Events

Yale’s Program in Jewish Studies and the Yale Jewish Alumni Association host conference on resilience in Jewish tradition

November 11, 2025

Over 120 Yale alumni, students, and faculty members gathered together for a day of learning, reflection, and community building.

Upcoming Events

Cynthia Miller-Idriss | Hate in the Homeland: The New Far Right and the Rise of Antisemitism

January 15, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

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Yale Hebrew Bible Seminar hosts Jill Hicks-Keeton

January 20, 2026 5:30 pm—7:00 pm

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Jewish Studies Seminar with Jacob Abolafia: "Judean and Democratic? Philosophical-Political Comments on a Word in Josephus"

January 22, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

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Pamela S. Nadell | Antisemitism, an American Tradition

January 28, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

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Film | AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence

January 29, 2026 7:00 pm—9:00 pm

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Lunch Seminar with Karen Stern: "Enthralling Devotion: Multi-Sensory Worship Inside the Dura Europos Synagogue"

February 9, 2026 11:30 am—1:00 pm

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Magda Teter | On Jewish Suffering, Empathy, and the Need to Rethink Antisemitism

February 11, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

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Yossi Kugler | Anti-Israelism, Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Israel’s Evolving View

February 18, 2026 4:00 pm—5:00 pm

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Jewish Studies Workshop with Shira Eliassian: "A Tale of Two Hauntings: The Babylonian Talmud's Reimagination of Postmortem Sentience in y.Berakhot 4d"

February 19, 2026 12:00 pm—1:15 pm

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Claire E. Aubin | Imagining Evil: Immigrant Holocaust Perpetrators in American Media

February 25, 2026 4:00 pm—5:00 pm

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Yale Hebrew Bible Seminar hosts Francis Borchardt

March 3, 2026 5:30 pm—7:00 pm

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Jewish Studies Workshop with Claire Aubin: "'We see this as the Holocaust of our nation': Holocaust Narrative Appropriation and Instrumentalization in Right-Wing Social Activism"

March 26, 2026 12:00 pm—1:15 pm

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Yale Hebrew Bible Seminar hosts Joseph Lam

March 30, 2026 5:30 pm—7:00 pm

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Jewish Studies Seminar with Yael Segalovitz

April 16, 2026 4:00 pm—5:30 pm

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CONFERENCE: “Mobility, Migration, and Belonging in the Early Modern Global Atlantic”

Wed Apr 22, 2026 12:00 am—Fri Apr 24, 2026 11:59 pm

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Jewish Studies Workshop with Arash Azizi: "Iranian Jewish Communists and the Iranian-Israeli Relationship"

April 23, 2026 12:00 pm—1:15 pm

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CONFERENCE: "Rabbinic Narrative in the Jewish-Christian Encounter: New Approaches"

Sun May 3, 2026 5:00 pm—Mon May 4, 2026 5:00 pm

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Past Events

Yale Youth Poll | Polling on the Prevalence of Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Views in the Electorate

December 17, 2025 4:00 pm—5:00 pm
Lunch Seminar: Ahuva Liberles, "It Takes a Village: Constructing Jewish Heritage in Medieval Germany"

December 11, 2025 12:00 pm—1:15 pm
Susan Suleiman | On Becoming a Survivor in My Eighties

December 10, 2025 4:00 pm—5:00 pm
Jewish Studies Graduate Colloquium presents Michael Lessman: "Contextualizing Jewish Philosophy in 12-Century Baghdad"

December 4, 2025 4:00 pm—5:15 pm
Jewish Studies Workshop: "Jews in the Red Army during World War II"

December 4, 2025 12:00 pm—1:15 pm
Yale Hebrew Bible Seminar Hosts Dorothea Erbele-Küster: "The Olfactory Love Song: Material and Embodied Philological Pathways"

November 19, 2025 5:30 pm—7:00 pm
Zoom Webinar with Arash Azizi: "Iranian Jews and Patriotic Opposition to Antisemitism (1950-1990)"

November 19, 2025 4:00 pm—5:00 pm
Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946

November 18, 2025 12:30 pm—1:45 pm
Jewish Studies Seminar with Eliav Grossman: "Imitation of the Mishnah and Expansion of Rabbinic Culture in the Early Islamic Period"

November 17, 2025 4:00 pm—5:30 pm
Jewish Studies Graduate Colloquium presents Jacob Morrow-Spitzer: "What Makes a Worthy Jewish Citizen?"

November 13, 2025 12:00 pm—1:15 pm

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