Past Events

Professor Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania)

Dr. Weissberg is a Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences and recently received a Fellowship, Center for…

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania invites you to lecture by Alessandro Guetta, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris

Professor Guetta is the 2017 Schoenberg…

Ethnomusicologist Nicola Scaldaferri (University of Milan) will present his documentary "Sacred Mountains: Abrahamic Religions and Musical Practices in the…

The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Civil Law

Penn Law welcomes Christine Hayes, the Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, as the…

Mark R. Cohen is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Emeritus, and Professor of Near Eastern Studies,…

SYMPOSIUM

Jews and the Natural World: Bodies, Animals, Evolution 

This day-long symposium will explore the interconnected discourses with which Judaism both invents…

You are invited to a free tour of the NMAJH, followed by a discussion.

RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/h44M0Gwwjf7EOwE62

Will include a tour of the museum and…

Join us for the screening and discussion with Editor and Producer Inbal Lessner of

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Invitation to a screening of Rosenwald: The Remarkable Story of a Jewish Partnership with African American Communities

Followed by a Q&A with the…

Josephine Cohen Memorial Lecture

No God but Spinoza’s: Spiritual and Philosophical Influences on Einstein’s Thought