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Rachel Fish '13, associate director, graduates with PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
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Schusterman Center and UC Berkeley Offer
Educator Institute on Israel and World Affairs
August 12-16, 2013 at UC Berkeley
Schusterman Center and UC Berkeley faculty from their History Social Science Project have teamed up to offer an SIIS-like program for high school and community college educators. Taking place at UC Berkeley August 12-16, enrollment is still open for those interested in developing teaching tools for a world history curriculum. Click here for details.
Podcasts of Center Events
Program and video from "Zionism in the Twenty-First Century" conference. February 17-18, 2013.
Keynotes by Anita Shapira, Tel Aviv University and Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic.
A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
With Daniel L. Byman, Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution, in March, 2012.
David Makovsky and Gaith al-Omari spoke in September, 2011. Watch a video of the event: UN Recognition of Palestinian Statehood - A New Dawn or Another Debacle?
Sayed Kashua, celebrated author, columnist and screenwriter, was invited in the spring of 2010 to share his body of work with several Brandeis classes.
Further details and audiocast of Arab Labor screening and Q&A
Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times, spoke in 2010 about the challenges faced by a journalist covering opposing narratives.
Additional information and link to audiocast
Amos Oz, world-renowned novelist, activist and public intellectual spoke of his personal perspective on Israel in a public lecture, and discussed his novel A Tale of Love and Darkness to a group of Summer Institute for Israel Studies fellows.
Videocast of Israel: A Personal Perspective and further information about the author
Justice Richard Goldstone and respondent Ambassador Dore Gold discussed the challenge of the U.N. Gaza Report in November 2009.
Further information and link to videocast