As a longtime professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history as well as an Iranian Jew, I wasn’t surprised certain Middle Eastern ethnicities are completely absent from the draft California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.
Jewish Insider National Politics Reporter Jacob Kornbluh has spent months reporting on violations of COVID-19 restrictions in New York’s ultra-Orthodox communities. On October 7th, Kornbluh, a Borough Park resident, was attacked while reporting on anti-lockdown protests in his own neighborhood.
Join us for a conversation with Matthew Levitt, Director of the Washington Institute's Counter Terrorism & Intelligence Program, on his recently launched "Hezbollah Worldwide Activity Map," the largest database of open-source information about Hezbollah's illicit activities worldwide.
Halie Soifer, Executive Director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, and Matt Brooks, Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition join AJC to examine trends related to the Jewish vote in 2020 and debate the issues of importance to American Jews.