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Mr. Yaakov Hagoel, Welcomes You to
SSI’s 6th National Conference!

REPLAY: The Jews of London

Connecting You to Israel Every Day

Hello valdasvaldas,

If you missed today’s program: The Jews of London, we’ve recorded it for you. This recording is available for one week only.

This morning the BZD and tour guide Ian Fagelson headed on a journey through the streets and alleys of London to discover the thousand-year history of the Jews in England. From the arrival of a Jewish community from Normandy in 1066/67 to the Kindertransport children of 1938/39, Jews have played essential roles in the unfolding drama of British history.

We are thrilled to bring you programs like this, every Tuesday morning! Please join our End-Of-Year Virtual Fundraiser, happening now through June 30th. Consider a donation of any amount to help the BZD bring more virtual programs and events just like this one back in the fall of 2022 / 2023: DONATE HERE

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FOLLOW UP NOTES FROM TODAY’S PROGRAM

Tripadvisor:

My ability to sell tours and raise funds for charity is helped by my profile on Tripadvisor where I am currently ranked at #1 out of more than 1500 tours in London on the strength of over 400 reviews. If you are among those kind reviewers, please accept my thanks. If you haven’t posted a review, please think about doing so (for a review to be published, the reviewer must be signed into an account at Facebook, Google or Tripadvisor itself at the time of posting). Here’s the link Ian Fagelson Tripadvisor Reviews.

British Jews in WW1

In my “speed dating session” with the alumni of the Bevis Marks synagogue, I talked about Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first Jew to be awarded the Victoria Cross, this country’s highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. I can confirm that he was born in London and was among 50,000 Jews who served in British and colonial forces during World War I. Their story is told in a remarkable book entitled British Jewry Book of Honour published in 1922. It has now been beautifully digitized and you can browse it here British Jewry Book of Honour.

 

Shylock

This link will take you to my Shylock Compilation Video. Given the relevance of ethnicity to this role, I have listed below the name and nationality/ethnicity of each actor in order of appearance:

 

1. Makram Khoury (Israeli Palestinian)

2. Al Pacino (Italian American)

3. Jacob Cohen (Israeli Jewish)

4. Jonathan Pryce (British Welsh)

5. Bob Peck (British English)

 

Further Reading

If you’d like to read more about some of the stories I touched upon during the tour, here’s a selection to get you started:

 

History Extra – The Jews of medieval England

 

Bevis Marks Synagogue website

 

Patricia Skinner (ed) Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012)

 

Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews, Volume 1, Finding the Words: 1000BCE-1492CE (London: The Bodley Head, 2013)

 

Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora: a History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

 

Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485–1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001)

 

A. Weiner, “A Note on Jewish Doctors in England in the Reign of Henry IV” The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 18, No. 1 (Oct., 1905), pp. 141-145

 

Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink (a novel set during the resettlement period)

(San Francisco: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)Tripadvisor

My ability to sell tours and raise funds for charity is helped by my profile on Tripadvisor where I am currently ranked at #1 out of more than 1500 tours in London on the strength of over 400 reviews. If you are among those kind reviewers, please accept my thanks. If you haven’t posted a review, please think about doing so (for a review to be published, the reviewer must be signed into an account at Facebook, Google or Tripadvisor itself at the time of posting). Here’s the link Ian Fagelson Tripadvisor Reviews.

British Jews in WW1

In my “speed dating session” with the alumni of the Bevis Marks synagogue, I talked about Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first Jew to be awarded the Victoria Cross, this country’s highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. I can confirm that he was born in London and was among 50,000 Jews who served in British and colonial forces during World War I. Their story is told in a remarkable book entitled British Jewry Book of Honour published in 1922. It has now been beautifully digitized and you can browse it here British Jewry Book of Honour.

 

Shylock

This link will take you to my Shylock Compilation Video. Given the relevance of ethnicity to this role, I have listed below the name and nationality/ethnicity of each actor in order of appearance:

 

1. Makram Khoury (Israeli Palestinian)

2. Al Pacino (Italian American)

3. Jacob Cohen (Israeli Jewish)

4. Jonathan Pryce (British Welsh)

5. Bob Peck (British English)

 

Further Reading

If you’d like to read more about some of the stories I touched upon during the tour, here’s a selection to get you started:

 

History Extra – The Jews of medieval England

 

Bevis Marks Synagogue website

 

Patricia Skinner (ed) Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012)

 

Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews, Volume 1, Finding the Words: 1000BCE-1492CE (London: The Bodley Head, 2013)

 

Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora: a History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

 

Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485–1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001)

 

A. Weiner, “A Note on Jewish Doctors in England in the Reign of Henry IV” The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 18, No. 1 (Oct., 1905), pp. 141-145

 

Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink (a novel set during the resettlement period) (San Francisco: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

Kindertransport documentary

Sir Erich Reich (The Boy in the Statue)

The Windermere Children Movie

The Windermere Children (documentary)

Dr. Mordechai Kedar, in person and live-stream–Presenting: Israel’s Internal Conflicts

CAEF and Adath Israel Congregation in collaboration with Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights invite to you a hybrid event with Dr. Mordechai Kedar on the Internal Conflicts In Israel. For those of you in or near Toronto, please join us for the inperson event at Adath Israel on June 22, 2022. if you are unable to join us there, you are also invited to watch online via livestream.
Dr. Kedar is an Israeli scholar of Arab language and culture and lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, and the Director/Research Associate of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He is one of Israel’s leading figures in understanding the Arab world.  Lt. Col. (res) Dr. Kedar is a founding member of Habithonistim, the Israel Defense and Security Forum.

