PUBLIC EVENTS
Report on the Ground with Times of Israel Senior Analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Webinar Series)
Haviv Rettig Gur, Times of Israel Senior Analyst
Kenneth Bamberger, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law
Session I: Social and Political Upheaval in Israel
Septembe 5
Session II: Emergency Briefing
October 18
Session III: Politics and Geopolitics of Wartime Israel
November 15
Session IV: Pressing Dilemmas in Wartime Israel
February 5
Israel and the Global Crisis of Liberalism
October 5
Amichai Magen, Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies, Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute
Ron Hassner, Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies
Trauma: A Conversation with Israeli Author and Psychologist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
October 23
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Israeli Author and Psychologist
Deena Aranoff, Director, Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union
Reporting in a Time of War: A Conversation with New York Times Jerusalem Correspondent Isabel Kershner
November 1
Isabel Kershner, Correspondent in Jerusalem, New York Times
Janine Zacharia, Journalist; McClatchy Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University
Geopolitics, Military Strategy, and the Israel-Hamas War
November 7
Ehud Eiran, Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science, University of Haifa
Ron Hassner, Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies
Do They Really Belong? Modern Israeli "Tribes" and the Dilemma of Ex-Soviet Israelis
November 14
Larissa Remennick, Fall 2023 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute
Rebecca Golbert, Executive Director, Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
Iran and Israel: Strategic Vision and Goals
The Annual Libitzky Lecture on Israel and the Great Powers
February 20
Abbas Milani, The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford University
Ron Hassner, Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies; Faculty Co-Director, Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley
The Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on the Arab-Palestinian Community in Israel and Implications for Shared Society (Webinar Series)
Part I: A Legal Perspective
March 11
Manal Totry-Jubran, Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Masua Sagiv, 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute
Part II: A Civic-Educational Perspective
April 15
Ayman Agbaria, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Department of Leadership and Policy in Education, University of Haifa
Masua Sagiv, 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute
Consolidation and Rifts in Current Israeli Society: New Findings from the Israeli Consensus Index
March 19
Ori Aronson, Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Julia Elad-Strenger, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Shahar Lifshitz, Founder, Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law; Professor of Law, Former Dean, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law
Tzili Elitzur Nae, Public Policy Director, Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Masua Sagiv (Moderator), 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute
Israel before International Law Mechanisms
April 1
Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Former Dean, Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Former Member, Chair, UN Human Rights Committee
Elena Chachko (Moderator), Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Our Golden Age: American Judaism, In Transition
Annual Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
April 3
Yehuda Kurtzer, President, Shalom Hartman Institute
Examining the Pursuit of Justice and Recognition for the Victims of the Sexual Violence Committed by Hamas on October 7th
April 11
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Professor of Law, Founding Academic Director, Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law; Former Vice-Chair, UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Masua Sagiv (Moderator), 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Scholar-in-Residence, Shalom Hartman Institute
Debates over Zionism and the Future of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
April 15
Yossi Klein Halevi, Author; Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Ethan Katz (Moderator), Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies; Faculty Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley
FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT EVENTS
HDI Visiting Israeli Faculty Forum
September 6
Shirlee Lichtman Sadot, 2023–2024 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute
Eran Kaplan, Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor
Larissa Remennick, Fall 2023 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute
Masua Sagiv, 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute
Daniel Levy, Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor
Jewish Law Student Association at Berkeley Law (JSABL) & Helen Diller Institute Happy Hour
September 7
Helen Diller Institute Welcome Back Reception
September 11
Lunch and Learn with Gideon Aran
September 19
Gideon Aran, Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University
Ultra-Orthodox Death Rituals at Sites of Terrorism
September 20
Gideon Aran, Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University
In Person Visiting Faculty Debriefs with Students in the Wake of October 7
In partnership with Berkeley Hillel
October 10: Ron Hassner, Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies
October 11: Eran Kaplan, Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor
October 11:
Masua Sagiv, 2021–2024 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at
the Helen Diller Institute
Daniel Levy, Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor
Hanan Alexander, 2022–2024 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute
Israel Debrief with JSABL Students
October 12
Kenneth Bamberger, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law
Choosing Your Destiny: How Decisions We Make Early in Our Lives Echo Through Our Years
October 27
Daniel Levy, Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor
The Impact of the 1991 Gulf War on the Nuclear Dimension of US-Israel Relations
February 12
Ori Rabinowitz, Visiting Scholar, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
HDI x Hillel Hummusiya with Professor Masua Sagiv: The ICJ and Israel
February 13
Student Lunch with Abbas Milani
February 20
Abbas Milani, The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford University
Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Elhanan Miller
March 4
Rabbi Elhanan Miller, Founder, People of the Book
The Strength of Democratic Institutions and Economic Performance — Implications for Israel
March 18
Shirlee Lichtman Sadot, Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Senior Lecturer, Economics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Lunch and Learn with Moria Paz
March 20
Moria Paz, Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar
Workshop: Judaism in Private and Public
April 3
Yehuda Kurtzer, President, Shalom Hartman Institute
War and Reproduction: Posthumous Reproduction in Israel as a Case Study
April 8
Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or, Visiting Scholar; Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, Berkeley Law; Postdoctoral Fellow, Aharon Barak Center for Interdisciplinary Legal Research, Hebrew University Faculty of Law