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  • Portrait of Smadar Ben-Natan, wearing a black button-up overcoat and blue-green patterened scarf, looking serious and confident, standing in front of a wall covered with colorful painted graffiti

Benaroya Fellow Smadar Ben-Natan receives $40,000 grant for research on incarceration and reconciliation in Israel/Palestine

Postdoctoral fellow Smadar Ben-Natan has received a grant of $40,000 to study the effects of political incarceration on reconciliation, as opposed to radicalization, in Israel/Palestine.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2021-02-01T10:40:50-08:00January 25th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Israel, Israel Studies|0 Comments
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  • Dov Waxman, wearing a suit and glasses, from the shoulders up

11/19 TALK | American Jews and Israel in the Trump Era: Polarization and Protest

Professor Dov Waxman will give the 2019 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of American Jewish support for Israel in the context of the Donald Trump presidency

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2020-01-16T14:28:38-08:00November 19th, 2019|Categories: Academic Lectures, Israel Studies|Tags: Israel Studies|0 Comments
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Israel Studies grant recipients research foreign policy, international connections, religious communities, and illicit trade in Israel

2019 graduate grantees research Israel’s foreign policy, contemporary religious communities, military, trade networks, and connections with Taiwan.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2019-11-01T11:37:17-07:00October 29th, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: Israel Graduate Grant, Israel Studies|0 Comments
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  • An empty classroom with long tables and seats, all empty. A black and red poster in Hebrew reading "Strike!" sits on the front table.

Protecting academic freedom in Israeli higher education

Israeli academics are feeling constrained by both old and new policies around higher education, writes Graduate Fellow Hayim Katsman.

By Hayim Katsman|2019-09-06T12:00:44-07:00January 29th, 2019|Categories: Israel & Hebrew Studies|Tags: Education, Graduate Student Writing, Israel, Israel Studies, Politics, Student Writing|0 Comments
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Using project-based learning to teach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Graduate Fellow Rob Keener explains that concepts and real-world connections are key to teaching history well.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-08-20T13:07:16-07:00May 11th, 2018|Categories: Israel & Hebrew Studies|Tags: Education, Graduate Student Writing, History, Israel, Israel Studies, Student Writing|2 Comments
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  • Collage of different versions of Wonder Woman since her creation

Wonder Woman and the superpower of Hebrew

The complexities of translating "Wonder Woman" into Hebrew can help us to think about what it means to be a "woman of valor."

By Naomi Sokoloff|2020-03-18T13:15:33-07:00May 9th, 2018|Categories: Hebrew & the Humanities, Israel & Hebrew Studies, Naomi Sokoloff's Blog|Tags: Faculty Writing, Hebrew, Israel, Israel Studies, Naomi Sokoloff|2 Comments
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  • The Israeli flag flies next to China's in a key flagpole near Tiananmen Square in Beijing

Israel in Asia? Why global trends are pushing Israel to “look east”

Graduate Fellow Sam Gordon explains how, in a shifting world order, Israel both is and isn't making a strategic "pivot to Asia."

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2020-07-27T13:53:46-07:00April 25th, 2018|Categories: Israel & Hebrew Studies|Tags: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Graduate Student Writing, Israel, Israel Studies, Politics, Student Writing|1 Comment
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Pursuing human rights and transitional justice in Jerusalem

Ondina "L.B." Lipney-Burger, '17, reflects on how her Jewish Studies degree supports her study of human rights and transitional justice in Jerusalem.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-06-21T16:00:55-07:00August 28th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Alumni, Israel, Israel Studies|0 Comments
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