UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies

Please join the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies in celebrating the return of students for the beginning of a new academic year with featured guest Dr. Gregg Drinkwater, Program Director for the Antisemitism Education Initiative which is a project of UC Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies.

Join us for this Taube Philanthropies program at The Magnes on "Hideouts: The Architecture of Survival in the Holocaust" co-sponsored by CJS.

​Join us for our annual CJS conference, which we are excited to hold once again in 2023. This year's theme is "Worlds of Corporeality" and will feature distinguished scholars and presenters.

Please join us for a talk by Mark Oppenheimer about his new book Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood. This is a co-sponsored program with the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley.

Please join us for this special online conversation between Erik K. Ward and Michael Rothberg, moderated by Tina Sacks. This event is part of a series on Jews and Race during the 2020-2021 academic year, a collaboration between the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, the Department of...

Please join us for this online event with special guest Marva Shalev Marom. This event is part of a series on Jews and Race during the 2020-2021 academic year, a collaboration of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.

Please join us for this online event with special guest Paul Nahme. This event is part of a series on Jews and Race during the 2020-2021 academic year, a collaboration of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.

Please join us for Ruth Tsoffar (author, University of Michigan) in a conversation about her book Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture with Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley) and Naomi Seidman (Univeristy of Toronto). The event is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies.

Please join us for this online event with special guest Yavilah McCoy. This event is part of a series on Jews and Race during the 2020-2021 academic year, a collaboration of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.

**CANCELED**
After much deliberation, due to the ongoing developments of the novel coronavirus we have decided to cancel and postpone our “Storytelling and the Making of Jewish Culture” conference.