A $1.5 million distinguished professorship in Jewish studies will be named in honor of alumnus Stuart E. Eizenstat '64, who served as the lead investigator for Holocaust reparation agreements and deputy secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration. David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C., has pledged $500,000 to help establish the UNC professorship. Full story

Lectures for spring 2008 probe music, the South, more

Jewish music, Zionist ideology and Jewish merchants in the post-Civil War South are among topics to be explored in a spring lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Full story

Jewish studies to recruit rising faculty star with $1 million gift

A $1 million gift to the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will allow the center to recruit a rising faculty star in modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The gift is from two Charlotte families: Lori and Eric Sklut, and Lori's parents, Leon and Sandra Levine. Full Story

Screening of film on Jewish baseball star opens fall 2007 lectures

The life and times of America’s first Jewish baseball star will be the topic of a film screening and discussion Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. at UNC-Chapel Hill. The event kicks off the fall 2007 lecture series of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Full Story

UNC Hires Professor of Modern Jewish Thought

The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that Jonathan Boyarin will join UNC's faculty in the fall as Kaplan Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the Department of Religious Studies. This distinguished professorship is named in honor of Leonard and Tobee Kaplan, who made a generous gift to CCJS to establish the position. Full Story

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