Deena Aranoff

Trauma: A Conversation with Israeli Author and Psychologist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Please join the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley for a conversation with author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and GTU Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies Director Deena Aranoff about trauma and healing. As a psychologist as well as a writer, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is currently serving as an emergency worker providing mental health support to the victims of the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians.

Join us Friday, May 26 for A Day of Learning on Shavuot for the 35th Annual East Bay Tikkun, hosted by the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (JCCEastBay) and co-sponsored by CJS. CJS Professors Deena Aranoff and Sam S.B. Shonkoff are both teaching during this day-long progam across multiple locations in Berkeley.

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Join us on Sunday, June 5 for A Day of Learning on Shavuot for the 34th Annual East Bay Tikkun, hosted by the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (JCCEastBay) and co-sponsored by CJS. CJS Professors Deena Aranoff and Sam S.B. Shonkoff are both teaching during this day-long progam across multiple locations in Berkeley.

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.

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Join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies for a conversation between author (and CJS alum!) Angela Botelho and CJS Director Deena Aranoff about Botelho's new book German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self.

Dimensions of Time and Space in Rabbinic Literature

Please join CJS for the first installment in our Spring "conversations@cjs" series on critical topics in the field of Jewish Studies. These online events will feature presentations from distinguished scholars along with facilitated dialogue and conversation.

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Please click the image to watch Dr. Aranoff's contribution to The Plagues Project, "Household and Halakha in a Time of Pandemic."

Please join the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies for an intimate conversation with acclaimed Israeli author Etgar Keret and GTU Jewish Studies Professor Deena Aranoff. They will discuss Keret’s most recent writing and film projects, his approach to storytelling and to the world, his penchant for the absurd, and more.

Please join us Tuesday, October 6th for a conversation between Adam Berman and Deena Aranoff as part of a special virual event "Sukkot Here and Now," presented by the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and co-hosted by Urban Adamah.

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Please join us for this online event with special guest Chaplain Bruce Feldstein MD, BCC, founder and director of JFCS Jewish Chaplaincy Services serving Stanford Medicine. Chaplain Dr. Feldstein will be in conversation with Dr. Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, director of the new Interreligious Chaplaincy Program at the GTU, and Dr. Deena Aranoff, director of the Richard S.