Mazel tov and congratulations to all students who graduated with a minor, major, graduate certificate or a dissertation in Jewish studies! The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies hopes that you could celebrate your graduation despite the difficult times, … Read more

Dead Sea Scrolls in Recent Scholarship: The Center’s Jodi Magness, Religious Studies, is presenting at this online conference on May 17-20, 2020. She is on the schedule for May 18th. This conference is free and open to the public. Pre-registration … Read more

The Center hosted its 11th, and last, lunch seminar of the academic year today… this time conducted on Zoom and made available to a worldwide audience. More than 20 participants joined guest speaker David Lambert, dept. of Religious Studies, to … Read more

Congratulations to Max Lazar, graduate student in the department of history, on two recent awards. First, Max was awarded the Center’s Goodman Dissertation Fellowship for next academic year. This fellowship supports a Carolina graduate student working in Jewish Studies and … Read more

The Center is please to co-sponsor this remote event. UNC World View will be featuring its recently released podcast A Hidden Child of the Holocaust, with Holocaust survivor Shelly Weiner as the focus of an online Twitter chat on Wednesday, … Read more

Grant award notifications just went out to 12 Carolina graduate students working in a field of Jewish studies. Congratulations to everyone that received funding for summer 2020 remote work. With these grants, the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies supports graduate … Read more

  What is Scripture: Redescribing the Bible in Ancient Judaism Guest speaker: David Lambert, Dept. of Religious Studies. UPDATE: We are now holding this lunch seminar via Zoom on April 30, 1:00pm. Pre-registration is required in order to receive the … Read more

RELI / JWST 211: Classical Hebrew I Joseph Lam, BN/WB, MWF 10:10am This course offers an introduction to the history and culture of ancient Israel in the time of the Hebrew Bible (approx. 1000-200 BCE) through exploring the language of … Read more

Offered Fall 2020: RELI 542H: Religion and the Counterculture Instructor: Yaakov Ariel During the Vietnam War era, a young people’s movement offered alternatives to the codes, styles, and ideals in American culture and society. This course aims at exploring the … Read more

Next fall’s Capstone Course: Theme and Methodologies in Jewish Studies is Women, Gender, and Judaism with Professor Andrea Cooper. NEW MEETING DAY: Thursdays 3:35-6:25pm, location TBA. General Ed: CI This course offers intensive grounding in key approaches to Jewish studies … Read more