Events - madrasa_midrasha

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program as we honor the messages of Passover, Ramadan, and Lent featuring Sam S.B. Shonkoff, Celene Ibrahim, and Arthur Holder.

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for an online event featuring the work of current GTU students researching topics in Islamic Studies and Jewish Studies.

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for a poetry reading featuring Naomi Seidman and Nargis Ali-Virani.

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for an online event on mystical reading in Islamic and Jewish traditions, featuring Fateme Montazeri (UC Berkeley) and Sam S.B. Shonkoff (GTU).

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for an online event featuring the work of current GTU students researching topics in Islamic Studies and Jewish Studies.

Please join us for the final event of the Madrasa-Midrasha Faculty Colloquia Series during the Spring 2022 semester, which will be free and open to the public.

Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for a webinar on "Comparative Approaches in Jewish and Islamic Studies" featuring Jerusha Rhodes (Islam, Social Justice and Interreligious Engagement Program (ISJIE) at Union Theological Seminary) and Noa Bar-Gabai (Swig Program for Jewish Studies and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco).

Please join the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies Program Driector Dr. Deena Aranoff and Madrasa-Midrasha Program Director Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala in preparation for Passover and Ramadhan.

Join us for this special Madrasa-Midrasha Program event co-sponsired with the Center for the Arts & Religion. The event will feature presentations by Liat Berdugo (University of San Francisco) and Pantea Karimi (Santa Clara University), moderated by Carol Bier (Center for Islamis Studies, GTU).

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Sam Shonkoff and Dr. Kamal Abu-Shamsieh as we reflect on the sacred seasons of Passover and Ramadhan. Their talks will explore the notion of Spirituality as it is incorporated in and developed through religious commemorations and practices.

The Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Bayan Islamic Graduate School present "Muslim Women's Scholarship in Islamic Tradition and Western Academia" as part of a webinar series on Contemporary Issues in American Islam.

Please join us for a special event on Mysticism in Islam and Judaism with Dr. Todd Lawson and Dr. Daniel Matt. Reception to follow.

Join us at Stanford Medical School for a Madrasa-Midrasha event exploring Jewish and Islamic perspectives on spiritual care in a hospital setting.

Reflections on the recent horrific shootings at the Christchurch mosques with Professor Vicki Spencer, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Join the Center for Islamic Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies for a plenary on theism and atheism in the modern age with Scott Shay, author of In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism

Please join the Center for Islamic Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies' Madrasa-Midrasha Program as we reflect on the various aspects of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic holy days. Featured speakers are Mahjabeen Dhala, Rabbi Stephen Pearce, and Marianne Farina CSC.