Jewish Studies
Parashat Beshalach's lessons on unity, shared risk, and IDF service
A segment of Israeli society – largely comprising traditional, Religious-Zionist, and secular Jews – carries the overwhelming weight of military service.
Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview
This Hanukkah, my synagogue is illuminating our walls with relics of our Jewish immigrant stories
Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees
In Denver, a Jewish day school happily copes with a surge in new students
Hailey, a senior at DJDS, transferred the school year after Oct. 7 because she was tired of her schoolmates constantly bringing up the situation in Israel and Gaza.
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
“It signals that American progressive Jewish life has evolved to the point where LGBTQ inclusion is a no-brainer.” said Hannah Karpel-Pomerantz
Vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel in Indiana
Indiana University’s Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students.
'Moses Maimonides': A Cornell professor’s look at the Rambam - review
Images in the book include a responsum in Maimonides’s own hand, signed “Moshe” by him. It is one of many such documents discovered in the Cairo 'geniza,' a storage of Hebrew and Aramaic documents.
U of Oregon budget cuts spare Judaic studies faculty who had raised alarm
“The Trump administration’s ‘deals’ turn Jewish studies into the court Jew of old,” a trio of established scholars in the field wrote in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education op-ed.
Jewish Studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts
The efforts come as Oregon prepares to announce sweeping cuts to its humanities programs to curb what it says is a $30 million budget deficit.
Missing in action: Where are the Jewish organizations? - opinion
Once, Jewish students boldly defended Israel in Europe’s streets and campuses. Today, well-funded Jewish organizations are nowhere to be found as anti-Israel forces dominate.
Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas
Kagan’s line of questioning comes as New York recently closed multiple yeshivas that were not abiding by a state law requiring all schools to adequately teach basic secular subjects.
How can we combat rising antisemitism in K-12 schools? Here are the steps - opinion
To address these challenges, our communities must hold all schools accountable to provide Jewish students with a safe learning environment and teach all students tolerance instead of hate.
How can Jewish tradition help navigate differences in today's divided world? - opinion
Holding differing opinions is not new for the Jewish people, and the Mahloket Matters Fellowship brings our textual heritage, social psychology, and issues of immediate relevance to North America.
