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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…

“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…

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…

Please join us in welcoming our Fall 2025 academic visitors. Visiting Faculty Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College Joseph Engel Visiting Professor (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations/Harvard Divinity School), academic year 2025-2026 Justin Cammy, Professor of Jewish Studies and of Comparative Literature, Smith College Visiting Professor of Near Eastern…

This year, the Center for Jewish Studies awarded three students with the Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies. The Prize is by faculty member nomination only, for an outstanding senior thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in Jewish and Hebrew studies by a Harvard student. Best dissertations in the field of Jewish and Hebrew Studies…

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to share the abstracts for the winning essays of the 2025 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies: Sage Segal Lattman, ’25 “Descent and Dissent: Interfaith Marriage and Reform Judaism’s 1983 Resolution of Patrilineal Descent” Abstract:This essay explains how, starting in the 1970s, the…

The CJS congratulates Rachel Rockenmacher, our Executive Director, for being recognized a 2025 Harvard Hero! In June, we were joined by Rachel’s family, friends, neighbors and colleagues to celebrate the special moment. The Harvard Heroes program  honors high-performing staff for the impact they have on the Harvard community based on criteria set by a University-wide…

On September 27, 2024, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard invited colleagues, friends, and family to honor Shaye J. D. Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, at his retirement. On July 1, 2025, Professor Cohen’s retirement has taken effect. Below is a tribute from his…