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Shai Davidai
Apr
15

Shai Davidai

ACF: An Intimate Conversation with Shai Davidai

ACF-Hunter College is pleased to welcome ACF members to join Chapter Leader Michael Mantell and ACF’s Melanie Borker in a conversation with Columbia Professor Shai Davidai. The program will include a brief interview and a longer Q&A session.

Date: Monday, April 15, 2024
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Manhattan | Address Provided Upon Registration

In-person registration is closed. Zoom registration is available here!

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Izabella Tabarovsky
Oct
25

Izabella Tabarovsky

The Cult of Antizionism: The Soviet Origins of Contemporary Campus Antisemitism

A talk by Izabella Tabarovsky
Contributing writer at Tablet Magazine; Senior Advisor on Regional Partnerships and Programming at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center

Introduced and Moderated by Richard Wolin
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, History & Political Science

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Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi
Sep
21

Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi

The Palestinian Peace Activist Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi.

Formerly Professor of Political Science, Al-Quds University, Founder of the Wasatia Movement, and recipient of the Simon Wiesenthal Award for Civic Engagement to Combat Antisemitism will speak on

Advocating Empathy and Reconciliation in the Midst of Conflict

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Jonathan Greenblatt and Frank H. Wu
Apr
27

Jonathan Greenblatt and Frank H. Wu

It Could Happen Here

CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, and Queens College President, Frank H. Wu.

The Center for Jewish Studies and Queens College will welcome Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), to join Queens College President Frank H. Wu for its annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. The event’s title is the same as that of Jonathan’s book: It Could Happen Here.

This hybrid event will take place in person in Rosenthal Library 230 and will be livestreamed.

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Yosef Mendelevich
Dec
7

Yosef Mendelevich

Prisoner of Zion

Yosef Mendelevich is a hero of the Soviet Jewry movement. He was part of the attempt to fly a plane out of the USSR to proclaim the right of free emigration and defied the Soviet regime in the Leningrad Trial and for 11 years in the Gulag.

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Khaled Abu Awwad and Yakov Nagen
Nov
23
CAFI

Khaled Abu Awwad and Yakov Nagen

From Other to Brother – Transformative Encounters on the West Bank

Sheikh Khaled Abu Awwad is the leader of a clan in Beit Ummar, a Palestinian town near Hebron. The clan was prominent in the first intifada but has since worked for coexistence. Rabbi Yakov Nagen is the director of Ohr Torah Stone's Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and a Rabbi at the Otniel Yeshiva. He is also the co-chair of the Abrahamic Reunion, an Israeli/Palestinian organization which seeks peace by making connections and working to make religion a unifying rather than a dividing factor.

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Cary Nelson
Nov
16
PSC-CUNY

Cary Nelson

Israel Between War and Peace: An Attempt at Solutions

PSC-CUNY CSI Chapter Invited Talk

Cary Nelson is the Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cary served as President of the American Association of University Professors for six years. This talk is part of a two-part series by the CSI Chapter of PSC-CUNY. The first part will be given by The Edward Said Professor of History at Columbia University, Rashid Khalidi.

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