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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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Rachel Manekin Promoted to Full Professor

August 03, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Professor Manekin's most recent book is about Jewish women runaways in Habsburg Galicia
Haaretz

'We Saw Jews With Hearts Like Germans': Moroccan Immigrants in Israel Warned Families Not to Follow

July 10, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Thousands of letters written in the early years of the state by immigrant soldiers to their families in Morocco reveal a gloomy picture. Most wanted to go home
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

מקוון | עיראק, גליציה ושאלת הפרובינציה

June 15, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

סדרת שיחות: יהודים והאימפריות: דמיון פוליטי בזמן הזה

The Elizabeth and Richard Dubin Family Lecture

June 10, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Featuring David E. Sanger From The New York Times.
Middle East Institute

The Nascent Israeli Government: The Thread That Binds?

June 04, 2021 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

There is only one thread holding together the unprecedentedly disparate parties that will establish and support the nascent Israeli government announced on the night of June 2, an hour before the midnight deadline.
Haaretz

Israel Spied on Mizrahi Jews, Then Tried to Hide It

May 27, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Israel's security service tried to block the publication of classified materials with reports on surveillance, wiretapping and counter-operations against politically active Jews of North African and Middle Eastern origin
Haaretz

High Court Denies Petition Calling for Release of Israeli Secret Service Documents on Mizrahi Protests

April 07, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Releasing such materials could reveal the Shin Bet's methods and potentially threat 'national security,' the court said
Middle East Institute

No Kingmaker – And No King Following Israel’S Latest Election

March 25, 2021 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Now, with virtually all of the vote in and results unlikely to change, it is clear: Not only will there be no kingmaker, there will probably be no king.
Middle East Institute

As Israelis Head To The Polls Once Again, Is The Fourth Time The Charm?

March 22, 2021 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Israelis are going to the polls on Tuesday for the fourth time in two years.

Revised JWST Major Requirements

January 28, 2021 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

The major in Jewish Studies has been revised