Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
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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

Wednesday, April 17, 12pm
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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Thursday, February 22, 6pm
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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