Mark Oppenheimer on Jewish Resilience: Campus Lessons–for Jews of Any Age

At the Annual Joan Bruder Danoff Lecture at Temple Sinai in Stamford, journalist and podcaster, Mark Oppenheimer, will reflect on how Jewish learning and cultural awareness serve us throughout our lives, whether in the college classroom, raising children, or in taking our rightful place in American society.
Mark Oppenheimer has covered American religion for 25 years. He holds a PhD in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College and Yale, where he was the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative. From 2010 to 2016, he wrote the “Beliefs” column about religion for the New York Times and he has also written for publications including The New Yorker, The Nation, GQ, Slate, plus others. He created “Unorthodox”, the world’s most popular podcast about Jewish life and culture, with over 7 million downloads.
More recently, Oppenheimer hosted an eight part podcast called Gatecrashers, about the history of Jews and antisemitism at Ivy League schools. He has authored five books including “The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia” and most recently, “Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood”. He is currently editor of “Arc”, the magazine of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He and his family live in Connecticut.
The annual Danoff lecture series honors longtime Sinai members Joan and the last Dr. Stuart Danoff. It was endowed by their children, Nancy Danoff, Suzy Panerman and Will Danoff