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Student Excellence Awards

January 19, 2024

NEW: Student Excellence Awards in Jewish Studies Offered for the first time in academic year 2023-24, the Center’s Student Excellence Awards in Jewish Studies will recognize Carolina graduate students, and advanced undergraduates, that are doing exemplary work in a subfield … Read more

Grants: Grad Students

January 18, 2024

Thanks to  generous private support, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is able to offer several different types of fellowships and grants supporting graduate students at UNC. Students working in a subfield of Jewish studies are encouraged to apply!   … Read more

Grants: Recruitment

January 18, 2024

The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to offer fellowships and top up grants for incoming graduate students who have academic and research interests related to the field of Jewish Studies. For graduate students planning to start at Carolina … Read more

Lectures/Performances for Spring 24

January 18, 2024

  We are pleased to present our event schedule for spring 2024. All events are free and open to the public. Please join us this semester:   Jan 22: Jews and the Pig: A History Community Lecture with Jordan D. … Read more

Director’s Message: Spring Semester

January 17, 2024

Dear Friends of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies –   We begin the spring semester at Carolina with a renewed sense of the importance of our mission on campus: to promote a deeper understanding of Jewish history, culture and … Read more

A Night with Alex Edelman

January 10, 2024

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event: Fresh off his hit Broadway show, Just For Us, Alex Edelman will be performing a stand-up selection with a special audience Q&A at the end. Monday, January 29, 2024, 7:30-8:30 PM, UNC … Read more

FDOC Spring 24

January 10, 2024

Happy FDOC to all students and faculty and best wishes for this semester! Students: there are a few seats available for JWST courses – enroll today! See the list of offered courses. We have a full schedule of events for … Read more

New JWST Course for Spring 24

December 6, 2023

The Dept. of Religious Studies has just added the following course for spring 2024: Now enrolling: RELI/JWST 103 Intro To Hebrew Bible   Check out other JWST courses offered in spring 24,  including JWST 274: Representing the Holocaust and JWST … Read more

Nov 13: Lay People’s Voices in Talmudic Jewish Courts

November 10, 2023

Please join us for this year’s Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Lynn Kaye, Brandeis University. November 13, 5:30pm. In-person event. UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Room Directions & Parking in Bell Tower Deck ($1 after … Read more