It is only the second day of the semester and already we are promoting our first Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies event. As the Jewish New Year coincides with the academic new year, we are devoting our first program to learning about the deeper mysteries of Rosh Hashanah!

Rabbi Yankel Golden will be speaking on September 8 at 2 PM in DeBartolo Hall 558.

Light refreshments will be served.

The event it open to YSU students, faculty, and staff.

To learn more about CJHS’s Model Knesset event, read our page dedicated to this internationally recognized program.

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov wrote a review of CJHS director Dr. Adam Fuller’s book, The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership. The article appeared in this week’s edition of The Jewish Press.

Click here to read the online version.

On Thursday, January 15, CJHS director Dr. Adam Fuller will give a co-talk at the  Jewish Community Center of Youngstown as a lunch and learn. The talk, titled “From Exodus to Freedom Rides: Jewish and Black Americans Marching Together for Civil Rights” will address the relationship between Jewish and African American civil rights movements, particularly in the 1960s. The event is sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Click here to read Youngstown State University’s press release.

 

CJHS Director’s op-ed, “Stories of Jewish Heroism and the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’” was featured in The Jewish Journal on December 4, 2025.

You can read Dr. Fuller’s article here.