{"id":18,"date":"2025-09-08T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:24:07","slug":"jce-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/jce-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"JCE Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>JCE Committee<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote type=\"cite\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>About the Jewish Cultural Endowment<\/strong><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Founded in 1984 with support from the Sherman family, the Jewish Cultural Endowment was created to bring a wide range of Jewish cultural programs to Boston University. Its founding vision embraced the arts, literature, religion, and philosophy, including programs that offer joy and humor as well as serious discussion. It placed particular emphasis on involving BU students.<\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>JCE has its own committee, which reviews proposals and makes funding decisions independently of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and BU Hillel.<\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JCE Committee<\/strong><span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span>Matthew Creighton \u2014 Interim Associate Director and Lecturer, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies; Professor of the Core Curriculum<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Andre de Quadros \u2014 Professor of Music and Music Education, College of Fine Arts<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Rabbi Jevin Eagle \u2014 Chief Executive Officer, Boston University Hillel; University Chaplain<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Sydney Gross \u2014 Assistant Dean for Communications, College of Arts &amp; Sciences<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Nancy Harrowitz \u2014 Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies; Professor of Italian and Jewish Studies, College of Arts &amp; Sciences<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Ethan Sobel \u2014 Executive Director, Boston University Hillel<\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Interested in serving on the committee?<\/em><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The JCE Committee brings together people committed to Jewish cultural life, including representatives of BU\u2019s faculty, administration, and student body, BU Hillel, and the Boston area Jewish community. Members review proposals and help guide JCE\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>If you are interested in serving when a position becomes available, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ewcjs@bu.edu\" data-linkindex=\"3\" title=\"mailto:ewcjs@bu.edu\">ewcjs@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0to introduce yourself and share your connection to Jewish cultural programming.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JCE Committee About the Jewish Cultural Endowment Founded in 1984 with support from the Sherman family, the Jewish Cultural Endowment was created to bring a wide range of Jewish cultural programs to Boston University. Its founding vision embraced the arts, literature, religion, and philosophy, including programs that offer joy and humor as well as serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23019,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}