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Jewish studies

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Posted inOpinion

My Jewish studies students aren’t talking about Israel or antisemitism. They told me why.

by Ilana M. Horwitz October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

(JTA) — I first noticed something was off on the first day of class. I had given my students in my “Sociology of American Jewish life” course at Tulane University […]

The University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
Posted inEducation

Jewish studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts

by Andrew Lapin September 3, 2025September 4, 2025
Masked protesters disrupt a University of Michigan lecture by SFSU professor Marc Dollinger (not pictured) on Nov. 19 about the alliance between Black and Jewish communities during the Civil Rights Movement. (X/@anjewla90)
Posted inBay Area

SFSU Jewish studies prof shouted down as ‘Zionist’ at U. of Michigan lecture

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 2, 2024December 3, 2024
Yehuda Kurtzer (left), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, speaks alongside Ken Bamberger, a Cal law professor and faculty co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, at UC Berkeley on April 4. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley undergrads can add an Israel studies minor starting this fall

by Ryan Torok June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
Placard states AJS and Association for Jewish Studies
Posted inAnalysis

What is antisemitism? Jewish scholars at S.F. conference wrangle with past, present

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 22, 2023December 26, 2023
Julia Watts Belser, a professor at Georgetown University, is the author of "Loving Our Own Bones."
Posted inOpinion

A soul-crushing Talmudic tale about disability tells a bigger story

Julia Watts Belser by Julia Watts Belser August 22, 2023August 22, 2023
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
Professor Rachel Gross of San Francisco State University's new book is "Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice." (Photo/Gary Sexton)
Posted inReligion

In ‘Beyond the Synagogue,’ Jews find religion in delis and museums

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 28, 2021March 12, 2021
San Francisco State University professor Marc Dollinger (left) and Jews of Color Initiative founder Ilana Kaufman at discuss Dollinger's book at Temple Sinai in Oakland, Oct. 2018. (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inBooks

SF State historian splits with publisher over how to talk about Jews and white supremacy

by Ari Feldman and Forward December 21, 2020December 21, 2020
Jordan Rosenblum is a professor of Jewish studies and art history at the University of Wisconsin. (Photo/Courtesy Rosenblum)
Posted inReligion

Lecture on booze as a gateway chug into rabbinic thinking

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

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