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Collage of images used for link to our Open House event on September 29, 2026

UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Open House Celebration (2026-2027)

Share a bite with the Leve Center faculty, staff, students, and community friends. Learn about our diverse projects, programs, and courses. Join us September 29, 2026 in 306 Royce Hall at 4PM.

Todd Presner (right) with members of his AI and Cultural Heritage Lab, postdoctoral researcher Ulysses Pascal, technical lead Aileen Tang, and graduate student researchers Anna Bonazzi and Sophia Toubian.

Team led by Todd Presner receives $308,000 grant to study how AI is shaping Holocaust history

Presner’s lab has received a $308,000 grant to support the project, “Prompting the Past: Generative AI and Holocaust History.” The project grew out of a collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Images of a 2,000-year-old copper alloy ring that was excavated in the 1960s but remained in storage until less than a decade ago.

What’s in an ‘O’? New UCLA research may unlock mystery of ring tied to Pontius Pilate

Drawing clues from the ring’s inscription, Catherine Bonesho rebuts previous scholarship about the 2,000-year-old relic.