Recent Senior Theses
2013
Eitan Cooper: "Milah Confronts Modernity: Analyzing Debats Over Circumcision Technique"
Emma Green: "Judaism in the Buckle of the Bible Belt: The Oklahoma City Jewish Community"
Schneck Tamar: "The Mellah: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Narratives on Urban Spaces"
Erica Shaps: "Living Strones in the 21st Century: The Complicated Identity of Christian Arabs in Israel
Sarah Geller: "Hezbollah's Lebanonization and its Effects on the Israel-Lebanon Relationship from 2004-2008
2012
Brian Blumenthal: “InTension: PresenTense and the Reinvention of the Next Generation Jew”
Hillel Buechler: “Uvah Teheze: Biblical Criticism and Halakhah in Modern Jewish Thought”
Ethan Goldberg: “In the Shadow of Sulzer: The Mixed Legacy of Cantor Alois Kaiser”
Ilana Sidorsky: “Hamakom Yinachem Etchem: Understanding the Impact of Jewish Mourning Rituals Within Developing Jewish Identity”
2011
Emily Jaeger: “Differences Within: Gender and Gender-Bending in Ugaritic Mythological, Epistolary, Legal and Administrative Texts”
Joshua Jerusalmi: “A Monumental Statement: Placement and Meaning in the Shaw and New England Holocaust Memorial”
Madeline Mayer: Service Learning Programs in Jewish Day School
Hannah Perlman: “The Language and Legacy of Violence in the Akedah”
2010
Marnina Cowan: “The Position of the Hebrew Language among Arab Citizens of Israel" in Hebrew, "יחסם של ערבים אזרחי ישראל לשפה העברית"
Talia Graff: “From Ideology to the Classroom: Israel Education in the Religious Schools of a Reform and a Conservative Congregation”
Zach Margulies: "Upon the Shoulders of the Seaward Philistines:" Philistine Governance in the Iron Age I and IIA”
Garrett Nada: “The Self-Identity of the Naqab-Bedouin Students of Ben-Gurion University”
Rebecca Shapiro: “Memories Never Die: The Significance of Objects in a Survivor's Tale”
Emily Watkins: “On the Border of Fire: Origins of the National Religious Settler Movement in Israel “
2009
Elizabeth Imber: “Scottish Missionary Work among Jews in the 19th Century”
Yael Rooks-Rapport: Post-Jewish Art
Sara Smith: “Imahot Liturgy: A Study of the Historic Development of the Insertion of the Imahot into the Amidah”
Recent Senior Theses in the IMES Program
Noa Balf: “Women’s Issues and the Israeli Knesset”
Avi Biehler: “Early Islamic Political Theory”
Hamilton Cook: “The Sultan of Lovers Drunk on the Sobering Wine of Gnosis: Sobriety, Knowledge, and Detachment in Ibn al-Fāriḍ's Mystical Poetry”
Marc Eder: “ The British Invasion of Egypt in 1882”
Asher Bublick Eitan: “The Legacy of the Yishuv Political System on the Israeli Constitution: Obstacles towards Adopting an Entrenched Constitution”
Charles Gandelman: “Comparison of Political Philosophy of Al-Farabi and Maimonides”
Garrett Nada: “The Self-Identity of the Naqab-Bedouin Students of Ben-Gurion University”
Hannah Levinger: “The Philosophical, Religious, and Literary Significance of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan”