websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/03/18… Azrieli International Fellowships: Call for Applications The online application for Fall 2025 cohort is open now and closes April 22, 2025. The 2026–27 Azrieli International Postdoc Fellowship Applications will open on 9.1.2025, and close on 11.19.2025

The CJS congratulates Julia Tellides ’24 for the publication of her thesis in the the Harvard Judaica Collection Student Research Papers Series. Julia’s paper is available digitally and in print upon request. For further details see mailchi.mp/fas/srp-20

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/04/21… Congratulations to Prof. Annette Yoshiko Reed for winning the 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship!

The CJS congratulates Prof. Hannah Marcus on receiving the Dan David Prize! websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/06/11…

The CJS congratulates Rachel Rockenmacher, our Executive Director, for being recognized a 2025 Harvard Hero! websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/07/01…

Professor Shaye Cohen has retired. Read a tribute from his colleague, Jay Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies. cjs.fas.harvard.edu/2025/07/01/dr-…

cjs.fas.harvard.edu/2025/08/08/the… “The Jewish Problem, Then and Now: Rethinking Louis Brandeis’s Liberalism” a symposium sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School *September 16, 2025*

cjs.fas.harvard.edu/2025/08/07/upc… Upcoming Events 9.16.25 Michelle Goldberg in Conversation with Derek Penslar 10.20.25 Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, “The Healing Power of Stories” 11.4.25 Steven J. Zipperstein, “Philip Roth: Stung by Life” 11.12.25 Etgar Keret, “Words without Borders”

Please join us in welcoming our Fall 2025 academic visitors. Visiting Faculty, Harry Starr Fellows, and other academic visitors can be found on our website: websites.harvard.edu/cjs/people/aca…

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 SELMA AND LEWIS WEINSTEIN PRIZE IN JEWISH STUDIES! Read the abstracts on our website. websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/08/06…

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/08/06… Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 HARRY AND CECILE STARR PRIZES IN JEWISH STUDIES! Read the abstracts on our website.

Fall events at the CJS: 10.16, 4:00 pm Michelle Goldberg 10.20, 5:30 pm Ayelet Gundar-Goshen 11.4, 4:15 pm Steven J. Zipperstein 11.12, 6:00 pm Etgar Keret websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/10/07…

Unabridged 2026 – A Library Research Intensive for graduate students post-docs, fellows, and faculty is now accepting applications. Find out more: websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/10/09…

Congratulations to Professor Paul Kosmin for winning the American Historical Association 2025 Prize in History Prior to CE 1000 for his book The Ancient Shore (Harvard University Press, 2024). websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/10/15…

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/academics/… To Harvard Students: Jewish Studies Spring 26 Courses Page is Live! Not sure which Jewish studies course to take? Can’t find what’s available? Looking for a language class? Our Courses page lists all of Harvard’s Jewish studies course offerings.

Dr. Ani Avetisyan | “Between Script and Community: Judaeo-Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection (Republic of Armenia)” November 11, 2025 5:30-7:00 pm HMANE (formerly the Semitic Museum) room 201, 6 Divinity Ave. websites.harvard.edu/cjs/calendar_e…

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/10/29… The CJS @ Harvard invites applications for the 2026-2027 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica The fellowships for 26-27 will be available to scholars working on topics related to Jewish Philosophy. Application Deadline: Thursday, January 15, 2026

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/10/29… The CJS @ Harvard 2026-2027 Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship application process now open Applicants must be active members of the clergy who have demonstrated intellectual and academic ability, interest and energy in pursuit of Jewish studies scholarship

websites.harvard.edu/cjs/2025/10/29… On October 16 the CJS hosted New York Times Opinion Columnist Michelle Goldberg for a conversation with our Director, Professor Derek Penslar. Read The Harvard Gazette’s coverage of the event.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… Congratulations to Noah Feldman, named Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor! Feldman is F. Frankfurter Professor of Law; chair, Society of Fellows; director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, and member of CJS Executive Committee.