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CJS at 50 Marking Fifty Years of Innovative Scholarship with the Center for Jewish Studies Skylight News and Notes from the GTU Spring 2018 CJS at 50 Marking Fifty Years of Innovative Scholarship with the Center for Jewish Studies ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Celebrating President Alumna of the Year Can Pedagogy and Religion Riess Potterveld Virginia Burrus Address Climate Change? Page 12 Page 14 Page 16 Spring 2018 1 News and Notes from the GTU • Spring 2018 President: Riess Potterveld Dean & Vice President for Academic Affairs: Uriah Y. Kim Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs: Kathleen Kook Skylight Chief Operating Officer: Jeff Pace Chief Financial Officer: Ellen Peterson COVER: CJS@50 Library Director: Clay-Edward Dixon 4 Looking Ahead to New Community, New Skylight Editor: Doug Davidson Partnerships, and New Understandings of Designer: Ellen Moore Osborne What Jewish Means We welcome your feedback. by Deena Aranoff Please send comments, suggestions, alum updates, or address changes to [email protected]. 6 Remembering Our Beginnings and Becomings by Naomi Seidman Graduate Theological Union 2400 Ridge Road 9 A Place to Discover Your Voice Berkeley, CA 94709 by Glennis Lamm 510-649-2400 www.gtu.edu FEATURES Member Schools 8 Taube Gift Expands Conference and Learning American Baptist Seminary of the West Church Divinity School of the Pacific Possibilities Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara 11 Naomi Seidman Wins Inaugural Borsch-Rast University Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Book Prize Lutheran University 12 For Such a Time as This Pacific School of Religion San Francisco Theological Seminary by Arthur Holder Starr King School for the Ministry 14 Ancient Texts, Fresh Insights GTU Centers and Affiliates Asia Project by Doug Davidson Black Church/Africana Religious Studies Center for the Arts & Religion 16 Teaching and Religion: Keys to an Equitable Center for Islamic Studies and Ecological Future *Center for Swedenborgian Studies Francisco J. Ayala Center for Theology and by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda the Natural Sciences *Institute of Buddhist Studies 22 GTU Celebrates Women’s Voices Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies *New College Berkeley DEPARTMENTS *Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies 3 From the President *School of Applied Theology Sikh Studies Initiative 20 Art @ the GTU Women’s Studies in Religion 23 Alumni News and Notes *GTU Affiliates Skylight is printed on recycled and recyclable On the Cover: Photos of people and events from the GTU’s Center for Jewish paper using soy ink. Studies over the past fifty years. Background image of Ancient Stone Menorah by asafta. 2 Skylight From the President few weeks ago, Stephen thinking about religion to bear on the A Swartzman, CEO and Chairman challenges society must resolve. of the Blackstone Group (the largest This articulation represents im- alternative investment firm in the portant aspects of the GTU’s graduate world, valued at $43.9B), suggested education that have long been present that corporations need to focus more yet continue to emerge. We see them deeply on the social value they are cre- today, for example, in the student ating. His argument was that maximiz- research cohorts program, in the ing profit and increasing shareholder growing interest in public theology, value can no longer be the sole goals by and in the pursuit of relationships which value and success are measured between faith and public life. The in business enterprises. same emphasis was certainly incorpo- The sentiment struck me as some- rated into the multi-day conference what parallel to the significant changes on sustainability sponsored by the taking place in the academic environ- Center for Dharma Studies last spring ment in the United States. Today, even as well as the current “Religion and a “liberal arts” education is expected Resistance” exhibition at the Doug to demonstrate deep connections to Adams Gallery. the practical realm and real-life issues You’ll find additional evidence facing our world. As someone who of this commitment throughout closely monitors higher education, I have been astound- this issue. It includes an article adapted from Cynthia ed by the number of college and university magazines Moe-Lobeda’s “excellence in teaching” lecture on peda- that focus on students and faculty working on solutions gogy and the role of religion in an era of climate change. to perplexing problems. You’ll also find several pieces celebrating the 50th anni- Today, education is expected to demonstrate iden- versary of our Center for Jewish Studies, which for the tifiable impact—and that seems even more essential for past decade has partnered with our Center for Islamic a school like the GTU. For our work to have enduring Studies for Madrasa-Midrasha programs that explore value, our study of the world’s religious traditions here issues that often generate tension, misunderstanding, must make a positive contribution to justice and the or conflict. These educational events create safe and healing of our planet. respectful