For the third conversation in a three-part series, Nadav Eyal and Kenneth Bamberger will dive into the current state of affairs within Israeli politics and society and the most recent developments in Israel’s regional conflicts.  Nadav Eyal, Senior Columnist, Yediot Ahronot; Senior Commentator, Keshet 12; 2024–2025 Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School […]

Please join Nadav Eyal, leading Israeli journalist and current visiting professor at Columbia University, for an intimate student lunch. He will share his insights about domestic politics in Israel and […]

The issue of drafting Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) yeshiva students into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has long been at the heart of one of Israel’s most profound and enduring societal conflicts — one that dates back to the founding of the state. This controversy has only deepened in the wake of the most recent war that […]

Nana Ariel, writer and scholar at Tel Aviv University, will join Yael Segalovitz, visiting professor of comparative literature, for a conversation on the role of boredom in contemporary thought and childhood experience, especially in the context of prolonged confinement, whether due to Covid or life in shelters. Based in part on Nana’s children’s book and […]

Lawyers and philosophers think that reasons are the essence of practical rules, especially mandatory legal ones. Yet in the Jewish tradition, in which law is a central component, thinkers and lawyers from the late Middle Ages developed the idea that the reasons for the commandments are beyond human understanding. In this workshop, Professor Yair Lorberbaum […]

An online event featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority Nasser Al-Kidwa. Co-organized by: The UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law & Israel Studies at UC Berkeley Co-sponsored by: The UCLA Center for Middle East […]

David Horovitz, Editor-in-Chief of The Times of Israel will join Professor Ron Hassner (Helen Diller Institute Co-Faculty Director) for a follow-up conversation about the most pressing developments in Israeli politics and society in the context of the changing Middle East political landscape. As the editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, he will lend his editorial […]