Just when you thought the Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women’s Status at Bar-Ilan University wasn’t going to be attacked any more, the following from Arutz Sheva. MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich (Kadima) has published letters she sent earlier this week to Welfare Minister Moshe Kachlon and Bar Ilan President Moshe Kaveh, asking them to rethink [...]
The Judaic Studies department at Brown University will be hosting a workshop on Ancient Religion and Modern Technology that will take place on February 13-14. The schedule and information can be found here.
It seems as if the conference on Torat ha-Melekh that is suppose to take place at Hebrew University this evening has been cancelled [update: maybe not]. A friend was kind enough to send me the following message from the Department of Jewish Thought, a co-sponsor of the event. מועצת החוג למחשבת ישראל התכנסה היום, יום [...]
A number of months ago a conference on the book Torat ha-Melekh that was scheduled to take place at Haifa University was cancelled. There is a similar conference scheduled to take place next week, Dec. 12, at Hebrew Univesity. Some people are trying to lobby the university to make sure that it doesn’t become a [...]
The Jewish Law Association 17th International Conference July 30-August 2, 2012 Yale University Call for Papers: Location and schedule: The Jewish Law Association in conjunction with Yale University Program in Judaic Studies will hold the 17th International conference of the JLA at the Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., on July 30-August 2, [...]
There’s a must-read obituary in today’s New York Times. Rosalyn S. Yalow won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1977. She was the product of a Bronx public school who had to overcome adversity throughout much of her career. Dr. Yalow, a product of New York City schools and the daughter of parents who never [...]
As a child of two CCNY graduates and someone who is concerned about higher education, I always loved Irving Howe’s description of his days at CCNY that was pointed out to me by my father. The following is from Edward Alexander’s Irving Howe — Socialist, Critic, Jew, pp. 5-6. I am reminded of these comments [...]
(From the Legal Scholarship Blog.) Jewish Law Syllabus Project: Here is an announcement from Samuel J. Levine (Touro). On behalf of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center, I am pleased to announce the initiation of the Jewish Law Syllabus Project.With the continuing emergence of Jewish Law as an area of focus in both [...]
Jewish Ideas Daily published an article by Alex Joffe, Jewish Studies in Decline? I think that the state of Jewish Studies is affected by a number of factors, some of them being: 1. The decline of the humanities versus the sciences and applied professions in some quarters; 2. The nature of the research itself; 3. [...]
1. One-year Master’s program in Jewish Studies for International Students. The program offers a series of comprehensive encounters with the classical texts of Jewish cultures from biblical to modern times. Its intellectual home at the integrative department of Hebrew Culture Studies, enables us to cover a wide range of periods, methodologies, and scholarly interests, while [...]
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