CJS | The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies

Please join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies in celebrating the scholarly and communal contributions of our 2022 graduates. Graduates are invited along with their families to this casual celebration that will include a light brunch. Our program will include the opportunity for graduates to present their research and ideas to the group. We look forward to celebrating together!

For centuries, the record of Jewish life has been limited to a small set of written texts. How then did such a small group of people establish, maintain, and evolve its rich and resilient culture? Largely through story telling and especially story telling in the form of ritual.

This talk by adjunct faculty member Maggid Jhos Singer will explore Judaism's storytelling traditions, especially as they offer a counter balance to the fast-paced, digitally-dominated modern life.

We hope you can join us for this CJS webinar!

Please join the GTU's Interreligious Chaplaincy Program and Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies for a conversation on spiritual care in Israel.

Panelists include Michael Schultz, Khitam Keis, and Nabila Awad who will share their experience offering spiritual care and companionship to Jews, Muslims, Christians, and secular communities.

More details to follow.

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Comparative Approaches in Jewish and Islamic Studies

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for a webinar on "Comparative Approaches in Jewish and Islamic Studies" featuring Jerusha Rhodes (Islam, Social Justice and Interreligious Engagement Program (ISJIE) at Union Theological Seminary) and Noa Bar-Gabai (Swig Program for Jewish Studies and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco).

Join author Kaya Oakes (Continuing Lecturer in College Writing, UC Berkeley) for a book talk about her recently published The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life's In-Betweens to Remake the World, followed by a conversation with Professor Ronit Stahl (Professor of History, Interim Administrative Chair of the Religious Diversity Cluster, UC Berkeley). 

Preparing for Sacred Seasons

Please join the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies Program Director Dr. Deena Aranoff and Madrasa-Midrasha Program Director Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala in preparation for Passover and Ramadhan.

Beyond the Binary | A Madrasa-Midrasha Faculty Colloquia Public Forum

Please join us for an exciting public program in which participants in a two-year Madrasa-Midrasha Faculty Colloquia will reflect upon the ways in which their scholarship takes them "beyond the binary:" beyond the binaries of Jew/Muslim, east/west, center/periphery, religious/secular, sacred/mundane. Participants include: Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, Deena Aranoff, Daniel Boyarin, Mahjabeen Dhala, Sam Shonkoff, and Nargis Virani.

This special Madrasa-Midrasha event stems from the work of two MA students at the GTU, Mia Trachtenberg and Sakinah Alhabshi, who were awarded a Haas Student Research Grant in 2021. The event focuses on how Chaplains use art and creativity in their work with guest speakers Taqwa Surapati, Cancer Care Chaplain at Stanford Health Care, and Amy Shoemaker, Director of Operations for the Covid Grief Network and Relief Chaplain at Stanford Health Care.