The Center for Jewish Studies is an outreach and research agent that serves as a bridge between the academic Program and the community. Its four-fold mission is:
1. To
engage the general community
in the enterprise of Jewish education and culture by organizing attractive
educational and spirited cultural programs on campus, such as lectures,
symposia, conferences, film festivals, artistic performances and the
like, which are open to the public;
2. To foster academic Jewish learning
in the community, by having Jewish Studies faculty from Queens
College and elsewhere share their expertise in community educational
and cultural frameworks;
3. To publish
and disseminate widely substantive lectures and conference proceedings
of significance to scholars and laymen alike;
4. To support, promote, and sustain
the pedagogic and scholarly activities of the Jewish Studies Program,
its faculty and students.
We would like to thank Forum Gallery
and Mark Podwal for making available
his beautiful art that graces our cover