SPME
Dear Colleagues: While the semester is shortly coming to an end, these past few weeks have been ripe with anti-Israel activity. We have seen Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Vassar intimidating students and faculty, and at the University…
read moreDear Colleagues: On the heels of the ASA and MLA meetings at which anti-Israel resolutions were discussed, and the “Israel Apartheid” weeks taking place on many campuses around the world, we are seeing a growing concern regarding the impact of…
read moreLetter from the Editor Dear Colleagues: This being the first Faculty Forum edition of 2014, I would like to start by wishing all our members a Happy and Healthy New Year! This issue also marks the first which will not…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is concerned that on November 14th The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Brooklyn College , spearheaded by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is hosting yet another well-known anti-Israel speaker—Ben White, whose…
read moreDear Friends, The current issue of the Faculty Forum brings our readers news and reports of ongoing problems. The famous French historian, Fernand Braudel, stated that there are several types of history: fast-moving history, slow-moving history, and history which hardly…
read moreWASHINGTON, DC (PRBuzz.com) August 23, 2012 — The Louis D. Brandeis Center today released its path-breaking LDB Best Practices Guide for Combating Campus Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism. The Brandeis Center is an international Jewish civil rights organization which combats anti-Semitism on…
read moreThe Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan seeks a scholar of Sephardic Jewry (15th-19th centuries) with strong interdisciplinary commitments. Specialization is open: history, religious studies, literature, anthropology, material culture, music, or gender studies. This scholar…
read moreCall for Papers for two Conferences to be held in Shanghai, China June 2012 Conference I Israeli Studies in China Introducing One Ancient Civilization to Another Thursday-Friday, 21-22 June 2012 ShanghaiInternational Studies University(SHISU) Conference II Future History…
read moreAre there plans for Peaceful Israel/Palestine that Israelis and Palestinians really prefer over remaining in the current situation? The BEST PLANS project will present a wide uncensored variety of plans for progressing beyond the current situation to politically representative…
read moreOn Christmas Eve 2011 there were 154,500 Christians living in Israel, who constitute 2% of the population of the State of Israel. 80.4% of the Christians in Israel are Christian Arabs; the remainder are mainly Christians who immigrated to…
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