The Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitor Series Presents: Simcha Gross Simcha Gross , Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics at University of Pennsylvania and Honorary Starr Fellow at the CJS (Spring 2025), will present: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Simcha Gross (Univ. of Pennsylvania; visitor in Spring 2025 at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies) Lecture: “Good Fences Make…
The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the 2025-2026 Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship Applicants must be active members of the clergy who have demonstrated serious intellectual and academic ability, interest and energy in the pursuit of scholarship in Jewish studies. The Fellowship, which provides a $40,000 fellowship stipend for one semester in…
Shira Hoffer ’25 featured in the Harvard Gazette Shira, winner of the 2024 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies, launched the Hotline for Israel/Palestine in late 2023 to encourage productive dialogue on campus. Read about her work in the Harvard Gazette article….
The CJS is sponsoring and co-sponsoring the following events during the month of March. Please check each individual event page for more detailed information. We look forward to seeing you! March 5, 20254:00 pm “Holy Rebellion” : Religious Feminism in Israel – Achievements and Backlash| Ronit Irshai & Tanya Zion-Waldoks March 10, 20254:00 pm A…
Updated Spring 2025 Events at the Julis-Rabinowitz program on Jewish and Israeli Law, Harvard Law School. Thursday February 20 @ 12:15 pm Hauser Hall 101 “Rabbis, Law, and the Talmud in the Sasanian Empire: A New History” Simcha Gross, Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics, University of Pennsylvania; Starr Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies (Spring 2025),…
Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel, Mazeltov, based on his Harvard thesis (which received a special citation at the CJS’s 2021 Weinstein Prize), is coming out in two weeks from Macmillan/Henry Holt. The Harvard Book Store selected the book for their New Voices in Fiction Club and invited Eli to do an event with Claire Messud (Zuzovsky’s thesis advisor). The event…
Attention Graduate and Undergraduate Harvard students! The CJS is pleased to announce that the application process for the following funding opportunities will open TOMORROW, 2.4.2025: Fund Type Summer 2025 Fellowships for Study and Research in Jewish Studies for Undergraduate Students The 2025 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies for Undergraduate Students Summer 2025…
