The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) at the Graduate Theological Union is a premier center for the advanced study of Jewish history, culture, theology, and religious life. CJS graduate programs combine rigorous text-study with distinctive interdisciplinary approaches. Our students gain essential training for academic careers, community leadership, as well as pastoral and educational roles in the Jewish world and beyond. Among the Center’s areas of academic focus are rabbinic literature and culture, Jewish mysticism and philosophy, modern Jewish thought, and Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Islamic relations from late antiquity through the present age.
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"Contesting Eternal Enmity: How Decolonial Theory Can Help to Re-Evaluate Jewish-Muslim Relations" with Santiago Slabodsky
Please join us for a special CJS event featuring a conversation with Santiago Slabodsky on contesting the narrative of "eternal Jewish-Muslim enmity" and its relation to coloniality.
Featured Event
Life and Death | 2024 CJS Annual Conference
Please join CJS for a day of papers and conversation on the very weighty and painful matters of life, death, war and conflict, in the context of Jewish history and the history of Jewish thought.
Featured Event
FESTER: A New Book Conversation with Author Hadar Aviram
Please join us for a special CJS event featuring a conversation with author Hadar Aviram on her new book FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster (University of California Press, 2024). The event is co-sponsored by The Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
Featured News
CJS Announces Hebrew Language Course Intensive in Summer 2024
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