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Session 5
June 24, 2025
Headlines & Nakba
Begins with Slide 89
Open Forum: Israel-Iran
Intro to Nakba Narratives
Identities Transcending Facts
​What We Do (Next)

Session 4
May 27, 2025
Antisemitism & Counter-Xenophobia
Begins with Slide 64
Bret Stephens Presentation
"Is This Antisemitic?"
Tropes: Power and Belonging
Psycho-Spirituality of Antisemitism
Counter-Xenophobia in Jewish Spirituality

Session 3
May 13, 2025
​The Spiritual Stakes
Begins with Slide 36
The Jewish Trauma Toolkit 
More on Dynamic Pluralism
Truth, Peace and Empathy
The West Bank Barrier

Session 2
April 29, 2025
Zionism and Discursive Pluralism
Begins with Slide 22
Yom HaZikaron and Meta-Framing
Labels: "Zionism" and "Anti-Zionism"
Zionism 101: Haskalah to Basel Program
Nationalism and Category Shift

Session 1
April 15, 2025
Introduction: Who Are We?
Begins with Slide 1
On Yearning: From Avram to Shoah
Contours of Ethno-Religious-Spiritual Polity
Identity History: 1600 BCE - Modernity
Association, Exile and Home Again

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