Recent News

We are excited to share the news that two of our alums have won for the following categories in the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards:

For Sephardic Culture, Sarah Abrevaya Stein won the Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy for her…

Latkes? An age-old Jewish tradition? Think again.

While pancakes have been around for some 12,000 years — millennia before the Maccabees put their stamp on an ancient winter celebration — potato pancakes are a relatively recent phenomenon…

Amos Gitai is one of Israeli cinema's most internationally feted directors, with 45 films to his credit, spanning 35 years. Gitai visited Stanford October 19-21, 2016 for the screening of his acclaimed thriller Rabin, the Last Day.

Jewish Studies & Comparative Literature graduate student Shoshana Olidort attended the 2016  National Association of Professors of Hebrew International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture was held at…

Grand Prize Winner:
The Guest by Beatrice Garrard

Second Place Winner:
New Photographs by Adam Schorin …