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Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

A Conversation with Professor Marsha Rozenblit

Professor Marsha Rozenblit featured in Mitzpeh
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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Recording- 2026 Gildenhorn Family Lecture

April 14, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

U.S. -Israel Relations in a Changing Middle East
RTVI US

Ilai Saltzman interviewed on RTVI US on April 14, 2026

April 14, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Ilai Saltzman interviewed about the US-Iranian negotiations

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Ilai Saltzman quoted on JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency), April 13, 2026

April 13, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Dr. Ilai Saltzman, Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, was quoted by JTA on J Street's position regarding U.S. military aid to Israel in the aftermath of the war in Gaza and the current war in Iran.

Recording: Five Points lecture- Precious Lord: Refuge, Reflection and Revolution in African American Music with Dean Stephanie Shonekan

March 26, 2026 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Dean Shonekan explores five songs that African American communities consistently cite as sites of worship..
ISPI Italian Institute For International Political Studies

Ilai Saltzman quoted in MED This Week newsletter, March 26, 2026

March 26, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Misalignments emerge between US and Israel's security priorities

Recording: Faith, Power, and Social Change: Jewish Religiosity in Contemporary Israel

March 11, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

This online discussion examines the growing role of Jewish religiosity in shaping contemporary Israeli society, politics, and culture.

Gildenhorn Family Gift Supports Signature Lecture Series at the University of Maryland

February 26, 2026 College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, will be the inaugural speaker on March 24

Recording: The American Jewish Community and Israel: Past, Present, and Future

February 23, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Explore the long and complex relationship between the American Jewish community and Israel, from its historical foundations to the challenges of the present and questions about the future.
ISPI Italian Institute for International Political Studies

Ilai Saltzman quoted in MED This Week newsletter on February 12, 2026

February 18, 2026 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

An imbalanced "Day After" for Gaza

Recording: An Exploration of Religious Alternative Food Movement in the United States

February 18, 2026 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Prof. Adrienne Krone discusses how religious and non-religious communities are reshaping the U.S. food system.