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Interreligious Learning in Civic Spaces

November 14, 2018

Bill Zangeneh-Lester and other GTU students and alumni are working to expand religious understanding among the diverse populations at a local community college. 

From the Fall 2018 Issue of Skylight

Hanukah Reception with Ola Bilińska

Please join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and Taube Philanthropies, in partnership with the Israeli and Polish Embassies of Washington DC, in welcoming Ola Bilińska to the Bay Area. Ola is an acclaimed performer of Yiddish and Polish music in contemporary compositions. We invite you to join the GTU-CJS in welcoming Ms. Bilińska and her three piece ensemble, Libelid, to the GTU on Thursday December 6, at 6pm for a Hanukah party, with candle-lighting, latkes, music and song.

Teaching for the New Millennium with Miriam Heller Stern

Teaching for the New Millennium

Dr. Miriam Heller Stern

What does this moment in history demand of us as Jewish educators and how might we sharpen our skills to rise to the occasion? This seminar will explore a variety of tools, theories and stances that we can use in building cultures of learning that will not only respond to, but lift up the communities in which we teach and the surrounding culture.

Teaching for the New Millennium with Miriam Heller Stern

Teaching for the New Millennium

Dr. Miriam Heller Stern

What does this moment in history demand of us as Jewish educators and how might we sharpen our skills to rise to the occasion? This seminar will explore a variety of tools, theories and stances that we can use in building cultures of learning that will not only respond to, but lift up the communities in which we teach and the surrounding culture.

Pardes Educator Workshop with Alex Israel

The Tale of Ahab and Navot - Corruption, Murder and Self Delusion (I Kings ch.21) 

The murder of Navot is a formative story of corruption and power and its dangers. Using literary techniques we will unpeel the layers of this story, exposing it as a classic tale of the psychological sublimation of sin.

CJS Alum Launches Yom Kippur Campaign Opposing Sexual Violence

September 17, 2018

CJS alumna Merissa Nathan Gerson (MA, ’13) is the driving force behind a campaign that encourages Jewish communities to oppose sexual violence and declare that “Consent is a Jewish value.” As part of the “Ken Means Yes” campaign, Jewish communites are encouraged to incorporate a brief reading of

The UC-Berkeley Taubman Lectures by Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies
and the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life present

The 2019 Taubman Lectures

The Navel of the Dream: Freud's Jewish Languages

A Different Diaspora: Translation, Dispersion, and the Rewriting of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Languages

Dr. Naomi Seidman

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