Monday, November 2, 2026, 5:30–7:00 pm PT
ANKO 109, Stanford University, and online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Registration required; in-person seating is limited.
American Jews have long been irked by their absence from government forms, and just as wary of any state effort to decide who is Jewish and who is not. California’s newly signed SB 1387 lets Jews identify themselves as Jewish when answering questions about ethnicity. Is this good for the Jews of California, or will there be unintended consequences? And how are Jews feeling about it?
Join a conversation with the leader of the coalition that sponsored the bill, a sociologist who studies how census questions shape who gets counted, a rabbi who leads Jewish engagement at American Jewish University, and scholars who are grappling with the implications of this change for Jews in California.
The panel
David BocarslyCEO, Jewish California
Keith FeldmanAssociate Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Ari Y. KelmanProfessor of Education, Stanford University
Rabbi Tarlan RabizadehVice President for Jewish Engagement, American Jewish University
Aliya SapersteinProfessor of Sociology, Stanford University
Asaf Elia-Shalev ModeratorEditor in Chief, J. The Jewish News of Northern California
Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Berman Archive, J. The Jewish News of Northern California, New Lehrhaus, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies, and the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies.
Free and open to the public. Join us at Stanford or on Zoom. Registration is required, and in-person seating is limited.
Questions? Email bermanarchive@stanford.edu.
