Month: August 2022

Congratulations Sandy Cantave Vil!

Sandy Cantave Vil

Please Join us in congratulating Sandy Cantave Vil. Sandy has been approved for a well-deserved and long-overdue job upgrade; she is now our Program Coordinator! Sandy’s duties remain the same, but this new title (and higher job grade) reflect the growth in the complexity of her responsibilities over the years we have been fortunate enough…

Yeshiva University announces a conference marking the 25th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky

Understanding Halakhah, History,and Spirituality Yeshiva UniversityBernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies A conference marking the 25th Yahrzeit ofRabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twerskyand the publication of his collected writings Ke-Ma`ayan ha-Mitgabber:Law and Spirit in Medieval Jewish ThoughtSunday September 11, 2022 / 15 Elul 5782Wilf Campus / Furst Hall / 500 W. 185th Street / Suite…

Jewish Studies Fall 2022 Courses Page is now Live!

Fall views of Autumn foliage and ivy framing a window and a lion statue in the courtyard of The Center for European Studies

Not sure which Jewish Studies course you’d like to take? Contemplating what would be your best choice of language to study? For a complete listing, visit our Fall 2022 Courses webpage: https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/academics/courses/courses-fall-2022/…

The CJS welcomes Visiting Professors Miriam Goldstein and Scott Ury

The CJS extends a warm welcome to our Visiting Professors for the 2022-2023 academic year: Professor Miriam Goldstein, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be teaching JEWISHST 156 – The Cairo Genizot and their Literature Professor Scott Ury, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer of…

Standing together against hatred and violence

The CJS would like to share with you this message from Harvard’s President Lawrence Bacow to last week’s anonymously-sent messages to a group of LGBTQ+ Harvard affiliates. These disturbing messages, received by some Harvard students, faculty and staff, included a litany of homophobic slurs…

Updates to Harvard’s Covid-19 regulations

Mask, hhand sanitizer and wipes

Harvard’s Covid-19 regulations change frequently. For the most up-to-date information about vaccination, masking, testing options and other updates please visit the Keep Harvard Healthy website….

Harvard Judaica at 60

Harvard Judaica Newsletter cover

When Charles Berlin ’58, Ph.D. ’63 was a 26-year-old grad student, he became the bibliographer in Judaica at Harvard’s Widener Library. This September marks Berlin’s 60th anniversary with the Judaica Division, the second largest collection of its kind in the world. Read Harvard Magazine’s feature article, “A Moral Obligation,” about the Judaica Collection and Charles…

The CJS welcomes Benjamin Dunning to its Executive Committee

Benjamin Dunning

The CJS extends a warm welcome to Benjamin Dunning, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School, and a member of the Center’s Executive Committee. He teaches primarily in the areas of Christianity in Antiquity, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies….