The Center has offered courses through UNCA's Special Academic Programs office: for instance, a series of lectures in 1985 based on Abba Eban's television series "Heritage." The Center's own Adult Institute for Jewish Studies, established in 1991, has presented courses in, for instance, the Dead Sea scrolls and Jewish biomedical ethics, and a four-week seminar, Crossing Bridges: Jewish and African-American Relations.

The Center has mounted several conferences entitled "Heritage: The Jewish Experience in the South."

In the Fall of 1990, the Center began offering annual forums, featuring international, national, regional and local speakers, on a variety of topics. The forums have included "Women in Judaism," "In and Out of Tradition: Encounters with Contemporary Jewish Writers," "Crossing Bridges: Encounters between the African-American and Jewish Communities," "Cowboys, Confederates and Belles: a look at Southeastern and Southwestern American Jewry," and "Where Judaism and Buddhism Cross Paths." Speakers have included Yehuda Amichai, Julius Lester, Aviva Cantor, Lynn Gotleib, Rodger Kamenetz, Lynn Sharon Schwartz, Harriet Rochlin, Amos Oz and many others.

The Center has sponsored major lectures and forums on such topics as Women in the Bible, addresses by visiting diplomats and journalists from Israel, and frequent brown-bag luncheon talks on such topics as the denial of the Holocaust and Christian beliefs about Jews.