Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice information
Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice
Motto
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is not upon you to finish the work, but neither are you exempt from participating in it." Rabbi Tarfon
Established
August 1977; relaunched August 2008
Director
Aaron Hahn Tapper
Location
San Francisco
,
California
,
United States
Website
usfca.edu/artsci/jssj
The Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice is a Jewish studies program at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. Originally founded in 1977, and re-established in 2008, it is the only program in the world to formally link the fields of Social justice and Jewish studies. It offers a minor in Jewish Studies and Social Justice (JSSJ), an annual Social Justice Lecture, an annual Human Rights Lecture, an annual Social Justice Passover Seder, intermittent films, presentations, and workshops, a study-abroad course, and Ulpan San Francisco.
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