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Founded in 1895, Gratz College is the oldest independent and pluralistic college for Jewish studies in North America. Today, Gratz enrolls a diverse population of students from around the world in fully online graduate programs that reflect its historic focus on education and Jewish studies.
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Founded in 1895, Gratz College is the oldest independent and pluralistic college for Jewish studies in North America. Today, Gratz enrolls a diverse population of students from around the world in fully online graduate programs that reflect its historic focus on education and Jewish studies.
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Gratz College is internationally recognized as a leader in developing effective educators, well prepared institutional leaders and dedicated scholars. Gratz offers students an array of online graduate, undergraduate, certificate and continuing education programs.
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We prepare our students with the instruction, resources, and support to face today's challenges and do their part to repair the world in new and powerful ways.

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JST 521 - American Jews: Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future

Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D.

JST 535/735 - The Book of Samuel

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 601 - New Directions in the American Jewish Community

Shirah W. Hecht, Ph.D.

JST 605/704 - SP26B - Colloquium A: Angels in the Rabbinic Tradition

Jewish Studies Faculty

ASM 506/706 - Antisemitism Education in K-12 Learning Environments

Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath

EDU 282/582 - Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Dina Maiben, Ed.D.

EDU 584 - Techniques & Activities for Teaching Hebrew Reading and Writing

Dina Maiben, Ed.D.

HEB 201/501 - Hebrew I: Beginners

Dorit Amos

HEB 202/502 - Hebrew II: Advanced Beginners

Dorit Amos

HEB 203/503 - Hebrew III: Intermediate

Dorit Amos

HEB 204/504 - Hebrew IV: Advanced

Dorit Amos

HEB 210/510 - Biblical Hebrew I

Esti BenDavid

HEB 212/512 - Biblical Hebrew II

Laurie Fisher, Ed.D.

HEB 523 - Poetry in Song: The Poetry of Modern Israel

Maya Greenshpan

HEB 805 - SU26A - Academic Hebrew

Danielle Shenhar

HGS 503/703 - Women in the Holocaust

Jennifer Marlow, PhD

HGS 510 - The Holocaust and European Mass Murder

Barbara Krasner Ph.D., M.B.A., M.A., M.F.A.

HGS 511/711 - History of Antisemitism

William Plevan, Ph.D.

HGS 522/742 - Children of the Nazi Era

Jennifer Marlow, Ph.D.

HGS 525/727 - Post-Holocaust Theologies

Ruth Sandberg, Ph.D.

HGS 526/746 - Nazi Germany and Corporate Collaboration

Patty Chappine, Ph.D.

HGS 528/728 - The Role of Muslims and the Holocaust

The Center Faculty

HGS 533/753 - Before Hitler: East European Jewish Civilization

The Center Faculty

HGS 536/736 - The Holocaust and Jewish Law: Balancing Survival and Jewish Observance

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

HGS 561/761 - Holocaust Denial and Abuse

Patty Chappine, Ph.D.

HGS 566/726 - The Psychology and Sociology of Altruism and Rescue

Nancy Isserman, MSW, Ph.D.

HGS 605/805 - SP26A Through the Eyes of Children and Families

Joanna Michlic, Ph.D.

HGS 612/712 - Art in Extremis: Creative Resistance During the Holocaust

The Center Faculty

HGS 624/724 - Holocaust, Genocide, and International Law

Kristen Nelson, M.A., J.D.

HGS 625/725 - A Geographical Approach to the Study of the Holocaust

Carson Phillips, Ph.D.

HGS 700 - Unveiling the Underpinnings of Genocide

Jeff Benvenuto, Ph.D.

HRI 600/700 - Antisemitism & Racism in America Today

Ayal Feinberg, Ph.D.

IFL 505 - Exploring Interfaith Leadership and Service

Elizabethtown College

IFL 565 - Nonviolence in America

Elizabethtown College

IFL 620 - Successful Interfaith Dialogue

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

IFL 621 - Interfaith Lifecycle and Holidays (formerly REL 621)

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

IFL 622 - Interfaith Social Justice and Social Action

Ruth Sandberg, Ph.D.

IFL 623 - Interfaith Liturgy (formerly REL 623)

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

JED 206/506 - Methods of Teaching Jewish History

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JED 507 - Methods of Teaching Bible

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JED 508 - Teaching Torah to Young Children

Jewish Studies Faculty

JED 607 - Methodologies for Teaching Israel

Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath

JST 204/504 - The Jewish Family: Institution in Transition

JST Faculty

JST 238/508/708 - Modern Eastern European Jewish History

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 440/540 - Survey of Medieval Jewish History

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 504 - The Jewish Family: Institution in Transition

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 505 - Perspectives on American Judaism

Rabbi Lance Sussman Ph.D.

