{"id":2164949,"date":"2025-11-18T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2164949"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:57:33","slug":"yadin-israel-author-and-professor-presents-judaic-studies-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yadin-israel-author-and-professor-presents-judaic-studies-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Yadin-Israel, Author and Professor, Presents Judaic Studies Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Azzan Yadin-Israel, Ph.D., recently visited The University of Scranton as its featured speaker at the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Yadin-Israel\u2019s presented \u201cSolving the Mystery of Adam and Eve\u2019s Forbidden Fruit\u201d on Thursday, Nov. 13, at the Pearn Auditorium in Brennan Hall. The speech was free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Yadin-Israel is the chair and professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University and the author of the 2022 book, \u201cTemptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute was founded in 1979 through an endowment funded by the local Jewish community. The Institute was further funded in 1990 by a $1 million gift from Harry Weinberg. The lecture series has hosted numerous events and scholarly speakers throughout the years, fostering an appreciation for and understanding of Judaism, Israel and their histories.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9\";\n\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source news.scranton.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azzan Yadin-Israel, Ph.D., recently visited The University of Scranton as its featured speaker at the Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Lecture. Dr. Yadin-Israel\u2019s presented \u201cSolving the Mystery of Adam and Eve\u2019s Forbidden Fruit\u201d on Thursday, Nov. 13, at the Pearn Auditorium in Brennan Hall. The speech was free and open to the public. Dr. Yadin-Israel is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2164950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[360980,360058],"class_list":["post-2164949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-scranton","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Yadin-Israel-Author-and-Professor-Presents-Judaic-Studies-Lecture-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164949\/revisions\/2164951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}