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CJS Fall Welcome Lunch

Queer Healing: AIDS, Gay Synagogues, Lesbian Feminists, and the Origins of the Jewish Healing Movement

Please join us for our annual Fall Welcome Lunch & Lecture with Dr. Gregg Drinkwater, Program Director for the Antisemitism Education Initiative which is a project of UC Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies.

Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?

Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?

Throughout millennia, Jews have explored individual and communal consciousness through a variety of techniques and traditions. More recently, Jews have played an outsized role in the “psychedelic renaissance” as researchers, practitioners, and advocates, including prominent leaders. A surge of interest in these substances creates an opportunity to reflect on non-ordinary experiences in Jewish life and theology more broadly.

Positionality and Jewish Biblical Scholarship

Positionality and Jewish Biblical Scholarship

Biblical Studies is a highly fragmented field, with some scholars insisting on the significance of positionality, “the notion that personal values, views, and location in time and space influence how one understands the world,” while others claim that objective, historical-critical perspectives offer the only proper lens through which the Bible should be studied. How might the history of Jewish biblical scholarship over the last two centuries shed light on this dispute?

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