Dr. Kedar will share the troubling results of a recently released study conducted by Habithonistim, which revealed that three-quarters of Arab Israelis believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in the country.

Hear about the survey, actions being undertaken by Habithonistim to educate Israelis about Jewish history and Zionist pride, especially within the educational system. Hear about the internal Israeli conflicts; the Arab population’s own conflicts, and how this is impacting relations with the Jewish diaspora.

Learn what diaspora Jews can do, and how to support Israel, educate our own, and improve societal understanding of the truth and Israel’s rights.

TOMORROW! The Moral & Strategic Failure of Ignoring the Protests in Iran

Upcoming Webinar

In at least 40 cities and towns throughout much of Iran, thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest a government they deeply despise and distrust. Yet, there is hardly any mention in the media about it, and even less from the Biden administration.

This latest round of protests began shortly after May 3rd, when the government announced its intention to remove its subsidy of flour that had been in place for over 200 years.  The Iranian government had been relying on a Ukrainian supply of wheat, which had threatened the supply chain and global prices, but because of a pervasive atmosphere of total corruption and mismanagement, Iranians took to the streets to demonstrate. On top of that, a building collapsed last week, killing dozens of people and trapping more than 80 under the rubble.

What began as a purely economic protest has morphed into a great protest against the Iranian regime, with shouts of “We do not hate America; we hate the regime. Down with the regime! Death to Khameini!” These people have demonstrated phenomenal courage. The Basij, as well various IRGC militias have randomly shot and killed many of the demonstrations. Others have been rounded up, arrested and tortured, and carted off to the notorious Evin prison, sometimes never to be seen from or heard from again. Yet, the valiant demonstrators continue.

Where is the Western media about this? Why no word from the White House.

We are profoundly honored to have with us Navid Mohebbi, a policy fellow from the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI).

About the speaker: Navid is a former Iranian political prisoner and long-time political activist. In 2010, Mohebbi was arrested by the Islamic Republic in Iran and recognized by the Committee to Protect Journalists as the youngest jailed journalist in the country.

Navid was born and raised in Iran. Before coming to the US in 2013, he lived in Turkey for two years. He holds a BA in international relations and Middle Eastern studies from George Washington University and previously worked as a Persian media analyst for the State Department. He also recently completed a DOD-funded fellowship program in which he researched the impact of climate change on political stability in Iran.

Starting in One Hour: Simon K. Li, “Nazi Imagery in East Asia: Hate, Ignorance, or Both?

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The ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute, Pembroke College, Oxford, scheduled for Sunday, August 7, through Friday, August 19, 2022, is now seeking Scholars-in-Residence for an intensive two-week workshop-based curriculum development program in interdisciplinary critical contemporary antisemitism studies. The program is dedicated to the development of antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline.

The program is intended primarily for professors with full-time college or university positions, though exceptional faculty, doctoral and post-doctoral students will be considered. Under the guidance of leading international academics, Scholars-in-Residence will be required to develop a course syllabus and curriculum in the interdisciplinary study of critical contemporary antisemitism. The course syllabus and curriculum is to be taught at the Scholar-in-Residence’s home university for course credit, on at least two occasions, upon completion of the program.

ISGAP also has limited space for graduate and undergraduate university students with strong academic credentials, proven leadership skills, and commitment. Successful applicants will qualify as Elie Wiesel – Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars, who will work on student-led projects to help combat antisemitism and racism on campus.

LECTURERS AT THE SUMMER INSTITUTE INCLUDE

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.
Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP
Dr. Ramy Aziz, Director, Middle East Programme, ISGAP
Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Joseph and Esther Foster Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, U.S.A.
Dr. Ellen Cannon, Political Science and Jewish Studies Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A.
Dr. Phyllis Chesler, Department of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University, New York, U.S.A.
The Honourable Professor Irwin Cotler, Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ottawa, Canada
Professor Miriam Elman, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, U.S.A.; Executive Director, Academic Engagement Network, U.S.A.
Dr. R. Amy Elman, William Weber Chair of Social Science, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, U.S.A.
Professor Rosa Freedman, Department of Law and Global Development, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
Ben M. Freeman, Author, Jewish Pride, London, U.K.
Katya Gibel Mevorach, Professor, American Studies Concentration, Grinnel College, Grinnel, U.S.A.
Professor Benny Morris, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
Professor William Kolbrener, Department, of English and Literature, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Dr. Joel Kotek, Department of Political Science, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Dina Lisnyansky, Department of the Middle East and Political Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Professor Cary Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP, U.S.A.
Professor David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, U.S.A.
Professor Uzi Rabi, Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Haras Rafiq, Interim Managing Director, ISGAP, Cambridge, U.K.
Benjamin Weinthal, Research Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Israel


All scholars that are accepted to the program are expected to be present for the entire duration of the Summer Institute and attend all seminars and meetings. The tuition fee for the two-week in-person programme is $850 USD. Applicants may also apply for scholarships.

