom on the College Campus and in the Culture
• What is New About American Jewish Culture in the 21st Century?
• Baby Boomers and their Jewish Summer Camps: The Making of a Cultural Revolution

Adam Rovner

• Nervous Wrecks: Jewish Men and the Women They Love in American Comedy
• Jewish Authors in Search of a Promised Land: The Story of Jewish Territorialism

Jonathan Sarna

• Looking Ahead: American Judaism in the 21st Century

Shuly Rubin Schwartz

• Baskin-Robbins Has 31 Flavors – How About American Judaism?
• From Jewess Jeans to Juicy JAPs: Clothing and Jewish Stereotypes
• Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: The Evolution of American Jewry

Leonard Saxe

• Taglit-Birthright Israel/Engaging Jewish Young Adults with Israel and their Jewish Identity
• The Size and Character of the American Jewish Population/Is the U.S. Jewish Community Assimilating Away?
• The Jewish Future in America: Musings of Social Scientist

Ilan Troen

• Comparing America and Israel; Or, Can/should Israel be Americanized?