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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Please join us for this very special program at the beginning of February!</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><b><u><a href="https://meltoncenter.osu.edu/events/jewish-cooking-around-world" id="OWA1db1a03d-3fac-1c24-2968-6b43463e83eb" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Jewish
Cooking Around the World</a></u></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><img alt="food market in Israel" id="x_Picture_x0020_1" width="600" height="399" size="75025" contenttype="image/jpeg" style="width: 6.25in; height: 4.1666in; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DB6DB5.73258AF0"></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">February 3, 2025</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">12:45 – 2:15pm</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Ohio Union Instructional Kitchen</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Ohio Union Lower Level, 1739 N. High Street</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Free and open to the public</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Join Ari Ariel (University of Iowa) for a cooking demonstration highlighting Jewish foods from around the world. You will
get to taste samples of different dishes and think about how food is connected to Jewish history and ethnic identity.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Seating is limited, and reservations are required. Email Hannah Kosstrin (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:kosstrin.1@osu.edu" id="OWAddfe8941-b379-7984-abcd-88c2927522a5" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">kosstrin.1@osu.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">)
to register.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><img alt="Professor Ari Ariel" id="x_Picture_x0020_2" width="264" height="264" size="12321" contenttype="image/jpeg" style="width: 2.75in; height: 2.75in; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DB6DB6.028D6D20"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Ari Ariel is an Associate Professor of Instruction in History and International Studies at the University of Iowa. His work
focuses on Jewish communities in the Arab world and Mizrahi communities in Israel, and he is particularly interested in the impact of migration on foodways and other cultural practices.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><i>Supported by the Thomas and Diann Mann Symposium fund.</i></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Hannah Kosstrin, PhD</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Director, Melton Center for Jewish Studies</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Associate Professor, Department of Dance</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">and Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures by courtesy</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">Affiliate Faculty: Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Mershon Center for International Security Studies</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;">The Ohio State University</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="mailto:kosstrin.1@osu.edu" id="OWAbd319968-a000-48f8-4de3-a4be58d99c06" class="OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:kosstrin.1@osu.edu" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">kosstrin.1@osu.edu</a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="https://dance.osu.edu/people/kosstrin.1" id="OWA2cb0f317-48a3-5f59-d8ca-72e4ecbfd72e" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://dance.osu.edu/people/kosstrin.1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://dance.osu.edu/people/kosstrin.1</a></u></span></p>
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