Center for Jewish Studies

The ASUC Senate approved a bill to condemn antisemitism, with nine of 20 of the senators absent in protest of it Wednesday.

Jewish students at UC Berkeley continue to feel targeted and look to student government for support in light of rising antisemitic rhetoric on a national level. 

UC Berkeley announced the creation of the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies on May 2 in response to a $5 million grant from the Helen Diller Family Foundation.

The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies has been awarded a matching grant of $1 million from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, a Los Angeles based foundation that previously gave the Institute initial “seed money” in 2011.

Chana Bloch, a poet, professor, translator, and scholar closely affiliated with UC Berkeley, died on May 19 after a four year battle with cancer.

UC Berkeley’s new Center for Jewish Studies will open in Dwinelle Hall at the end of October, bringing together faculty and students from a range of academic fields to examine Jewish beliefs and culture with an interdisciplinary perspective.