The Makom Salon / מקום בסלון
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Season 2 – Online Events, 2021
Israel Education: The Next Edge – Illuminating the Future of Israel Engagement
Conversation 1: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST/ 6 pm GMT/ 8 pm Israel
With guests:
Jonny Ariel
Education Connoisseur
Lauren Fisher
Associate Director of Israel Education at Hillel International
Dr. Alex Pomson
Managing Director of Rosov Consulting
Hosted by
Abi Dauber Sterne
Executive Director of Makom
Place Matters: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Land
Conversation 2: Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST/ 6 pm GMT/ 8 pm Israel
With guests:
Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum
Co-founder of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, a joint project of the HaMidrasha Educational Center for Israeli Judaism and the Shalom Hartman Institute
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
Former faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the founding rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chayim, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Detroit, as well as the founding director of the Detroit National Center for Civil Discourse.
Hosted by
Jonny Ariel
Education connoisseur
The US and Us – America, Israel, and the Jews
Conversation 3: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST/ 6 pm GMT/ 8 pm Israel
With guests:
Dr. Einat Wilf
Co-author of “The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace” and a leading thinker on matters of foreign policy, economics, education, Israel and Zionism.
Prof. David Myers
The Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
Hosted by
Jonny Ariel
Education connoisseur
Love of Israel in the Time of Populism
Conversation 4: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST/ 6 pm GMT/ 8 pm Israel
With guests:
Pnina Agenyahu
Interfaces and Synergy Director at the Strategic and Planning Unit of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Prof. Jon Levisohn
Associate Professor of Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, where he directs the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
Hosted by
Jonny Ariel
education connoisseur
Feeling at Home in the Homeland
Conversation 5: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST/ 6 pm GMT/ 8 pm Israel
With guests:
Dr. Nisreen Shehada
Co-founder of Standing Together, a joint Jewish-Arab grassroots movement fighting to transform Israeli politics.
Hosted by
Rabbi Dr. Elliot J. Cosgrove
Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan.
Abi Dauber Sterne
Executive Director of Makom
Will the Real Me Please Stand Up? Journeys of Identity
Conversation 6: Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST/ 5 pm GMT/ 7 pm Israel
With guests:
Irina Nevzlin
Chair of the Board of Directors of ANU Museum of the Jewish People, President of NADAV Foundation, and the author of the book, The Impact of Identity - The Power of Knowing Who You Are.
Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, the first woman to lead the large Reform congregation in its 175-year history.
Hosted by
Abi Dauber Sterne
Executive Director of Makom
Season 1: The Makom Salon Podcast
Dr. Miri Shlissel
Head of Pedagogical Affairs, Israel's Ministry of Education
Dr. David Bryfman
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Jewish Education Project
CoronaZionism: Values, Ventilators and Repairing the World
Dyonna Ginsburg
Executive Director of Olam
Dr. Eitan Eliram
Co-Founder of Scout innovation
Hugging and Wrestling with Israel @72
Arnie Eisen
Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, (New York)
Fania Oz-Salzberger
Historian and writer, (Haifa)
Jeremy Leigh
Jerusalem
Rachel Fish
Boston
Interwoven: when the Universal meets the Jewish in a global crisis
Yuli Tamir
Tel Aviv
Deborah Lipstadt
Atlanta
Freedom and Safety: Pesach for Our People in this Time
Tehila N. Friedman
Jerusalem