JST 507 - Introduction to Classical Judaism

Joe Davis

JST 509/706- SP26A - American Jews and Social Justice

Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D.

JST 510 - Women in the Rabbinic Tradition

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

JST 511 - Love, Lament, and Realism: The Five Scrolls

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 515 - The Problem of Evil: The Jewish Response

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 516 - Judaism and Islam

Faculty

JST 517 - Comparative Liturgy of Judaism and Christianity

Faculty

JST 518 - Job and the Problem of Evil

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 523 - Harmony of the Spheres: Judaism and Science

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

JST 524 - Jewish Folklore

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 525 - Jews in the Contemporary World

Faculty

JST 528 - Jewish Historical Fiction

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 529 - Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Bible

Ruth N. Sandberg Ph.D.

JST 531 - Sociology of Israel

Harriet Hartman, Ph.D.

JST 532/732 - Modern Jewish Thought

Joseph Davis, Ph.D.

JST 533 - History of Sefardic Jews

Joseph Davis Ph.D.

JST 536 - Tragedy and Hope in the Book of Jeremiah

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 537/737 - The History of Modern Israel

Lee Lukoff, PhD

JST 545 From Ancient Synagogue to Post-Denominationalism: The Transformation of the Kehillah

Laurie Fischer, Ed.D.

JST 547 - Who's Who Among The Rabbis

Laurie Fisher, Ed.D.

JST 548 - Pirkei Avot: Ethics and Theology

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

JST 551 - Judaism's Encounter with Modernity

Brendan Goldman, Ph.D.

JST 552: Conversion to Judaism from the Bible to the Present

Dr. Laura Fisher

JST 577 - Jewish Memory and Historiography

Brendan Goldman

JST 603 - Comparative Theology of Judaism and Christianity

Faculty

JST 604 - Business and Workplace Ethics

Ruth N. Sandberg, Ph.D.

JST 605 - SP26B2/707 - SP26B - Colloquium D: Life After the Catastrophe: Soviet Jewry After World War II

Victoria Khiterer, Ph.D.

JST 605 - SU26A - Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination

Motti Inbari

JST 605-SU25B - Colloquium C: Jewish Studies as Lived Religion

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 605/805 - SU25B - History of the Jews of Islam

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 615/815 - Judaism and Christianity

Jewish Studies Faculty

JST 616 - The New Diaspora

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 620 - Jewish and Christian Saints

Faculty

JST 625 - The Jewish-Christian Encounter

Faculty

JST 628 - Kabbalistic Masters

Joseph M. Davis, Ph.D.

JST 630: Wrestling with the Parashat ha-Shavua

Laurie Fisher, Ed.D.

JST 701 - Seminar A: Seminal Works of Jewish Studies

Brendan Goldman, Ph.D.

JST 703 - Seminar C: Public Scholarship and Education

Rebecca Stoil

JST 704 - FA25B Colloquim A: Biblical Studies Methods

Alison Joseph

JST 705 - SU26B - Colloquium B: The Jewish Apocrypha: Texts Outside the Canon

Oana Capatina

JST 706 - SU26B - Colloquium C: Qualitative Methodology and Jewish Education

Lindsay Metzker

MUS 131 - Songs of My People

Faculty

Summer A

Start Date: 05/06/2026
Drop Deadline: 05/12/2026
End Date: 06/30/2026
Registration Opens: 03/15/2026

Traditional (15 weeks)

Start Date: 05/06/2026
Drop Deadline: 05/19/2026
End Date: 08/18/2026
Registration Opens: 03/16/2026

Summer B

Start Date: 07/01/2026
Drop Deadline: 07/07/2026
End Date: 08/25/2026
Registration Opens: 03/16/2026

Spring A

Start Date: 01/07/2026
Drop Deadline: 01/13/2026
End Date: 03/03/2026
Registration Opens: 11/10/2025

Traditional (15 weeks)

Start Date: 01/07/2026
Drop Deadline: 01/20/2026
End Date: 04/21/2026
Registration Opens: 11/10/2025

Spring B

Start Date: 03/04/2026
Drop Deadline: 03/10/2026
End Date: 04/28/2026
Registration Opens: 11/10/2025

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