Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice
| Motto | “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is not upon you to finish the work, but neither are you exempt from participating in it." Rabbi Tarfon |
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| Established | August 1977; relaunched August 2008 |
| Director | Aaron Hahn Tapper |
| Location | , , United States |
| Website | usfca |
The Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice is a Jewish studies program at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. Originally founded in 1977, and re-established in 2008, it is the only program in the world to formally link the fields of Social justice and Jewish studies. It offers a minor in Jewish Studies and Social Justice (JSSJ), an annual Social Justice Lecture, an annual Human Rights Lecture, an annual Social Justice Passover Seder, intermittent films, presentations, and workshops, a study-abroad course, and Ulpan San Francisco.