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Following health guidelines mandating the extension of the "shelter in place" order in Alameda County, the GTU campus will continue to conduct most operations remote through May 31st. Learn more and access the latest, most up-to-date COVID-19 resources, policies, and news for faculty, students, and staff of the GTU here>>

Deena Aranoff

In the Time of COVID and the Great Sheltering

Monday, May 4th 2020, 5:30pm

Please join us for this special online conversation between the GTU's Kamal Abu-Shamsieh and Deena Aranoff, and special guest Chaplain Dr. Bruce Feldstein of Stanford University.

Online Event

April 03, 2020

Call the Passover a Delight

As the Passover holiday approaches, Dr. Deena Aranoff asks, ”How can we create sacred time in an age of pandemic?"

Revealing Texts: How Faith Communities Interpret Abortion

Wednesday, March 22nd 2017, 7:00pm

In “Revealing Texts: How Faith Communities Interpret Abortion” we'll hear Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scholars sharing their faith communities' texts. Ameena Jandali will share Islamic texts, Jim McGarry will share Catholic texts, and Deena Aranoff will share Hebrew and Rabbinic literature. We will learn how their traditions interpret these writings to create a world view on abortion. Join us for a Lehrhaus dialogue: No debate, all dialogue;...

October 28, 2013

What’s that you see? Interfaith panel explores art and spirituality

The Graduate Theological Union, in conjunction with the Center for Arts, Religion and Education, sponsored Modern Divine: An Interfaith Panel on Art and Spirituality on October 27 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The panel, consisting of Deena Aranoff, CJS, Devin Zuber, PSR, Munir Jiwa, CIS, and Riess Potterveld, GTU (moderator), shared insights and reflections on works of art in the CJM exhibit Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art. (http://beyondbelief.thecjm.org/) This collaborative...

Modern Divine panel discussion at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Sunday, October 27th 2013, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street (btwn. 3rd and 4th Streets), San Francisco, CA 94103

Moderator: Riess Potterveld, President of Graduate Theological Union

Panelists:

Deena Aranoff, Assistant Professor for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union

Munir Jiwa, Director and Associate Professor, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union

Devin Zuber, Assistant Professor for American Studies, Literature, and Swedenborgian...

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