The Center for Jewish Studies would like to wish all of you a happy, healthy new year! The CJS office will be closed on the following days: L’Shanah Tova שנה טובה…
Happy Jewish New Year!
2025-2026 Azrieli International Fellowships: Call for Applications
Azrieli International Fellowships: Call for Applications Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship (2026–27) The online application is now open, and closes on November 19, 2025. This fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines to advance their work at Israeli academic institutions. Fellows receive a 14,000 ILS monthly stipend for a period of up to three years. Azrieli International Visiting PhD…
Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with Alan Dershowitz
Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with Alan DershowitzTuesday, September 16 at 6PM, JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School Join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative (MEI) and the Institute of Politics for a conversation between MEI Faculty Chair Professor Tarek Masoud and Alan Dershowitz, lawyer, Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus, and author of The Case for Israel. This event…
Graduate Student Workshops
The Jewish Studies Workshop and The Hebrew Bible Workshop meet regularly and serve as a forum in which Harvard students from all schools can present their works-in-progress and exchange ideas with a community of students in the field. Details can be found on the NELC website. Details can be found on the NELC website….
RESCHDULED: Shaul Magid at the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School
The following talk has been rescheduled: Tuesday September 9, 12:15pm Hauser Hall 105 RESCHEDULED! Monday December 1, 12:15pm Wasserstein 2036 Shaul Magid Harvard University “Violence, War, and Nationalism in Three Traditional Modern Jewish Thinkers:Aaron Shmuel Tamares, Yoel Teitelbaum, and Abraham Isaac Kook”…
Fall 2025 Events at the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School
Fall 2025 Events at the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School Tuesday September 9, 12:15pm Hauser Hall 105 Shaul Magid Harvard University “Violence, War, and Nationalism in Three Traditional Modern Jewish Thinkers:Aaron Shmuel Tamares, Yoel Teitelbaum, and Abraham Isaac Kook” Tuesday September 16, 4-8pm Pound Hall 101 Co-hosted by: James LoefflerJohns Hopkins University…
From Spain to Ferrara: The Ferrara Bible and the Art of Translation | Adam Mahler
From Spain to Ferrara: The Ferrara Bible and the Art of Translation | Adam Mahler Lehrhaus EventsSeptember 3, 2025, 8:00-9:00 pm Tickets required Adam Mahler (Ph.D. candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures/Ladino) In medieval Spain, Jewish intellectuals played a central role in the translation, interpretation, and circulation of Biblical texts, providing their (often Christian) patrons with…
Shaul Magid appointed Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at Harvard Divinity School
Congratulations to Shaul Magid on his appointment as Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at Harvard Divinity School, a new five-year, renewable position. Professor Magid received rabbinical ordination in 1984, earned a master’s degree in Jewish thought from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis…
“The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” | A Symposium
“The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” a symposium sponsored by theJulis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School *September 16, 2025* 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of Louis Brandeis’s famous essay, “The Jewish Problem – How to Solve It.” Taking as his point of departure the persistence of…
Upcoming Events at the CJS
Mark your Calendar | Upcoming Events The CJS will host some exciting events in the fall of 2025. We look forward to sharing more details with you as they become available…