Professor Susan Ackerman has been appointed president of the American Schools of Oriental Research, an organization that supports and encourages the study of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.
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On December 7, 2013, Professor Susannah Heschel gave the keynote address at Erudition and Commitment: A conference in honour of Angelika Neuwirth, held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin. The theme of her talk was "Islam and Jewish-German Self Understanding."
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Professor Susannah Heschel spoke with The Atlantic about plans to build a multi-faith prayer space atop the ruins of St. Peter’s Church in Berlin.
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NPR reached out to Ronald Green, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, about the ethical challenges of research that some believe could lead to the creation of “designer babies.”
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In a story about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, The Washington Post interviewed Professor Susannah Heschel on how recent events commemorating the 1963 march have evoked memories of the relations between African Americans and Jews.
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