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The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies mourns the loss and celebrates the life of Frances Lipton Weinstein, distinguished benefactor of the Center and lifetime member of the CJS Board of Visitors. She passed away on March …

On Wednesday, October 11 Nadav Shelef, the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science, was interviewed on WPR about the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza. You can listen to …

This fall students can take five new courses through Jewish Studies: Jewish Humor, Israeli Culture in Music and Film, Muslims and Jews, Sexual Violence in the Bible, and Anne Frank. In Sunny Yudkoff’s Jewish Humor, …

On October 7 and 8 please join us via Zoom for two talks by Moshe Halbertal of New York University. Presented through our Tobias Lecture Series, established by Marjorie and Harry Tobias, each talk will …

The faculty of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies wish to express our anguish and anger over the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other African American victims of racial aggression.  …

At the beginning of the Spring 2020 semester, Assistant Professor Cara Rock-Singer was teaching a course on Religion, Science, and Medicine when she started seeing reports about an outbreak of a new virus in China. …

In Search of Survivors: A 12,000-Mile Research Trip from Madison to Jerusalem and Back By Chad S.A. Gibbs As a graduate student conducting Holocaust research in Jerusalem last fall, I hardly expected that my findings …

When UW–Madison students returned from winter break on January 21, they poured into lecture halls and dining halls, queued up at their favorite State Street cafes, and resumed their campus routines. The first hint of …