The Maurice Amado Foundation has awarded Cal State Northridge’s College of Humanities $500,000 for the creation of an endowed professorship in applied Jewish ethics and civic engagement.

The Maurice Amado Professor in CSUN’s Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Program will “teach and engage in scholarship drawn from the heritage of Sephardic, Ashkenazic and other Jewish traditions” with courses that will explore the “Jewish ethical approach to communal and political challenges,” according to the endowment agreement.

The Amado Foundation, established in 1961 with a mission to further Sephardic heritage and culture, now serves as a grant-making organization. It was CSUN’s longstanding service-learning component, which connects Northridge students of all religious backgrounds and ethnicities with the Los Angeles Jewish community, that drew the foundation’s attention.

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