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US-Israel Alzheimer’s Disease Conference in Tel Aviv

Information: June 5, 2025; Tel Aviv, Israel

Rutgers University is working in partnership with Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University to bring together top researchers to advance Alzheimer’s disease collaboration between the US and Israel. The conference will include expert talks, networking, and a poster session for students & postdocs. Preregistration is required for attendance and capped at 200 people. Conference details and registration here: https://brainhealth.rutgers.edu/us-israel/ View Full Poster

Antisemitism and the Law: A Talk with Mark Goldfeder

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May 1, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Zoom

Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder, Esq. is the Founder, CEO and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Inc. Previously, he served as the Senior Partner with Goldfeder & Terry, LLC., as the founding Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Law and Judaism, a Trustee of the Center for Israel Education, and as an adviser to the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations. Mark has taught law across the country and around the world. His work focuses on law and religion,...

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Exclusive Film Screening & Discussion: Tragic Awakening

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April 2, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Rutgers NB (screening location to be provided)

Join us for an in-person screening of Tragic Awakening, a powerful new documentary exploring the roots of antisemitism in the wake of October 7. A live discussion with producer Raphael Shore and peace activist Rawan Osman to follow, moderated by Aseret Global's Nitzan Bergman. Screening location on NB campus and registration details to be provided to registrants prior to event date. See official movie trailer at tragicawakening.com View Full Poster Register Here

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Workshop: "Free Speech & Civil Discourse"

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March 12, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Murray Hall Room 302, New Brunswick - the Plangere Writing Center

Learn from staff members at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) about your First Amendment rights on campus and what you can do to defend them. You'll also put these free speech rights into practice by learning techniques for how to lead and moderate conversations about controversial topics. Hosted by Heterodox Academy (HxA), an organization that works to foster open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement on college campuses and in academia as a...

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JFAS Meeting with Dr. Cary Nelson: “Mindless: What Has Happened to Universities?”

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March 10, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Zoom

Cary Nelson is the Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Emeritus) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was President of the national AAUP from 2006-2012 and is currently Chairman of the Alliance for Academic Freedom. Dr. Nelson is author of Mindless: What Happened to Universities? (2025) and Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024). A prominent scholar and leading expert on higher education, Dr. Nelson has been invited to...

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JFAS Shabbat Dinner at Rutgers Hillel

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March 7, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Rutgers Hillel, 70 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ

Join JFAS members for a community Shabbat dinner at Rutgers Hillel. RSVP Here

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JFAS Meeting with Israeli Journalist Nadav Eyal: "State of the Gaza War, Israeli Politics and the American Universities"

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February 18, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Zoom

Nadav Eyal is one of Israel's most prominent journalists and a winner of the Sokolov Award—Israel's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. He writes columns for Yediot Ahronot and Ynet, Israel's most widely circulated newspaper and news website, respectively. He also serves as a senior commentator for Channel 12, one of Israel's two commercial channels. He is a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Faculty of International and Public Affairs.

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Title VI “Know Your Rights” Webinar

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December 19, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom

As we continue to observe an alarming rise in antisemitism on college campuses, it is important to know your rights as a faculty member. What should you do when you or someone you know faces antisemitism on campus? What role does the U.S. Department of Education have in safeguarding the campus community? What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how does it protect you? Webinar sponsored by AEN, ADL, and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

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

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December 5, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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 there a way out of this mess? SAPIR Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens interviewed Netta Barak-Corren, the Haim H. Cohn Chair in Human Rights Law...

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

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December 4, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom

Dr. Elman spoke with JFAS about the conditions impacting Jewish and openly Zionist students and faculty on U.S. campuses after October 7. She identified 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. Elman has served since 2019 as Executive Director of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), an educational nonprofit that builds nationwide networks of...

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

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April 2, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alexander Library

Rutgers Distinguished Professor Gary A. Rendsburg delivered the 35th annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture, entitled “The Robison Hebrew Manuscript Collection: 50 Yemenite Treasures in Our Midst.” Gary Rendsburg holds the Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History at Rutgers University, with appointments in both the Department of History and the Department of Jewish Studies. He is the author of seven books and over 200 articles; his most recent book is How the Bible Is Written...

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Arab-Israeli Journalist Lucy Aharish

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April 2, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Academic Building Room 2160, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 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 against racism in Israeli Society

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

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March 25, 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Rutgers Hillel, 70 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ United States

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 spoke with Rutgers faculty and staff about their experiences.

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Lecture by Aaron David Miller: “Gulliver’s Troubles: America in the Middle East”

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March 20, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual

Guest lecture by Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy: “Gulliver’s Troubles: America in the Middle East.”

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JFAS meeting with Juli Wade, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick

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February 7, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual

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David Hirsh: “Does Antizionism Create a Hostile Environment on Campus for Jews?”

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December 6, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual

David Hirsh is a senior lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London; and academic cirector and CEO of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.

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

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November 30, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Rutgers Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, 08901 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 Service at Georgetown University. Professor Hoffman has written several books about terrorism including the classic Inside Terrorism and, with Jacob...

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