MONDAY: Please join us for a community lecture with Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran: A New Synthesis. October 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Hill Hall. Free and open to the public.

Lunch Seminars at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Each semester, the Center hosts informal lunch seminars to discuss academic topics related to the field of Jewish Studies. The lunch seminars are for Carolina’s faculty and graduate students, and interested undergraduates. … Read more

  Our fall 2018 newsletter is available online, featuring a tribute to Jonathan Hess, plus news on our upcoming events, a grad student in Paris, the campaign update, and news briefs. If you’d like to join our mailing list to … Read more

Join curators, art historians, folklorists, anthropologists, religious scholars, philosophers, cultural critics, private collectors, and community leaders for an international symposium probing the changing meanings of Jewish ritual objects and material culture today through their display and interpretation in museums, and … Read more

Apply now: Undergraduate Internships 2018-2019 Updated: the application deadline is now extended to September 21st, due to campus closures. The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is accepting applications for two paid, undergraduate student interns for the 2018-2019 academic year. We … Read more

It’s almost time to start the fall semester and some of our classes have availability, including Folk 481 and JWST 697, the Capstone Course. Both are open to undergrads and grad students.  Learn more about all the fall semester courses. … Read more

Recent discoveries by a team of specialists and students at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee, led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness, shed new light on the life and culture of an ancient Jewish village. The … Read more

As part of cultural activities for the HEBR 204 class [Intermediate Modern Hebrew II with Hanna Sprintzik], the students worked on an Israeli song which they recorded in memory of Professor Jonathan Hess.    

The Spring 2018 newsletter is now online: JSNewsletterSpring2018_web Featuring news on our 15th anniversary events, a grad student with a passion for teaching, a campaign update, and news briefs.  

JWST 697: Jewish Studies Capstone Course has changed the meeting time to Friday, 11:15am-2:15pm. That said, if there are additional schedule conflicts, we will try to resolve them so everyone can take the course.