General questions? Please contact Daphne Klajman, Research and Programming Coordinator, at daphne.klajman@isgap.org

To apply for the Summer Institute click here
ISGAP is pleased to announce a groundbreaking international conference on critical contemporary antisemitism studies to take place at Cambridge University. In the contemporary context of globalised relations, it appears that the oldest and most complex forms of hatred, antisemitism, has taken on new and changing forms that need to be decoded, mapped and critiqued. Given the recent rise of manifestations of antisemitism globally, this interdisciplinary conference is timely and imperative. The continual minimal response by academia and the human rights community to the onslaught of antisemitism points to a growing crisis of modernity, which impacts democratic principles, notions of citizenship, and human rights. Antisemitism is also an indicator of the growth of other forms of prejudice, racism(s), sexism, gendered relations, xenophobia and discrimination.

Following the largest-ever academic conference on the study of antisemitism (at Yale University in August 2010), this conference aims to explore this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary approach and advance knowledge and understanding of the origins and manifestations of antisemitism.

The conference is open to scholars, intellectuals, and policy experts, engaged in the study of contemporary antisemitism globally, and related topics, regardless of school of thought, scientific approach, academic discipline or ideological view.

The international conference will be held at Cambridge from 31 July to 2 August 2022, in conjunction with The Woolf Institute. The registration fee is £300 pounds for in-person attendance, including accommodations and half board. £150 pounds for the virtual programme, £75 for students in the virtual programme.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE INCLUDE

Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, CEO and Founder, TRENDS Research and Advisory, Dubai, U.A.E.
Dr. Najat Al-Saied, Professor, College of Media and Mass Communication, American Univerisity in the Emirates, Dubai, U.A.E.
Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Joseph and Esther Foster Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, U.S.A.
Professor Judit Bokser Liwerant, Department of Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), City of Mexico, Mexico
Dr. Ellen Cannon, Political Science and Jewish Studies Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A.
Professor Phyllis Chesler, Department of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University, New York, U.S.A.
The Honourable Professor Irwin Cotler, Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ottawa, Canada
Professor Rosa Freedman, Department of Law and Global Development, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
Ben M. Freeman, Author, Jewish Pride, London, U.K.
Professor Benny Morris, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
Haras Rafiq, Interim Managing Director, ISGAP, Cambridge, U.K.
Professor Yossi Shain, Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; Member of Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel
Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP, Israel
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.
Elder of Ziyon, Award-Winning Author and Activist, U.S.A.

WITH FEATURED PAPERS FROM

Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Assistant Professor, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. Holly Hamby, Chair of Humanities, Fisk University, Nashville, U.S.A.
Dr. Joel Kotek, Department of Political Science, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Naya Lekht, Director of Education, Club Z, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Professor David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, U.S.A.
Eran Shayshon, CEO, The Reut Group, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dr. Michal Vasecka, Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia


General questions? Please contact Daphne Klajman, Research and Programming Coordinator, at daphne.klajman@isgap.org

Shavuot: Torah, Temple and Israel | CAEF Bulletin – June 3, 2022

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What is Shavuot, and Its Meaning Today

“Shavuot commemorates the moment in history when we Jews were assigned to be the agents of bringing ethical monotheism into the world. Whenever we recite the Aleynu prayer, we praise G-d for giving us this assignment, but also pray that eventually all humanity will accept those tenets for which we are supposed to be the ‘walking commercials’.”

Rather than work to remove from the public sphere the Voice that spoke at Sinai and reverberated throughout the world, we Jews are called, along with other G-d-fearing people, to amplify it and make it reverberate again however and whenever we can. If we don’t, the world will ultimately become deaf. And… if we truly are called to be “a light to the nations”, then our failure will mean the world also sinking into moral darkness. At the end of the day, G-d says to us: “You are my witnesses…I’m depending on you.” As always: It’s time for the chosen ones to choose.

Excerpts from Shavuot in the Shadow of Uvalde by Rabbi Cary Kozberg in The Blogs, in the Times of Israel.  (Cary Kozberg has served in congregations, Hillel, and health care chaplaincy. He is currently rabbi of Temple Sholom in Springfield, Ohio)

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Israel Forever Shares Shavuot Recipes

Traditionally, Jews eat dairy products on Shavuot. For exciting recipes with an Israeli twist, read here.

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