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Human Rights and Antisemitism in the Current Climate

unc genome center

Hosted by NC Hillel and Co-sponsored by the Center. Directions and Parking for the UNC Genome Science Building can be found here . For additional information and to register, visit NC Hillel.  

Jewish Annotated New Testament

The Center is co-sponsoring this event at Duke University, featuring our Assistant Director, Yaakov Ariel. In this panel discussion about the publication of the second edition of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, editors Marc Brettler, Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor … Read more

Marking the Jews

UNC Petigrew Hall

Lunch seminar for UNC faculty and grad students:   Monday, October 16 from 12:00- 1:00pm Flora Cassen, JMA and Sonja van der Horst Scholar in Jewish History and Culture, and associate professor, Department of  History, will be discussing her recently published … Read more

Between Utopia and Reality: Stefan Zweig’s Europe

Dey Hall

Academic Lecture/Film Discussion with Gregor Thuswaldner, North Park University Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) is known for his humanistic and pacifistic attitude which is recognizable in all his writings. Zweig’s notion of humanism is deeply connected with his idea of a transnational … Read more

Israeli Lit in Films: Apples from the Desert

For UNC students and faculty: Film Screening & Pizza Wednesday, November 8, 7pm, New West 219 “Apples from the Desert,” Directed by Matti Harari & Arik Lubetzky Fiction, 2014, 1h 36min Based on a short story by Savyon Liebrecht and … Read more

Gertrude Weil’s Fight for Suffrage: A Southern Lady and New Jewish Woman

UNC Friday Center

Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South   Gertrude Weil (1879-1971), leader of the state’s women’s suffrage campaign, embodied North Carolina’s liberal and traditional paradoxes. Rooted in the small-town South, she fought not just … Read more

Israeli Lit in Films: The Seven Tapes

For UNC students and faculty: Film Screening, Class Presentations & Dinner End of the Semester Event Wednesday, November 15, 7pm, New West 219 “The Seven Tapes,” Directed by Yair Qedar Documentary, 2015, 56mins. The Seven Tapes is a cinematic journey … Read more

RESCHEDULED: Ancient Judaism in the First-Person

RESCHEDULED: Dec 12, from 12-1pm.   Lunch seminar for UNC faculty and grad students:   Ancient Judaism in the First-Person:  Using Digital Tools to Imagine and Embody the Past   Brad Erickson, a graduate student in the department of Religious Studies, … Read more

Reschedule: Lunch Seminar: Jonathan Hess

Our lunch seminar with Jonathan Hess is rescheduled for January 25, 12:30pm start time.     Lunch seminars are for Carolina graduate students and faculty members. Book launch for Jonathan Hess. Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and … Read more

Holocaust Remembrance Day Event: Kaja Finkler

Dey Hall

Lives Lived and Lost in Memory of Golda and Haim Finkler. Our annual event in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be January 29, 2018 at 5:30pm with guest Kaja Finkler, professor of Anthropology emerita. Join Professor Kaja Finkler as … Read more