One of the largest and most diverse programs of its kind, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS) is dedicated to intellectual openness and engagement with critical questions of history, literature, ...

After dire warnings, the university says no tenured faculty will lose their jobs. A round of layoffs at the University of Oregon that Judaic studies professors had feared would affect their program ...

Rabbi Sholomo Ben Levy, professor of history at Northampton Community College, presented “Black Jews in America: Diversity and Identity” at the University of Scranton’s Weinberg Judaic Studies ...

The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies encompasses the study of Judaism as well as the neighboring cultures of Christianity and Islam with which it has interacted in Ancient, Medieval and ...

Rabbi Shlomo Brody, Ph.D., executive director of Ematai and columnist for the Jerusalem Post, presented “Jewish Ethical Perspectives on Civilian Casualties in War: A Tale of Two Sieges” at the ...

The Judaic Studies major was introduced to Yale less than a decade ago as an interdisciplinary study of the histories, cultures and philosophies of Judaism and the Jewish diaspora. Last fall, the ...

Professor Yoshiko Reed began her lecture by inviting us to ponder an important question: At what point did Christianity as an identity become distinct from Judaism? At first glance, the question seems ...

Lauren Twigg entered San Diego State University as an undergraduate four years ago with a game plan: She would study business and become a chief executive officer of a powerful company. But what she ...

At 24,000 square feet, the Belz Museum displays more than 1,400 objects across five permanent galleries. Three of these house Asian art, much of which dates back to the Qing Dynasty of China (1644 to ...

Cleveland Jewish News: Judith Neulander, co-director of the Judaic Studies Program, gives advice to students considering Jewish studies. “I’ll never forget a graduating senior who took a Judaic ...

It made sense. Rabbi Efraim Warshaw’s bedtime reading before moving from California to Virginia was James A. Michener’s “Chesapeake,” which highlights the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland’s Eastern Shore and ...

Combining Judaic scripture with needlework was not what New Bedford resident Alice Nussbaum had in mind 35 years ago when her then 5-year-old daughter brought home a class project. "All my life I was ...