08 Oct
Book Review, Fall 2024, literary moment

Book Review | Kiss Me, I’m Irish and Jewish!

The two million Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I had been preceded by smaller movements of Jews to America: in colonial times, hundreds of Sephardim who fled Inquisitions; later, tens of thousands of Central European, mostly German, Jews who came, saw and prospered phenomenally in the middle of the 19th century.

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01 Oct
Foreign Affairs Zoominars, Israel, Israel Zoominars, Israel-Hamas War, Israel-Hamas War Zoominars, Upcoming Zoominars, Zoominar Library, Zoominars

The Iran-Israel Face-Off with Roya Hakakian and Nadine Epstein

What’s really happening inside Iran and why has the government of the Islamic Republic hated Israel for the last 45 years? Is all-out war in the Middle East inevitable or can it be diffused, and if so, how? What do the Iranian people think of their own government and is there any chance that they can successfully topple their repressive government?

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01 Oct
Democracy & Civil Discourse Zoominars, Foreign Affairs Zoominars, Israel Zoominars, Latest, Zoominar Library, Zoominars

Jimmy Carter: The Great “Jewish” President with Stuart Eizenstat and Nadine Epstein

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxq70MVjf8?si=fd-OSQC1gwh6Ae-r] Jimmy Carter, who served as president from 1977-1981, had a complicated, and at times, contentious relationship with the Jewish community despite championing Soviet Jewry,...

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