October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News, part...
Bradley Burston, 5/19/24
October 7th and the subsequent war in Gaza have deeply shaken the Haredi community in Israel and upended the long-simmering hostility between the Haredim and secular Israelis. Prof. Benjamin Brown, an expert on the Haredi community, will describe the response to October 7th and the war by a community that is often seen—erroneously—as insular and disconnected from Israel’s security and political arenas.
The Holocaust and the Yishuv (The Jewish Community in Palestine)
Prof. Eran Kaplan, 5/2/24
While members of the Jewish Yishuv were not in a position to impact the course of the Second World War, the war and the Sho’ah had a profound impact on the Yishuv (and the young state of Israel). In this talk, we will explore the way the Yishuv and its leadership reacted to the War, the way political and ideological divisions shaped the attitudes of members of the Yishuv towards the events in Europe, and how these differences helped define some of the core political divisions in the immediate aftermath of Israeli independence.
October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News, part...
David Waksberg, 3/15/24
October 7th and the subsequent war in Gaza have deeply shaken the Haredi community in Israel and upended the long-simmering hostility between the Haredim and secular Israelis. Prof. Benjamin Brown, an expert on the Haredi community, will describe the response to October 7th and the war by a community that is often seen—erroneously—as insular and disconnected from Israel’s security and political arenas.
October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News, part...
Prof. Benjamin Brown, 2/18/24
October 7th and the subsequent war in Gaza have deeply shaken the Haredi community in Israel and upended the long-simmering hostility between the Haredim and secular Israelis. Prof. Benjamin Brown, an expert on the Haredi community, will describe the response to October 7th and the war by a community that is often seen—erroneously—as insular and disconnected from Israel’s security and political arenas.
October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News, part...
Michal Sella & Mohammad Darawshe, 2/4/24
A discussion with leaders of Givat Haviva Educational Center, Israel’s most veteran “Shared Society” organization, reflecting on the their work since the October 7 attack and ensuing Israel-Gaza War. Hear how they’ve been working to address fear and uncertainty between Jews and Arabs, and about their experience providing a haven at their campus for evacuated families from the south of Israel.
A partnership program with the NEW ISRAEL FUND: nif.org
October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News, part...
Rabbi Naamah Kelman & Dr. Elan Ezrachi, 1/18/24
Have October 7th and the ensuing war upended the relationship between Israelis and Diaspora Jews? Our presenters reflect on the state of the relationship between the American Jewish community and Israel in recent years and in the wake of the October 7th events.
October 7th & the Israel-Gaza War: Behind and Beyond the News, part...
Ken Bob — 11/5/23
Kenneth Bob, President of Ameinu—who has been in Israel since before October 7th—provides a “report from the ground” covering the war, the hostage situation, the state of affairs in Gaza, and life on the home front. Go to www.sfbay4israel.org for information about the Bay Area jewish community’s response and resources.
Key Legal Issues in Israel’s Judicial Reform
Kenneth Mann, JD
The Judicial Reform proposed by Netanyhu’s government encompasses a complex web of proposed legislation with the hallmark one, revoking of the “unreasonableness clause” under review by Israel’s Supreme Court (September 12). One of Israel’s leading civil rights attorneys provides a deep dive into the legal issues in the context of a fuller understanding of Israel’s judicial system.
Crisis in Israel: What Happened? What’s Next?
Our experts explain the Judicial Reform crisis:
– Prof. Fania Oz-Salzberger (Haifa University Emerita, History & Law)
– Bradley Burston (Ha’Aretz Columnist: “A Special Place in Hell”)
– Kenneth Bob (President of Ameinu & Project Rozana USA, Board member J. Street)
– Prof. Eli Salzberger (Haifa University School of Law)
Moderator: David Biale (Emanuel Ringelblum Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, UC Davis)
Give Peace a Chance
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed and Prof. Yael Teff-Seker
This session will focus on how research and activism on environmental challenges, with a special emphasis on water, build bridges between Israeli Jews and Arabs, Palestinians, and Jordanians.
Give Peace a Chance, part 3
Orli Bein with New Israel Fund grantees Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green of Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together) and Ahlam Kasim Ali and Lev Littman of Tzedek Centers
Give Peace a Chance, part 1
The series features projects that create bridges between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as neighboring Jordan. SESSION 1: Medicine (Project Rozana) and Technology (Tech2Peace) with Kenneth Bob, Uri Rosenberg and Abeer Bandak
The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives, part 6
Eleanor Shapiro
1988-2008: From Oslo to Stalemate
The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives, part 5
Eleanor Shapiro
From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada (1968 – 1988)
Oh, the Hora! American Klezmer and Israeli Folk Music in Conversation
Uri Schreter
Musicologist Uri Schreter presents his research on American Jewish weddings in the 1950s, based on recordings, archives, and interviews with klezmorim from that era.
What Now? Analysis of Israel’s Elections
Ken Bob
Israel’s fifth election in 3 years speaks volumes on its deeply divided society and the fragmentation of its political parties.
The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives, part 4
Eleanor Shapiro
1948 – 1967: Independence / Nakba
The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives, part 3
Eleanor Shapiro
Mandate Palestine, part 2 (1936 -1948)
The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives, part 2
Eleanor Shapiro
Mandate Palestine (1922-1936)
The Intractable Middle East: Dual Narratives, part 1
Eleanor Shapiro
Setting the Stage: Late Ottoman Empire – end of WWI
Hebrew Writers: Film Biographies and Text Reading
Vered Weiss
Leah Goldberg: Constructions of Home and Belonging
Hebrew Writers: Film Biographies and Text Reading, part 3
Vered Weiss
Chaim Nachman Bialik: Between the Private and Political
Hebrew Writers: Film Biographies and Text Reading, part 2
Shirelle Doughty
Jacqueline Kahanoff: In Praise of the Levant
Hebrew Writers: Film Biographies and Text Reading, part 1
Shirelle Doughty
Yona Wallach: Hebrew and the Sexmaniac
Between Shtisel and Fauda: Images of Israeli Men in Israeli TV Series, part 4
Ilan Vitemberg
Examine how Israeli men are portrayed in such popular Israeli TV series as Fauda, Shtisel, and When Heroes Fly, and explore how these portrayals could serve as a lens through which we explore Israeli society and the Zionist endeavor more broadly.
Between Shtisel and Fauda: Images of Israeli Men in Israeli TV Series, part 3
Ilan Vitemberg
Examine how Israeli men are portrayed in such popular Israeli TV series as Fauda, Shtisel, and When Heroes Fly, and explore how these portrayals could serve as a lens through which we explore Israeli society and the Zionist endeavor more broadly.
Between Shtisel and Fauda: Images of Israeli Men in Israeli TV Series, part 2
Ilan Vitemberg
Examine how Israeli men are portrayed in such popular Israeli TV series as Fauda, Shtisel, and When Heroes Fly, and explore how these portrayals could serve as a lens through which we explore Israeli society and the Zionist endeavor more broadly.
Between Shtisel and Fauda: Images of Israeli Men in Israeli TV Series, part 1
Ilan Vitemberg
Examine how Israeli men are portrayed in such popular Israeli TV series as Fauda, Shtisel, and When Heroes Fly, and explore how these portrayals could serve as a lens through which we explore Israeli society and the Zionist endeavor more broadly.
Change in Israel
Tovah Birnbaum
The social protest movement began in Tel Aviv with young people setting up tents on a major street to protest the prohibitive cost of living, evolving into a process of political change. This presentation tracks the process, and its impact on Israeli politics and society.
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