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Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Jewish studies professor revives course on Mizrahi identity in Israel

In his 300-level class, Maryland professor Shay Hazkani will address a lesser-known issue in Israeli society: the state’s mistreatment of Mizrahi Jews
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.
January 01, 2019 History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Petition Demands Release of Classified Israeli Documents on 1950s Immigrant Transit Camps

Association for Civil Rights in Israel wants information from security service about suppression of protests by immigrants from North Africa and Mideast.

In the News

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.
The Diamondback February 28, 2022

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

First-year English graduate student Shannon Neal interviewed by the Diamondback.

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Washington Jewish Week

Israeli Stage Tackles Tough Issues In Translation

February 16, 2017 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Play encourages a second look at the simplistic understanding of gender, identity and womanhood.

Graduate Student Film Series To Continue

January 27, 2017 History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

The Miller Center's Graduate Student Film Series will continue its Maryland Film Series this spring.

Eckstein's 'Bad Moon Rising' Reviews In The Chronicle Of Higher Education

January 27, 2017 History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Eckstein's 'Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution," was reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Diamondback

President Trump's Plan To Defund Two Endowments Threatens Umd Arts And Humanities Funding

January 26, 2017 History, American Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Honors Humanities, School of Music, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

At UMD, federal funding supports work being done in the "true public sphere, not just the elite public sphere."
Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre

Palestinian Politics After Abbas

September 01, 2016 College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Paul Scham weighs in on Israeli-Palestinian relations in a post-Abbas era.

Jerusalem Post: If You Build Israel Studies, They Will Come

August 30, 2016 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

Mitchell Bard highlights the University of Maryland's exceptional Israel Studies program.
The Jerusalem Post

If You Build Israel Studies, They Will Come

August 30, 2016 College of Arts and Humanities, Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies

UMD Israel Studies Program praised in the Jerusalem Post.

Fifteen Arhu Students Win Summer 2016 Bright Futures Scholarships

May 10, 2016 History, American Studies, Art, Classics, Communication, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congratulations to the 15 ARHU students who won the Summer 2016 Bright Futures Scholarships!
Washington Jewish Week

Puppet State

April 13, 2016 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Washington Jewish Week reviews "Salt of the Earth," a puppet show about a dystopic world.

Dr. Shay Hazkani Is Our New Assistant Professor In The Jews Of Muslim Lands/Mizrahi Jewry

March 24, 2016 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

Dr. Hazkani, a specialist in Israeli and Middle Eastern History, joins The Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland.