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  • Gill Hoffman, chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post visits UB
    9/5/25
    On April 16, 2018 in the Department of Jewish Thought’s Friedman Library at UB, Mr. Gil Hoffman, a well-established Israeli media expert, shared his experiences as a journalist conversant with key figures in Israeli and Palestinian political leadership. He highlighted the importance of knowing the Israeli politics from “within” and on these grounds argued that the notion of “foreign correspondent” in Israel is outdated. Rather, at the age of global communication, journalism must be local and done by those with intimate knowledge of the constantly fluent and changing "now" of the political life, he argued.
  • David Blitzer Lecture series a success
    9/5/25
    Along with the large community and student turn out, the department was particularly pleased to welcome Ms. Helena Schwartz, Ms. Cheryl Stein and Mr. Irving Stein of the Blitzer family.
  • New book by Professor Sergey Dolgopolski
    9/5/25
    The question of the political for the excluded others, or for those who programmatically do not claim any “original” belonging to a particular territory comes at the forefront of analysis in the book. "Other Others" approaches this question by moving from a modern political figure of “Jew” as such an “other other” to the late ancient texts of the Talmud.
  • Professor Alex Green interviews Rabbi Sacks
    9/5/25
    For the September issue of "The Jewish Journal," Professor Alex Green interviewed Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth.
  • Professor Richard Cohen receives prestigious NEH grant
    9/5/25
    The 2017 summer seminar “Emmanuel Levinas on Morality, Justice, and the Political” is the fifth in a series presented by Professor Richard A. Cohen of UB's Department of Jewish Thought, but the first funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

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