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Bruce Hoffman: “How October 7 Changed Everything: Lessons from Terrorism for Counterterrorism”

Rutgers Academic Building 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, United States

Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University and the Council on Foreign Relations) has been studying terrorism and insurgency for almost half a century. He is the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. David senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations and a tenured professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign … Read More

Office hours with researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

Rutgers Hillel 70 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

(drop by when you can): Office hours with researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a group that gathers data to expose political extremism on both the right and the left, as well as other troubling sociocultural phenomena. More information is at https://networkcontagion.us/. NCRI is working to gather information on antisemitism and is looking … Read More

2024 Bishop Lecture: The Robison Hebrew Manuscript Collection: 50 Yemenite Treasures in Our Midst

Alexander Library

Gary Rendsburg will deliver the Bishop Lecture, “The Robinson Hebrew Manuscript Collection: 50 Yemenite Treasures in Our Midst.” While not officially a JFAS event, we are thrilled that Gary has been asked to deliver this prestigious lecture. In person at Alexander Library. A calendar invitation can be downloaded from https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/12100082. Rutgers Distinguished Professor Gary A. … Read More

Arab-Israeli Journalist Lucy Aharish

Academic Building Room 2160 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

About Lucy Aharish First Arab to present the news on mainstream Israeli TV Israeli news presenter, reporter, and television host on Israel's Channel 2 Prime-time manager, anchorwoman, and present of the evening edition of i24news and host of a morning news show on Israeli channel 2 Winner of the OMETZ (courage) award for her fight … Read More

Talk with Dr. Miriam Elman, Executive Director of Academic Engagement Network (AEN): Asessing the Post-October 7 Campus Landscape

Zoom

Dr. Elman will speak with JFAS about the conditions impacting Jewish and openly Zionist students and faculty on U.S. campuses after October 7. She will identify current trends and the work of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) in supporting faculty nationwide and its efforts to address antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on U.S. campuses. Miriam F. … Read More

Teach in: The Rising Threat of Academic Boycotts with Netta Barak-Corren and Ronald R. Krebs

Zoom

Since October 7, Israeli researchers and faculty have felt the chilling effects of a flourishing global boycott movement. In a shift that’s taken hold at high levels of American academia, Israeli scholars and universities have been barred from conferences, squeezed out of research grants, and cut out of collaboration with colleagues around the world. Is … Read More