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The Hamas Attack and Israel’s Present War in Gaza

The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies is organizing a series of lectures and conversations bearing on the October 7th Hamas attack, Israeli responses, the Gaza war, the histories embedded in the crisis, and the effects and implications for Jewish and Palestinian inhabitants of the region and for Israeli society. The series will continue in the 2024-25 academic year.

Previous Talks in the Series

January 6, 2025
Lev Grinberg and Raef Zreik, "Israeli and Palestinian Society Now"

December 3, 2024
Leena Dallasheh and Nadeem Karkabi, "Palestinians In Israel Amid Ongoing War And Ethnic Cleansing"

November 14, 2024
Shayna Weiss, "Black Sabbaths: The Haredi Community After October 7"
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October 30, 2024
Dahlia Scheindlin, "Israel & Palestine: War, Forever War, Or Prospects For Peace?"
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October 7, 2024
Noa Barak and Roni Mikel-Arieli, "Grassroots Archives Of October 7th And Israeli Civic Memory"

April 17, 2024
Susannah Heschel, Eli Lederhendler, and Tony Michels, "The American Jewish Situation Since the October 7th Hamas Attack and the Gaza War"
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February 22, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "How Civil Society Saved and Will (Possibly) Destroy Israel: October 7 and the Future of Israel’s Democracy"
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February 7, 2024
Eva Illouz, "Israeli Society Since the October 7 Attack"
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November 27, 2023
Dahlia Scheindlin, "Israel, Palestine, War and Democracy"
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November 15, 2023
Arie Dubnov, "Gaza in the Israeli Imagination"
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October 25, 2023
Menachem Klein, “The Hamas Attack and Israel’s Present War in Gaza: Motivations, Strategies, Politics, Implications” 
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