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Rabbi David Wolpe was a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, the inaugural rabbinic fellow at the Anti-Defamation League, and the Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA. Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in…
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Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliated faculty member at the University of Haifa. He is the author or editor of 36 books, including six about…
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The main battleground for the Boycott Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been on the University campuses of the western world especially in Britain and the United States. Dr Ronnie Fraser will discuss how the campus protests against Israel’s war…
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Ilan Troen is emeritus of both the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies (Brandeis, 2017), and the Lopin Chair of Modern History (Ben-Gurion University, 2007). He has served as founding director of the Israel Studies centers at both institutions and…
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Behnam Ben Taleblu is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a non-partisan think-tank in DC where he covers Iranian political and security issues. Mr. Taleblu has worked on the Iran question at FDD for over…
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Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as chief of staff for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner…
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Michal Cotler-Wunsh is Israel’s Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and a prominent public speaker, author, researcher, and independent policy and strategy advisor on intersecting issues of antisemitism, law, human rights, and Zionism. Previously, Michal was a member of Israel’s 23rd Knesset.…
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Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. Internationally recognized for his leadership in Jewish affairs, Rabbi Hirsch is frequently cited in the media. In 2018, The Jerusalem Post named him among “The 50 Most Influential Jews…
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While pervasive antisemitism on America’s college campuses is nothing new, the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th unleashed a storm of Jew-hatred not seen since Germany in the 1920s and 30s. The aggressive and violent encounters by Jewish students…
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David E. Bernstein holds a University Professorship chair at the Antonin Scalia Law School, where he has been teaching since 1995. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Georgetown University, William & Mary, Brooklyn Law…
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