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  Israel’s 2013 Election: At a Political Crossroad

  January 17, 2013 / Lectures Live

  On January 14, 2013, the Program for Jewish Civilization convened a day-long conference on the legislative elections that will be held on January 22 in Israel. The conference comprised three spectacular panels, bringing together scholars, policy practitioners, and journalists from all over Washington, DC and the Middle East. Moran Stern, who teaches for the PJC at Georgetown University, moderated a panel on domestic Israeli politics, made up of Natasha Mozgovaya of Haaretz and Natan Sachs of the Saban Center at [...]

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  Dan Schueftan on the Strategic Environment in the Middle East

  December 5, 2012 / Lectures Live

  In this talk, Professor Dan Schueftan discusses how the recent social and political changes in the Middle East affect the strategic environment there, particularly as it relates to Israeli and American foreign policy and the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Dr. Schueftan is the Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences there and at the Israel Defense Forces National Defense College. He is the Aaron and Cecile [...]

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  Hannah Rosenthal on Current Trends in Anti-Semitism

  December 5, 2012 / Faith Complex

  How do you differentiate between legitimate criticisms of the Israeli state and anti-Semitic sentiment? And how do you promote freedoms of expression while still curtailing anti-Semitic hate speech? Hannah Rosenthal, State Department Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Semitism, joins Jacques Berlinerblau on Faith Complex to explain how her office deals with these and other difficult questions. Created by a 2004 Congressional mandate, the Office of the Special Envoy aims to monitor the status of anti-Semitism and Jewish communities in [...]

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  David Friedman on Campus Anti-Zionism

  August 11, 2011 / Faith Complex

  What is the obligation of universities to protect freedom of speech? In 2010, Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren spoke at UC Irvine, where he was interrupted by anti-Israel protesters. Three years earlier, Columbia University hosted Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prominent denier of the Holocaust, homosexuality in Iran, and human rights. And this year marks the seventh annual Israeli Apartheid Week, which consists of university lectures and gatherings to protest the Israeli state. David Friedman is regional director [...]

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  Elana Shohamy Unpacks Monolingualism

  July 13, 2010 / Faith Complex

  Israel recognizes only two official languages, Hebrew and Arabic, but its linguistic tapestry is made up of dozens more, ranging from Yiddish and Ladino to English, Russian, Amharic, Persian, and the Marathi language of the Bene Israel of India. Immigrants from all over the globe have brought their unique cultural heritages to the country, but melding them proves to be a challenge. Elana Shohamy is Professor of Language Education in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University and specializes [...]

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