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Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

UMD annual Dubin Family Lecture welcomes Israeli writer Etgar Keret

Israeli writer Etgar Keret speaks at the Dubin Lecture held at the Clarice Performing Arts Center on Sept. 16, 2024.
December 18, 2023 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Dr. Ilai Saltzman interviewed on Scripps News

IDF Troops Accidentally kill 3 hostages

April 01, 2022 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

How Language instructors are creating a gender-inclusive Hebrew

Every language in the world has a different relationship with gender. English sits with Finnish and Chinese with no grammatical gender, while the most commonly spoken languages in Europe and some in the Middle East use gender to classify their nouns.
February 28, 2022 English, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

UMD Students and Faculty Say They Want ‘Academic Freedom,’ Not Book Bans

First-year English graduate student Shannon Neal interviewed by the Diamondback.
February 27, 2022 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Hebrew review of Dr. Shay Hazkani's book

Dr. Shay Hazkani's book gets rave reviews

February 27, 2022 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Arabic review of Dr. Shay Hazkani's book

Dr. Shay Hazkani's book gets rave reviews

February 08, 2022 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, College of Arts and Humanities

US Response to Antisemitism is Reactive, Uncoordinated, Report Claims

Ahead of Deborah Lipstadt's confirmation hearing as antisemitism envoy, former senior Obama administration officials calls for Biden to coordinate a whole-of-government approach.
November 24, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, History

Margins of History: On Shay Hazkani's "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War"

SOON WE WILL search In the margins of your history, in distant countries, For what was once our history. And in the end, we will ask ourselves: Was Andalusia here or there? On the land … or in the poem?
September 29, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls to life with Maxine Grossman

It was 1989, and Grossman was in Israel on a college study program, getting "down in the dirt," as she puts it now, at the remains of the ancient Jewish city Sepphoris.
September 17, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Jewish Soft Power and Yom Kippur at the United Nations

The story of how the world organization pegged the Jewish fast day as a holiday embodies the long history of the ‘shtadlan’s’ behind-the-scenes diplomacy.

In the News

The Baltimore Banner October 07, 2024

US Senate candidates Hogan, Alsobrooks navigate complex Middle East policy

Dr. Ilai Saltzman weights in on The Baltimore Banner.
Scripps News December 18, 2023

Dr. Ilai Saltzman interviewed on Scripps News

IDF Troops Accidentally kill 3 hostages

The Diamondback April 01, 2022

How Language instructors are creating a gender-inclusive Hebrew

Every language in the world has a different relationship with gender. English sits with Finnish and Chinese with no grammatical gender, while the most commonly spoken languages in Europe and some in the Middle East use gender to classify their nouns.

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Watch Now: Book Talk: Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth

February 07, 2025 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Israel's Black Panthers

Join Matt Suriano at The Catholic University on Saturday, Feb. 8th for a workshop on Really Dead Languages And Their Epigraphy II

February 07, 2025 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Really Dead Languages And Their Epigraphy II

Congrats to Charlie Summers on his recent published article in Al Noor!

February 04, 2025 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Effects of the 'Survey Land' Classification on Illegal Outpost Growth in the West Bank
EWTN News Nightly

Ilai Saltzman interviewed on EWTN News Nightly about the Trump-Netanyahu visit in the White House

February 04, 2025 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Saltzman addresses the Trump-Netanyahu meeting in the White House
BRILL

Recent Publication: Jews and State Building by Bernard Cooperman

December 09, 2024 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Early Modern Italy, and Beyond
Chicago, The University of Chicago Press

New Book: Black Knights by Rachel Schine

November 30, 2024 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Congratulations to Rachel Schine on her new book!
Middle East Institute

Ilai Saltzman interviewed on MEI podcast about the US-Israeli relations under the Trump Administration

November 21, 2024 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

How might US-Israeli relations evolve under the Trump administration?

Watch Now: Women in the IDF: Insights from the Israel-Hamas War

October 30, 2024 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Prof. Ayelet Harel discusses women's roles in the IDF and their impact on the changing landscape of war and security.

Watch Now: Assimilated With Other Jews: How to Make Sense of Modern Jewish History

October 29, 2024 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

The Meyerhoff Center's second Five Points lecture featuring Dr. Marsha Rozenblit speaking about how Jews assimilated and retained their identity in 19th-century Europe.

Watch Now: Religious Divide(s) Inside Israel Post-October 7

October 15, 2024 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Uncover the complexities of religious and political divisions in Israel as Dr. Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar examines media representations and their impact on society.