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Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies

UC Berkeley (Photo/file)
Posted inNews

Pro-Palestinian group protests $10m Diller gift to Berkeley Law

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 14, 2021April 15, 2021

A group of law students is demanding that Berkeley Law reject a recent $10 million gift from the Helen Diller Foundation to a university institute focused on Israel and Jewish […]

UC Berkeley (Photo/file)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Jewish program at UC Berkeley gets $10m from Diller Foundation

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 9, 2021February 16, 2021
Andrew Hoffman as a child with his father, Abbie Hoffman, stepmother Anita Kushner and younger sister Amy (out of frame). (Photo/Courtesy Hoffman)
Posted inCulture

Abbie Hoffman’s Bay Area son, activists recall real ‘Chicago 7’ trial

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel October 30, 2020November 11, 2020
UC Berkeley students and faculty record an episode of the “Israel and Jewish Identity in the Age of Covid” podcast.
(Photo/Maya Shemtov)
Posted inBay Area

New podcast looks at Israel and Jewish identity in ‘Age of Covid’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 25, 2020June 26, 2020
Dec. 2018 reopening of the remodeled UC Berkeley Hillel building. (Photo/file)
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Despite Israel tension, a strong support system for Jews at UC Berkeley

Karen Stiller by Karen Stiller February 19, 2020February 19, 2020
Political science professor Ron Hassner will be UC Berkeley's first endowed chair in Israel Studies.
Posted inNews

A $5 million gift will create UC Berkeley’s first endowed Israel studies chair

by Dan Pine May 2, 2019May 17, 2019
Rachel Adler speaking at the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, Feb. 21, 2019 (Photo/Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area

Feminist icon Rachel Adler on #MeToo and Jewish law

by Dan Pine February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
campus clock tower
Posted inPhilanthropy

Substantial new grant for Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies

by J. Staff February 8, 2019
Hebrew University professor Galia Golan poses a question at the Association for Israel Studies meeting at UC Berkeley on June 25. (Photo/Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

Israel Studies confab comes to UC Berkeley

by Sue Fishkoff June 26, 2018July 10, 2018
campus clock tower
Posted inBay Area, News

UC Berkeley to host Association for Israel Studies conference for first time

by J. Staff June 20, 2018June 21, 2018

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