11/09/2019 - The University of Illinois held its annual diversity breakfast on Friday, November 8th, at the iHotel. Sean Garrick--the inaugural Vice-Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion--gave the...
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10/23/2019 - "On October 16th, our class, Jewish American Literatures in Dialogue with U.S. Minority Literatures, enjoyed a rich and detailed tour of the Krannert Art Museum’s exhibit, Art Since 1948. Amy Powell...
10/14/2019 - A warm welcome to Omri Drumlevich, who is our Israel Studies Project visitor for the Fall semester. Omri was born in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. He danced with Mehola Jerusalem and studied at the Jerusalem...
09/09/2019 - Etgar Lefkovits was Jerusalem correspondent at the Jerusalem Post, and also worked at the Jerusalem bureau of the New York Times. He was subsequently in Washington D.C. as Israel...
09/08/2019 - The 2019-2020 annual newsletter is now complete! The newsletter can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on...
09/02/2019 - Students, faculty, visitors, and community members gathered at the Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life on Sunday for our 2nd annual "Welcome Bagels" event. It was a wonderful...
08/17/2019 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society is pleased to announce that Johnna Jones has been awarded the Fall 2019 Ronald H. Filler Jewish Studies scholarship. Johnna is a junior in the College of...
08/05/2019 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society is delighted to welcome Liat Maggid Alon as an Israel Institute Visiting scholar for the 2019-2020 academic year. Maggid Alon (Ph.D., Ben Gurion University...
08/01/2019 - 2019 Winners Diana Sacilowski The title of Diana's research project is: Strategies of Silence: Representations of Jewish Poles in Polish Literature since the 1980s Diana writes: In this...
05/15/2019 - 2018-2019 Filler Award Winners Yoav Margalit Yoav Margalit looks to both...
12/04/2018 - Following Pope John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in 1998, Fidel Castro Ruz convened a symposium to examine religious life in Cuba. Representatives from different religious communities were invited to...
10/29/2018 - On Friday night, several members of the UIUC faculty and staff joined students and community members for a Shabbat dinner. It is a tradition that began a few years ago, and it allows us to connect...
10/26/2018 - The series that has become “Mad Creative” is the first in what I hope will become an HGMS annual tradition. It generated through a perhaps atypical origin story. I saw on Facebook a posting from one...
10/26/2018 - We are now halfway through our 21st Century Jewish Writing and the World series. We have been treated to some amazing events with two very thoughtful writers who care deeply about the world we...
10/04/2018 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Program in Jewish Culture and Society has organized a lecture series, “...
