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Undergraduate students interested in the cultural, historical, and societal development of Judaism are encouraged to consider the Jewish Studies minor.

The Jewish Studies program is fortunate to have instructors from eight different departments throughout the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB: the Department of Classics, the Department of English, the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the Department of History, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Religious Studies.

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New Online Jewish Studies Summer Course: Jewish Existentialism (PHIL 183)

UC San Diego's Department of Philosophy is offering a new online summer course open to students from all UC campuses.

Talking Torah Despite Deep Differences: The Greatest Glue Between Us is an Ancient Book - Abigail Porgrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer

Hillel and Shammai did it. So did Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua, Rashi and the Tosafists, and other rabbinic rivals stretching back centuries and reaching into the present.

Haredi Women in the Arts in the Digital Age: Contradictions and Paradoxes of a 21st-Century Phenomenon – Jessica Roda (UC Los Angeles)

Have you had a glimpse of the mesmerizing music videos of ultra-Orthodox women celebrities, Bracha Jaffe and Devorah Schwartz, captivating over half a million viewers on YouTube, or the myriad of films and Yiddish plays crafted by Hasidic girls in Montreal and New York?