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Graduate Theological Union

Professor Sam Shonkoff will be the first holder of the Taube Family Chair at the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Taube Philanthropies endows new Jewish studies chair at Graduate Theological Union

by J. Staff February 12, 2021February 16, 2021

Thanks to a $750,000 endowment gift from Taube Philanthropies, Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union will establish a new chair position at its Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies. Sam Shonkoff, […]

a bald man with a short bear leans on a bookcase
Posted inLetters

Call Jew-hatred what it is; GTU controversy, for and against; stolen Yemini material at S.F. State; etc.

by J. Readers August 21, 2020
Lehmann in bright red academic regalia at a podium
Posted inBay Area, Education, News

Was this rabbi too pro-Israel to head GTU?

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 6, 2020August 14, 2020
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann was inaugurated last month as the first non-Christian president of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. (Courtesy GTU)
Posted inUncategorized

GTU’s new Jewish president on spiritual care in a time of division

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann by Rabbi Daniel Lehmann November 11, 2019November 12, 2019
Graduate Theological Union
Posted inEducation

Graduate Theological Union offers fellowship for working Jewish communal professionals

by J. Staff August 13, 2019
Ellie Shapiro receiving her doctorate in Jewish studies and interdisciplinary studies from Graduate Theological Union.
Posted inSeniors

At 66, her Ph.D. on Jewish music in Poland is dream come true

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller June 27, 2018June 27, 2018
In August, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann will take up the position of president of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Posted inUncategorized

Rabbi makes history as first non-Christian head of Graduate Theological Union

by Rob Gloster June 21, 2018June 21, 2018
In August, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann will take up the position of president of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Posted inNews

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann named Graduate Theological Union president

by J. Staff May 24, 2018May 24, 2018
From the "Religion and Resistance" exhibit at Graduate Theological Union
Posted inCulture

How does faith inform resistance? GTU exhibit explores the question

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 1, 2018April 30, 2018

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