There’s a lot wrong with the Judaic Studies Program here at Syracuse. Given inter-university infighting between schools, it’s been almost impossible to hire a historian which means we are the only Judaic Studies Program in the world with a history component. And given the small faculty, we decided to focus on Modern Judaic Studies. Usually we don’t have so much Holocaust. It was a fluke this year. Here’s what we got, creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing).