Join us for a conversation on Psychoanalysis in Judaism and Islam with Dr. Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) and Dr. Omnia El Shakry (UC Davis), moderated by Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala (GTU).
Please join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies for a book talk with Naomi Seidman celebrating the publication of her new book Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition. This book explores the founding of Bais Yaakov, the Orthodox girls' school system and youth movement that transformed Orthodox life in interwar Poland and that continues to thrive today.
In conjunction with Berkeley Rep's presentation of Tony Kushner's groundbreaking play Angels in America, the GTU is cohosting "Angelology: A Live Panel on Millenarianism" on Monday, May 14 at 6:30pm in Berkeley Rep’s Peet’s Theatre. The panel will explore the questions “Why do angels appear to people? What forecasts the end of the world?” through Jewish and Mormon lenses.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Center for Jewish Studies, Professor Naomi Seidman looks back at the key people and events that shaped the Center during its first half-century.
Join the GTU for the First Annual Borsch-Rast Lecture, where Daniel Boyarin and Judith Butler will join Borsch-Rast Book Prize winner Naomi Seidman, to share perspectives on Seidman's award-winning book, The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature.
The event will be held in the chapel at Pacific School of Religion, with a reception to follow in the Bade Museum at PSR.
Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the GTU’s Center for Jewish Studies, has been awarded the inaugural Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2016 book, The Marriage Plot.
Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (CJS) will deliver the 2017 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: "When Jesus Spoke Yiddish: Translating the New Testament for Jews."
