The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the GTU is a premier center for the advanced study of Jewish theology, history, and culture.
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3 Jun 2025
“Psychedelics and Spirituality in Light of the Religious Leaders Study,” a panel discussion at @GTUBerkeley w/ @michaelpollan, @zackamenetz, @sealefeldman, Bia Labate, and Michael Silver. In collab w/ @SciPsychedelics & @ucbreligion
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
19 Aug 2024
In this episode of The Contemplative Science Podcast, the wonderful philosopher of cognition Mark Miller (@PredictiveLife) and I discuss Jewish spirituality. We talk about "child mind" in Hasidism, dynamics btw psychedelics and tradition, and much more. youtube.com/watch?v=4I4_1Kbc…
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
22 Apr 2024
Had a rich conversation with Jane C. Hu for the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (@SciPsychedelics) about Hasidism. Here is her distillation of the interview. open.substack.com/pub/themic…
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
18 Mar 2024
I'm looking forward to this panel this week on the new book that I did with Elisha Ancselovits and Sergey Dolgopolski, on Friday morning at UC-Berkeley, with all three of the editors and 3 all-star respondents: jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/e…
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
6 Dec 2023
New article: "Child Mind in Hasidic Spirituality." Classical Jewish texts tend to portray young kids as not-yet-adults. There are expressions of excitement for them to grow up and perform actions of Torah study, marriage, and righteous deeds, but one is
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23 Aug 2023
Today’s find in the @GTUBerkeley library: Gil Anidjar’s MA thesis on Kabbalistic hermeneutics.
Committee: Daniel Matt, David Biale, Amos Funkenstein.
#BeforeTheyWereStars
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
3 Aug 2023
The article itself, "Gender in Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales," is now out. Those with access through academic libraries can find it at academic.oup.com/leobaeck/ad…
If you don't have access, DM me and I'll be glad to share.
A brief thread about the piece:
14 Dec 2022
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Essay Prize is Sam Shonkoff for his article “Gender in Martin Buber’s Hasidic Tales”. The article will be published in the 2023 volume of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book.
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21 Jul 2023
CJS alum magic going on over here 👀
21 Jul 2023
So, what is Gashmius? What is the history and meaning of the word? Why was it chosen as the name of Gashmius Magazine, and what does it have to do with our values, our vision, and our goals?
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
21 Jul 2023
The midrashic interpretation of the commandment to “love God בכל לבבך—with all your hearrt”—as an invitation to love with both your “good side” and your “naughty side” is an extraordinary incantation for shadow work
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
5 Jul 2023
How am I only now discovering this!? Charlotte Fonrobert’s MA thesis (GTU, 1989) on “Attitudes towards Women and Sexuality in Early Hasidism.” Committee: David Biale, Daniel Matt, Clare Fischer.
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
30 Jun 2023
Tomorrow I start new role as Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Berkeley. Excited and honored by the opportunity. Feel privileged to work with colleagues, staff, & students at Berkeley, & look forward to helping lead us at an exciting time for CJS. @UCJewishStudies
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
27 Jun 2023
Still marinating on this "Judaism and Psychedelics" panel with @tirzahfire & @margolinmadison at @psychedelicscience. The conference as a whole was...everything. Highs and lows, the revelatory and the dystopian. (Clearly we're giving a shoutout to @zackamenetz in this photo).
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
19 Jun 2023
And if you’re more of a podcast head, there’s an episode of this event on the Harvard Divinity School podcast. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2eV…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
12 Jun 2023
If you missed the Harvard Divinity School's program on psychedelics and Jewish theology with @samshonkoff, Melila Hellner-Eshed, and @jaymichaelson, the video was just released. Check it out!
youtube.com/watch?v=TQPTb5u9…
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12 Jun 2023
If you missed the Harvard Divinity School's program on psychedelics and Jewish theology with @samshonkoff, Melila Hellner-Eshed, and @jaymichaelson, the video was just released. Check it out!
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GTU Center for Jewish Studies retweeted
7 Jun 2023
The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and the Madrasa-Midrasha Program are offering the first modern Hebrew language intensive at the GTU this summer, from July 10th through July 28th! The registration deadline is June 16. To learn more, visit: gtu.edu/news/cjs-announces-h…
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7 Jun 2023
Want to gain access to the depths of Jewish sources? Register now for GTU's Hebrew language intensive, July 10-28! This is designed for folks who already have some basic reading skills and want to develop those capacities. More details at link in bio.
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5 Jun 2023
Nothing to see here, just Naomi Seidman, David Biale, and Sam Shonkoff engaging in German-Jewish cosplay for an event last week about Rosenzweig, Scholem, and Buber.
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17 May 2023
Big mazel tov to our current PhD student Dan Stein for receiving the prestigious Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies! The fellowship will support Dan's research in spring 2024.
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