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Israel is inextricably linked with the past, present and future of the Jewish people. Despite its profound centrality and importance to Jewish life, Israel remains a deeply divisive topic for American Jewry and beyond . Even as Israel is redefining…
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Sam Westrop has headed Islamist Watch since March 2017, when MEF absorbed the counter-extremism unit of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), where he was the research director. Before that, he ran Stand for Peace, a London-based counter-extremism organization monitoring…
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Jay P. Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. At Heritage, Jay conducts and disseminates research on the key issues facing education today, including the cultural, civic, and economic implications of…
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Alan Dowty distills over half a century of study as an inside/outside analyst of Israel in tracing this remarkable story. Alan Dowty taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1963-1975) before coming to Notre Dame in 1975. He retired at…
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David Patterson holds the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Annual Scholars’ Conference on…
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Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Expert in anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech and memory laws.…
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A new ideology has emerged from the progressive Left in America. Often described as anti-racism or “wokeness,” this ideology proposes that structural racism is at the heart of America’s inequities, the only truly fundamental American characteristic and its most important one.…
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Corinne E. Blackmer is a Professor of English and Judaic Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on everything from opera and modern Israeli literature to modernism and Jewish women’s poetry, fiction,…
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Olga Deutsch serves as vice president of an Israeli applied research institute NGO Monitor. She brings extensive experience in international politics, Europe Israel relations with particular emphasis on international development and humanitarian aid and civil society. Deutsch is an expert…
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William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School. He is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the…
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