Please join the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies for a lunchtime hybrid event on the "Futures of Jewish Theology," featuring Joy Ladin (Yeshiva University), Mara Benjamin (Mount Holyoke College), and Ariel Mayse (Stanford University), moderated by Sam S.B. Shonkoff (GTU).
Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program for an online event on mystical reading in Islamic and Jewish traditions, featuring Fateme Montazeri (UC Berkeley) and Sam S.B. Shonkoff (GTU).
Join CJS Professors Deena Aranoff and Sam Shonkoff--along with other community leaders and teachers--for the 34th Annual East Bay Tikkun hosted by the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay.
Join us for this special Madrasa-Midrasha Program event, which will feature presentations by Dr. Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University) and Dr. Mark Massoud (UC Santa Cruz).
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Sam Shonkoff and Dr. Kamal Abu-Shamsieh as we reflect on the sacred seasons of Passover and Ramadhan. Their talks will explore the notion of Spirituality as it is incorporated in and developed through religious commemorations and practices.
Join us for the Inaugural Lecture for the Taube Family Chair in Jewish Studies given by Taube Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Sam Shonkoff. The event will feature introductory words by GTU leadership and Shana Penn, Executive Director of Taube Philanthropies, as well as a response by Dr. Judith Plaskow, professor emerita of religious studies at Manhattan College.
Please join CJS for the final installment in our Spring "conversations@cjs" series on critical topics in the field of Jewish Studies. This special event will feature Michael Fishbane (University of Chicago) in conversation with Sam Shonkoff (GTU).
Please join CJS for another installment in our Spring "conversations@cjs" series on critical topics in the field of Jewish Studies. This event will feature distinguished panelists Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley), Jill Hammer (Academy for Jewish Religion), and Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) in conversation facilitated by Sam Shonkoff (GTU).
