Center News and Spotlights

CJHPS, in partnership with Western Galilee College, hosted the international online conference “New Insights on the Holocaust” in July 2025.

The 23rd Annual Rosen Summer Symposium brought together educators and community members for a powerful week of learning on July 10–16, 2025.

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies (CJHPS) is proud to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 White Rose Research Contest.

Monday was cold and rainy but over 30 people joined together in the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies to hold a service for the transfer of the Orphan Scroll from the Temple of the High Country to the …

The 22rd Annual Rosen Summer Symposium brought together educators and community members for a powerful week of learning on July 11-17, 2024.

The 21st Annual Rosen Summer Symposium brought together educators and community members for a powerful week of learning on July 7-13, 2023.

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day Auschwitz was liberated and in 2005 the UN made this day an international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN urges every member …

From May 21-29, 2022, 5 Appalachian State students embarked on a journey from North Carolina to Israel through the generous support of the Greensboro Jewish Federation’s Miriam and Abe Brenner Holocaust Education Scholarship Fund.

On August 1, 2022, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies hosted a day of remembrance and scholarship honoring the life of Rosemary Horowitz z”l.

In March 2022, Appalachian State University proudly hosted the Fourteenth Southeast German Studies Consortium (SEGSC) Workshop.

Center Programming Discussed in Campus News: The Appalachian on “Bread and Puppet provide performance, workshop to campus community”