Faculty Working Groups
Faculty Working Groups bring together faculty in a wide range of disciplines to serve as think tanks and to create community, leading to publication projects, academic and public programming. These groups, drawn together across our campuses, are increasingly taking the lead in the development of CIS programming. Current active groups include:
History of Zionism in Israel
Chair: Jess Olson (Jewish History). Members: Rachel Mesch (French), Evan Resnick (Political Science), Joan Mazalis (Sociology), Josh Karlip (Jewish History).
Events:
Ronald Zwieg, NYU, The Palestinian Refugee Issue in American-Israeli Relations till 1967
Derek Penselar, University of Toronto, The Jewish Origins of the Israeli Army
International Conference:
Zionism on the Jewish Street: Geography and Nationalism at the Turn of the 20th Century. With YU Museum. Organizer: Jess Olson (Jewish History), companion web exhibition sponsored by the Center for Online Judaic Studies. March, 2010.
Israel and International Relations
Evan Resnick (Political Science), Ruth Bevan (Political Science), Daniel Tsadik (Jewish History).
International Conferences:
Jews and Power in the 20th Century, with the Schottenstein Honor’s Program and the Schneier Center for International Affairs, Yeshiva University. Primary faculty advisors: S. Fine, R. Bevan. Spring, 2009.
US-Israel Relations in the Era of Obama and Netanyahu, with the Began-Sadat Center , Bar Ilan University and American Friends of BIU. Organizers: R. Bevan, E. Resnick. Sept, 15, 2009.
Israel and Iran: From Cyrus the Great to the Islamic Republic. Organizer: Daniel Tsadik. With the Schneir Center for International Affairs, Yeshiva University. September, 2010.
Art and the Israeli Experience
Chair: Norman Adler (University Professor, Psychology)
Events:
Lecture by Shulamit Laderman, Bar Ilan University, The Hebrew Alphabet in Jewish and Israeli Art. Stern College, Fall 2009.
Student Photography Contest, associated with the Student Arts Festival. Spring 2009 and 2010.
Religious Zionist Thought
Chair: Shalom Carmy, (Jewish Thought)
Cos-ponsorship with the Yeshiva University Center for Ethics: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University: "Religious Identity as a Challenge to Modern Politics." Yeshiva College, Spring 2009.
Science in Israel
Chair: Carl Feit (Biology).
International Conferences:
Torah and Science Conference. With Bar Ilan and Machon Lev. Apr 2009, 2010, 2011. Hosted at the YUI campus, 2010.
Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity
Chairs: Steven Fine (Jewish History), Yakov Elman (Jewish History)
Events:
Symposium on Priesthood in the Second Temple Period, 11/11/09. Organizer: Joseph Angel (Jewish History).
International Conferences:
Talmuda De'Eretz Yisrael: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antiquity. Organizers: Steven Fine (Jewish History), Aaron Koller (Bible). With YU Museum. At the YU Museum, March 2011.