Reinventing Rosh Hashanah

What are you doing to mark the Jewish new year? Susan Seligson (BU Today/Bostonia Magazine) interviews a number of people on campus who share their ideas. See http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/reinventing-rosh-hashanah/.

The Silvermans at BU

Reserve your seat for Sister Act: Comedienne Sarah Silverman and BU alumna Reform Rabbi Susan Silverman in conversation with Dean Virginia Sapiro (CAS) on growing up Jewish in New Hampshire and making the best of it.
SMG Auditorium, November 8@8pm.
BUID required to rsvp and for admission.
Go to http://www.bu.edu/otherwithin/events to rsvp.

The curious case of the Falash Mura

This summer, Len Lyons, who previously spoke at BU on the absorption of Ethiopians in Israel, has visited the remaining community of Falash Mura in Ethiopia. His report of this group of "others within" appears in the current edition of the Forward.