Tuesday, September 24, 5:30-8:00 pm 

Natural Science Building 116, 288 Farm Lane.

Film: Home 

Israel, Hebrew with English subtitles. 

A young and recently married Orthodox man’s dream to open a computer store in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem turns into a violent nightmare when the entire neighborhood sees him as an existential threat. Turning his whole world upside down, the threat enters his home and puts his marriage to the test, as he faces the reality of his own free will within a predetermined world.

Dr. Nechumi Yaffe is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. Her research examines, from a social psychology perspective, how social norms and authority contribute to the creation and preservation of poverty, with a focus on the ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel and the U.S. Previously, she served as a consultant to the ultra-Orthodox education system, where she authored the curriculum and new history textbook currently used in all ultra-Orthodox high schools in Israel. Her work has been published in several journals, including Evolution and Human Behavior, Frontiers in Psychology, Cities, European Journal of Social Psychology, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Nechumi advised the Israeli government on ultra-Orthodox matters during the COVID-19 crisis and later founded the Hamel Ahdot frontline movement, which mobilized over 100,000 ultra-Orthodox volunteers.

She is also the first ultra-Orthodox woman to integrate into Israeli academia.

Co-sponsors: College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College, College of Social Science, Residential College of Arts and Humanities, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, the Asian Studies Center, International Studies and Programs.