For Yom HaShoah, Professor Rachel Slutsky of Seton Hall University will be our guest speaker at 7 p.m.

Female Nazis, Female Jews: Women of the Holocaust and Their Legacies

Professional Bio:

Rachel Slutsky holds the Monsignor John Oesterreicher Assistant Professorship in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity at Seton Hall University. She completed her doctorate in ancient Judaism at Harvard University in May 2022. Dr. Slutsky's work explores the ways in which ancient and modern discourses employ Jewish law to cultivate communal self-understanding in juxtaposition to other Jews and the non-Jewish world more broadly. She is currently working on her first monograph, tentatively titled The Gentile Enigma: Divine Law and Identity in Early Judaism, based on her dissertation. Her work on Jewish and Gentile relations inform her ongoing involvement in Holocaust education. To that end, Dr. Slutsky has held a Pedagogy Fellowship from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. She lives in Linden, NJ, with her husband and daughter.