communities where people learn about and In the past year, we’ve developed a new tagline to appreciate difference and context. help articulate the essence of the GTU. It articulates what It has been an uplifting experience to serve as GTU we seek to do in three brief foundational statements: president for the past five years and to help develop the Grow in knowledge. This is, of course, one tradi- human and financial resources to support the aspira- tional and enduring purpose of education—critical and tions and dreams of our faculty and students. It is now creative intellectual inquiry. time to pass leadership of this vital interreligious edu- Thrive in spirit. This identifies the GTU as a cational community to another. I do so with gratitude school that not only embraces religious and spiritual and with my prayerful hope that the GTU will continue issues, but invites personal engagement with both tradi- to contribute creative solutions to the challenges of tion and practice. tomorrow. Unite in solutions. This emphasize the GTU community as one that comes together to bring critical Spring 2018 3 CJS @ 50 The Center for Jewish Studies at 50: Looking Ahead to New Community, New Partnerships, and New Understandings of What Jewish Means by Deena Aranoff omething magical happens at the GTU’s Richard and advocating for social change. This is nowhere more evi- SS. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies: a kind of intellectual dent than among the first cohort of students who have come alchemy in which classical Jewish sources meet contempo- to CJS through our Jewish Community Fellowship. This new rary perspectives, producing new articulations of ancient fellowship provides Jewish educators and community pro- themes. The intellectual buzz at CJS reverberates beyond fessionals with tuition for a single course in Jewish studies, the walls of the GTU, reaching Jewish and non-Jewish com- enabling them to invigorate their teaching and community munities across the Bay Area and beyond. Through in-depth service with the wisdom of Jewish scholarship. The capstone cultural, historical, textual, linguistic, and literary explora- of this annual program is a workshop taught by a master Jew- tions, CJS transforms those who participate in its degree and ish educator, which will be taught this year by Miriam Heller public programs into a new kind of Jewish community. Stern, National Director of the School of Education of Hebrew At the heart of the CJS community are its students. For Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. We students in our Master of Arts program (as well as doctor- are excited to convene an amazing group of local educators to al students with concentrations in fields related to Jewish explore the theme of creativity and Jewish education. studies), the transformation includes two years of course work devoted to the study of Jewish languages, cultures, JS has a profound impact on the Bay Area community and literatures. As the culmination of their studies, CJS MA Cthrough the steady stream of people who attend our graduates produce a thesis that examines a particular aspect talks and who raise awareness of our programs and resourc- of Jewish civilization. Some highlights of recent work by CJS es. In recent years we have hosted a series of fascinating and students include a look at the earth-based character of early fantastic public programs, such as Fiddler at Fifty, Ortho- Judaism, an archeological study of a first-century synagogue, doxy and Heterodoxy in Jewish History, Curating Culture, and examinations of Holocaust education in contemporary Making Memory: On the POLIN Museum of the History Germany and the use of poetry in hospice care, to name just of Polish Jews, Captives of the Dawn: Remembering Soviet a few. The breadth of student interests and the quality of Yiddish Culture, Jewish Women’s History Reconsidered, and their work is a hallmark of the Center for Jewish Studies, and Hasidism Re-appraised. Our lecturers and adjuncts have signifies the capacity of academic study to transform individ- included internationally known scholars from all corners of uals as well as the communities to which they belong. the Jewish and academic worlds, including Avivah Zornberg, Throughout its fifty years, the Center for Jewish Studies Charlotte Fonrobert, Daniel Matt, Stephen Pearce, Dina has combined a commitment to academic excellence with a Stein, John Efron, Erich Gruen, Shana Penn, Robert Alter, commitment to empowering Jewish communal leadership Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Anna Shternshis, Sven- Erik 4 Skylight CJS @ 50 CJS @ 50 “Jewish studies at the GTU transcends the boundaries of religion and culture, building new models of interreligious and intercultural conversation.” Rose, Gabriella Safran, Ofer Dines, Shmary Brownstein, Francesco Spagnolo, Bernie Steinberg, and many others. CJS is a premier platform for Jewish ideas, scholarship, and culture in the Bay Area. Jewish studies at the GTU transcends the boundaries of religion and culture, building new models of interreligious Another very exciting current trend at CJS is our in- and intercultural conversation.
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