Jewish seniors share L.A. memories
In a floral-print jacket and bright-red lipstick, Dorothy Scott smiled as she thumbed through a plastic binder of photographs, letters and newspaper clippings. Among her modeling and acting headshots is […]
With music, fine food, events celebrate Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews
The phrase “Kan ya ma kan” is usually translated as “Once upon a time” in Arabic literature, and is the phrase that begins many stories. The founders of Clockshop, a […]
Israel asks: Where do we go from here?
UCLA International Institute, November 12, 2015 – On July 14, 2015, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) […]
Michael Casper Granted Prestigious Fellowship at The Center for Jewish History in New York City
PRESS RELEASE Michael Casper awarded the Lillian Goldman Fellowship for the 2015 – 2016 academic year NEW YORK – July 14, 2015 – Michael Casper, a doctoral candidate in History at […]
In Memoriam: Dr. Janet Hadda
Moving to UCLA in 1973 to start its Yiddish Program, she later became the first tenured professor of Yiddish in the US, publishing academic and popular articles, in English, Yiddish, […]
An open letter to President Obama: This is a moral emergency
Dear President Barack Obama, I appreciate your comments on the “heartache and the sadness and the anger” that many Americans are feeling after the shooting of nine African-American congregants at […]
Class with Holocaust Survivors Inspires UCLA Student Film Project
Who knew that a freshman seminar could be life changing? When Andrew Rosenstein enrolled in Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature Professor Todd Presner’s seminar,Between Memory & History: Interviewing Holocaust Survivors […]
Renowned UCLA Historian awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History
David N. Myers, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair in the UCLA College’s Department of History, has been awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, […]
