Recent News

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  • Congratulations to our 2018 Outstanding senior: Jordan Einhorn
    9/5/25
    A ceremony on May 3, 2018 honored twenty-eight College of Arts and Sciences seniors for their noteworthy contributions to the College and their individual department or program. Congratulations, Jordan!
  • 2018 Graduation Celebration
    9/5/25
    UB’s Department of Jewish Thought hosted its first graduation celebration for its graduates on Tuesday April 24, 2018 at 7 pm in the Samuel J. Friedman Library in Clemens Hall.
  • Vibrant discussions following “’Jews Won’t Replace Us’: Charlottesville Protest as a Challenge to Jewish Thought”!
    9/5/25
    With a packed room of community members and UB undergraduate and graduate students, Professor Noam Pines embarked on his discussion of “’Jews Won’t Replace Us’: Charlottesville Protest as a Challenge to Jewish Thought” 
  • Gill Hoffman, chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post visits UB
    9/5/25
    On April 16, 2018 in the Department of Jewish Thought’s Friedman Library at UB, Mr. Gil Hoffman, a well-established Israeli media expert, shared his experiences as a journalist conversant with key figures in Israeli and Palestinian political leadership. He highlighted the importance of knowing the Israeli politics from “within” and on these grounds argued that the notion of “foreign correspondent” in Israel is outdated. Rather, at the age of global communication, journalism must be local and done by those with intimate knowledge of the constantly fluent and changing "now" of the political life, he argued.
  • David Blitzer Lecture series a success
    9/5/25
    Along with the large community and student turn out, the department was particularly pleased to welcome Ms. Helena Schwartz, Ms. Cheryl Stein and Mr. Irving Stein of the Blitzer family.

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