There is always a table.
Discussion salons, home-cooked meals, film screenings, conversations with visiting professors. Intellectual hospitality — every student welcome.
There is always a table at Vassar for your student. The Program — through its Director and through faculty colleagues across the College — keeps an open and active social life around its intellectual work: intellectual salons on a single text or question; home-cooked meals in faculty kitchens; conversations with visiting professors in the days around their lectures; and film screenings on contemporary Jewish life, history, and art, followed by discussion that runs as long as anyone wants.
Students who come from observant homes are welcome. Students who come from no Jewish home at all are welcome. Students who have never thought about being welcome anywhere in particular are warmly welcome. The premise is secular and intellectual: Jewish life in its plurality is interesting enough to gather around, with or without religious commitment.
To be invited — or to suggest a film, a guest, or a question worth a salon — write to maepstein@vassar.edu or agveto@vassar.edu.
