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Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies

ברוכים הבאים למרכז ללימודי ישראל

 

 

We stand with the State of Israel - in all of its amazing complexity - at this moment of crisis and pain, of loss and true courage. Our hearts are with our captives, the injured and all who are mourning. איתכם לכל הדרך

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About

The YU Center for Israel Studies is the voice of academic Israel area studies at Yeshiva University. 

CIS is a bridge between America and Israel--not the Israel of cable news and slogans, but the real and vital and invigorating State of Israel. 

The YU Center for Israel Studies is a place to come together and explore the Old-New Land (Herzl’s phrase)-- Eretz Yisrael from Abraham to Zionism.

Our area studies approach to Israel, its land and peoples, builds on the strengths and interests of Yeshiva University’s rich faculty, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, YU Israel, YU Museum and the Gottesman Library to explore Israel in all of its complexity

Never has our work been more important. This website presents our work and mission, our projects and successes over our history.

Join us!

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Projects and Programs

CIS programs encompass Israel in all of its amazing complexity. Each of our projects and events brings together faculty, students, and experts from around the world to focus on important issues in the study of Eretz Israel from biblical times to the present.

Our projects include:
* The YU Israelite Samaritan Project
* Talmud on the Israeli Street
* The Arch of Titus Project

Projects especially for YU Students
* Archaeology in Israel
* The Sanhedrin Trail
* The Glatt and Charney Student Internship Program

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Projects and Programs

CIS programs encompass Israel in all of its amazing complexity. Each of our projects and events brings together faculty, students, and experts from around the world to focus on important issues in the study of Eretz Israel from biblical times to the present.

Our projects include:
* The YU Israelite Samaritan Project
* Talmud on the Israeli Street
* The Arch of Titus Project

Projects especially for YU Students
* Archaeology in Israel
* The Sanhedrin Trail
* The Glatt and Charney Student Internship Program

The Exhibit is now open in Germany!

Germany

We are happy to announce that there will be another screening of the Samaritans documentary on January 23!

Here is the link to purchase tickets for the upcoming screening at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.

https://begincenter.smarticket.co.il/%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%A8...

 

 

The Samaritans: A Biblical People - The Museum of the Bible

Exhibition

Learn more about the Samaritans and the exhibition here!

Our Israel premiere is upon us, Dec. 18, evening! Tickets are selling fast, If you want tickets, buy them today! Our special YU discount code is 7676.

See you soon in Jerusalem!

השומרונים: עדה. תורה. הר.

Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israel Film Archive

https://jer-cin.org.il/he/movie/60742 

By popular demand! A second showing of -The Samaritans: A Biblical People- has been scheduled for Wed., December 21 at 9:00 PM.

Seating is limited. If you want tickets, buy them today! See you soon in Jerusalem!

השומרונים: עדה. תורה. הר.

Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israel Film Archive

https://jer-cin.org.il/he/movie/60742

 

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Join us for the US Premiere, Other Israel Festival, NYC, Nov 8 in person or livestream (Nov 3-13):

https://otherisrael2022.eventive.org/films/63220460e8a1aa0089935304

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Please join us for a seminar offered by Rabbi Nachman Levine, a current CIS Leon Charney Fellow.  Rabbi Levine us a scholar of Aggadah within its literary, historical and material contexts.  He has published in journals ranging from Moed to the Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Jewish Studies Internet Journal, and Hakirah.

 

As a Charney Fellow, Rabbi Levine is preparing a volume of studies in Aggadic literature.  Together with Prof. Steven Fine, Rabbi Levine is preparing a popular volume on Hazal and Archaeology.

If you would like to attend, please email steven.fine@yu.edu for a zoom link!

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Leon Charney Book Award (2021) Presentation

Crisis and Hope: YU Voices

Yahdutenu: The Story of Ethiopian Jewry and their Heritage

Tel Aviv Review

The Tel Aviv Review is the premier podcast for in-depth, long-form interviews with scholars, writers and thinkers about their work and ideas that make up the debate in and about Israel.

Gilad Halpern, host of the Tel Aviv Review, will be on campus to record conversations with YU authors about their recent books! The interviews will be done in the context of ongoing classes at YU. 

Tuesday, Feb. 25. 2020
In conversation with Jess Olson on Jewish Culture: A Quick Immersion 

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020
In conversation with Rachel Mesch on Gender, Literature and Identity 

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
A conversation with journalists Sivan Rahav-Meir and Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt on Media and Religion: Israel and the Diaspora
The 2020 Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule of Law. 

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
A roundtable with authors Joseph Angel, Steven Fine, Jess Olson and Ronnie Perelis on Jewish Religious Architecture 
 

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
In conversation with Ronnie Perelis on Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic

https://tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv-review/2020/04/13/the-crypto-jews-of-the-m…

A partnership of the YU Center for Israel Studies and the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs 

International Conference

Philistines!
Rehabilitating a Biblical Foe

Sunday, November 17, 2019
Yeshiva University Museum
Co-sponsored by the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.


Led by Dr. Jill Katz (Sociology and Archaeology), we will again  participate in the archaeological excavations at biblical Gath. Our students will join an international team organized by Bar-Ilan University. 

The Leon Charney Fellowship for Archaeological Research is available to YU undergraduate and graduate students on a competitive basis. Fellowships are made possible by the Leon Charney Legacy Fund of the Center for Israel Studies.  Contact Dr. Katz for details.

The CIS is offering supplementary funding for YU faculty, professional staff, CIS Charney Fellows and graduate students who plan to present papers at the Association for Israel Studies conference at Kinneret College, June 24-26.  

With thanks to the Leon Charney Legacy Fund of the CIS, we will provide $1500-2000 (depending on need and availability of funds), beyond regular funding provided by your department or another source.  

In addition, we are planning a full day excursion to visit sites of mutual interest in the Kinneret region, and you are invited to join our YU student excavators at biblical Gath while in Israel.  All who will be in Israel are welcome to join our fieldtrip.  More specifics anon.


YU Receives $1M Gift for Program on “Israel and the Rule of Law”

Bequest From Dr. Joseph and Faye Glatt Estate Will Support Innovative Programming at Center for Israel Studies

Yeshiva University has received a bequest of $1 million from the Dr. Joseph and Faye Glatt Estate to create a new program housed in the Center for Israel Studies (CIS), titled The Joseph and Faye Glatt Program on “Israel and the Rule of Law.” 

Dr. Alexander Kaye for The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel (2020). See more

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