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Jewish Heritage Center
58:28
Chop Suey on Shabbat: How American Jews Embraced Chinese Food 

Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center’s Curhan Scholar Shiyong Lu will explore the interactions between American Jews and Chinese food purveyors, and how adaptations arose in restaurants and home cooking in response to the cuisine’s tremendous popularity among Jews and its violation of kashrut (Jewish dietary laws).

Family History Research
1:10:16
From Dates to Stories: How Timelines Can Transform Your Family History Research

In this online lecture, Senior Genealogist Rhonda R. McClure will discuss how examining dates in relation to one another in a timeline uncover new stories of your family tree.

American Inspiration Author Series
1:05:11
"A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution" with Andrew Lawler

As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in uniting the colonies against Britain. A Perfect Frenzy chronicles these stunning and widely overlooked events for the first time.