WASHINGTON, DC (PRBuzz.com) August 23, 2012 -- The Louis D. Brandeis Center today released its path-breaking LDB Best Practices Guide for Combating Campus Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism.  The Brandeis Center is an international Jewish civil rights organization which combats anti-Semitism on college and university campuses.  The LDB Best Practices Guide provides...

  RAMAT GAN, Israel - For the past 30 years, Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen has been on a mission of biblical proportions: Correcting all known textual errors in Jewish scripture to produce a truly definitive edition of the Old Testament. His edits, focusing primarily on grammatical blemishes and an intricate set of biblical symbols, mark the first major overhaul of the Hebrew...

  The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan seeks a scholar of Sephardic Jewry (15th-19th centuries) with strong interdisciplinary commitments. Specialization is open: history, religious studies, literature, anthropology, material culture, music, or gender studies. This scholar will participate in a cluster hire devoted to the Mediterranean as a dynamic arena of...

  Call for Papers for two Conferences to be held in Shanghai, China June 2012 Conference I Israeli Studies in China Introducing One Ancient Civilization to Another   Thursday-Friday, 21-22 June 2012 ShanghaiInternational Studies University(SHISU)   Conference II Future History Civil Society vs. State from a Traditional and Modern Perspective   Sunday-Monday, 24-25 June 2012 Fudan...

  Are there plans for Peaceful Israel/Palestine that Israelis and Palestinians really prefer over remaining in the current situation? The BEST PLANS project will present a wide uncensored variety of plans for progressing beyond the current situation to politically representative samples of Israelis and Palestinians ("customers" of the plans). Participants will carry out a deep...