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Celebrating 25 Years of the Greenfield Summer Institute

Posted on June 17, 2025

How a Cocktail Party Led to a Lifelong Learning Program After the founding of the Center for Jewish Studies in 1991, dozens of UW alumni, their spouses, and family members asked how they could help …

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Remembering Frances Lipton Weinstein (1923 – 2025)

Posted on March 24, 2025

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 …

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Prof. Nadav Shelef Interviewed on WPR about Ongoing Israel-Gaza Conflict

Posted on October 12, 2023

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 …

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New Courses Offered for Fall Semester

Posted on September 15, 2020

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, …

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Upcoming Tobias Lectures with Moshe Halbertal

Posted on September 15, 2020

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 …

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Statement of Solidarity in Support of George Floyd

Posted on June 12, 2020

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.  …

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From Aspiring Virologist to Religious Studies Professor: Introducing CJS Faculty Affiliate Cara Rock-Singer

Posted on June 9, 2020

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. …

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Chad Gibbs finds Wisconsin Connection in Holocaust Research

Posted on May 28, 2020

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 …

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Adapting to Change: Resilience and resourcefulness in the time of COVID-19

Posted on May 18, 2020

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 …

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Two new courses offered for Fall 2020

Posted on May 4, 2020

 

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