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The Lebanon-Israel Border
May 23, 2023
IDF Brigadier General Moshe “Chiko” Tamir delivers a situational briefing to U.S. Army officers who traveled to the Israel-Lebanon border for MirYam’s annual Israel Strategy & Policy Tour for Active Officers.
The MirYam Institute Security Briefing
July 20, 2023
Yossi Cohen (former Head of Mossad), and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster (former U.S. National Security Advisor) discuss Israel-U.S. security collaboration and cooperation and more with Benjamin Anthony at the MirYam Institute International Security Briefing
Israel-Hamas War: Stories from the Frontlines
October 15, 2023
Survivors of the Hamas attacks describe their experiences
Rabbi on the Sidelines: Jeffrey Gurock
December 14, 2023
Rabbi Sherman speaks with Jewish history scholar and JBS favorite Jeffrey S. Gurock about how the sports experience can be used to understand contemporary American Jewish life.
The Great Rewiring: Jonathan Haidt
January 11, 2024
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt speaks about the current technological landscape, how phone-based childhood has impacted Gen Z, and how parents and schools can partner to protect them.
Fighting Antisemitism: The Story of a Jew from Libya
March 29, 2024
In a discussion of forgotten refugees of the Arab-Israeli conflict, ISGAP Vice Chair David Harris is joined by his wife Giulietta Boukhobza (scholar and author), who shares her family’s story of their harrowing escape from Libya.
Jewish Cinémathèque: Between the Temples
September 19, 2024
Eric Goldman is joined by filmmaker Nathan Silver to discuss his ninth feature, “Between the Temples,” starring Jason Schwartzman as a cantor facing a crisis of faith when his former music teacher returns as an adult bat mitzvah student.
Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP, Natan Sharansky, Chairman, ISGAP and Michal Cotler-Wunsh Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, Israel, offer opening remarks during the annual ISGAP-Oxford Oxford Summer Institute
Rabbi Hirsch: On the Character of Man
November 19, 2024
Rabbi Ammi Hirsch reflects on humanity’s paradox of high self-image versus our capacity for harm, emphasizing for his congregation in this election moment: “We are not destined for evil; we have the ability to choose.”
Fighting Antisemitism: Naya Lekht “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Jew?”
January 15, 2025
Educator, author and scholar on contemporary antisemitism, Naya Lekht, lectures on lies taught about Israel and Jews in a talk entitled “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Jew?”