Bedari Kindness Institute Program Coordinator

Dialogue Across Difference Initiative Student Internship AY 2025-26

Abigail Saguy/Dialogue Across Difference featured on Spectrum News 1

UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and ISH Host Adam Phillips for its Compassionate Conversation Series

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ISH hosts the California Commission on the State of Hate for Convening on Online and K-12 Hate Prevention Policy

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On October 31, scholars, policy makers, educators, and advocates from across California gathered in the Luskin Conference Center to develop innovative solutions for preventing and reducing hate online and in California schools. This convening…

Bedari Kindness Institute featured in Guibord Center series

On December 9th, BKI deputy director Maia Ferdman was featured in Take Heart Now: Spiritual Tools for Centering and Compassion, a series hosted by the Guibord Center, an interfaith organization promoting shared values including compassion,…

Dialogue across Difference Initiative

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Dear Bruin Community We are writing to share that the UCLA Dialogue across Difference (DaD) Initiative, which is now housed in the Bedari Kindness Institute, is sponsoring a range of programs, trainings and teaching opportunities on campus…

Appointment of David N. Myers, Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History appointed Faculty Director of the Bedari Kindness Institute

Dear Colleagues, Following an internal search, David N. Myers, Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History in the UCLA Department of History, has been named faculty director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. The…