The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies (CJS)

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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Beit Midrash - Apr. 9

Join CJS for a weekly beit midrash [house of study] program during Spring 2024 in the GTU Library hosted by Deena Aranoff.

Collaborative Tables 1&2, GTU Library
12:45pm

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.

Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley
1:00pm to 8:00pm

Beit Midrash - Apr. 16

Join CJS for a weekly beit midrash [house of study] program during Spring 2024 in the GTU Library hosted by Deena Aranoff and Sam S.B. Shonkoff.

Collaborative Tables 1&2, GTU Library
12:45pm