CJS | The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies

Translating the Jewish Freud: A New Book Conversation with Author Naomi Seidman

Please join us for a special CJS event featuring a conversation with author Naomi Seidman on her new book Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish (Stanford University Press, 2024).

Join CJS for a special beit midrash [house of study] program on Tuesday, October 8th at 12:45pm. This program will provide an opportunity for students, faculty and community members to come together and engage in more traditional modes of Jewish learning—slow reading, working through Hebrew sources, and engaging in conversation. The program will be hosted by Naomi Seidman.

Please join us for an online discussion of the new, critically acclaimed documentary film Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher (2022), featuring UC Berkeley Philosophy professor Hannah Ginsborg and GTU Jewish Studies professor Sam Shonkoff. This program is part of the New Lehrhaus's five-part series entitled "The Heretic in the Room." 

Madrasa-Midrasha ​| Preparing for Sacred Seasons

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program as we honor the messages of Passover, Ramadan, and Lent featuring Sam S.B. Shonkoff, Celene Ibrahim, and Arthur Holder. A light lunch will be provided for those who attend in-person.

FESTER: A New Book Conversation with Author Hadar Aviram

Please join us for a special CJS event featuring a conversation with author Hadar Aviram on her new book co-authored with Chad Goerzen FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster (University of California Press, 2024).

Toward a Holy Ecology: A New Book Conversation with Author Rabbi Ellen Bernstein

Please join us for a special CJS event featuring a conversation with author Rabbi Ellen Bernstein on her new book Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis (Monkfish 2024). Rabbi Bernstein will be in discussion with Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

More information and registration links coming soon.

Join CJS Director Deena Aranoff for a discussion of medieval and early modern parenting and its relationship to the development of Jewish culture in Europe and beyond. Aranoff teaches rabbinic literature, medieval patterns of Jewish thought, and the broader question of continuity and change in Jewish history. Dr. Aranoff is this year's David S. Lobel Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies and will teach the Stanford winter course JEWISHST 116/RELIGST 116X The Hebrew Bible: Readings in Religion and Culture.

Join CJS for a weekly beit midrash [house of study] program in Fall 2023. This program will provide an opportunity for students, faculty and community members to come together and engage in more traditional modes of Jewish learning—slow reading, working through Hebrew sources, and engaging in conversation. The program will be hosted by Deena Aranoff and Sam S.B. Shonkoff with additional guest teachers.

Join CJS for a weekly beit midrash [house of study] program in Fall 2023. This program will provide an opportunity for students, faculty and community members to come together and engage in more traditional modes of Jewish learning—slow reading, working through Hebrew sources, and engaging in conversation. The program will be hosted by Deena Aranoff and Sam S.B. Shonkoff with additional guest teachers.