JINES Awards

Steven S. Schwarzschild Prize for Excellence in Jewish Studies

2007: Alex Freedman & Aaron Weininger

2005: Corey Helfand - Senior Thesis: "Laying Down the Law: Understanding the Codification of Halacha (Jewish Law) and the Controversies that Exist within the Law"
2005: Evan Weiner - Senior Thesis: "Jerusalem in Ancient Israelite Traditions"

2003: Rebecca Baer
2003: Rebecca Saliman

2001: David Weiner

1999: Stacy D. Blumenthal

1997: Aaron Ben Schoenkerman

1993: Katherine Brooke Epstein

1991: Carie Michelle Carter

David and Sarah Visenberg Prize
for an Outstanding Honors Thesis
in Jewish Studies

2007: David Melvin - MA Thesis: "When Gods Were Men: The Mesopotamian Sources of Genesis 6:1-4 and the Watchers Tradition"

2006: Joshua Phillip Straus - Senior Thesis: "Calculating Celestial Cycles, Courses and Conjunctions: An Introduction to Sifrei Evronot (Books of Intercalculation)"

2005: Devin Naar - Senior Thesis: "A 20th Century Diaspora: Greek Government Policy and Jewish Emigration from Salonika, 1912-1924"

2005: Callie Richman - Senior Thesis: "Did God have a Consort? Yahweh and Asherah in Ancient Israel"