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Upcoming Events

Book Cover Songs For The Broken Hearted
October 23, 2025

Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari

Event Start Time: 4:00 pm
Event Location: 165 Thompson Library
Ayelet Tsabari Profile Photo, leaning against a wall
October 24, 2025

Writing, Belonging, and Diaspora: A Workshop with Ayelet Tsabari

Event Start Time: 11:00 am
Event Location: E040 Scott Lab, 201 W. 19th Avenue
Jonathan Gribetz
October 28, 2025

A Zionist-Arab Conversation in Late Ottoman Jerusalem

Event Start Time: 9:35 am
Event Location: 1810 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210, in 060 Page Hall,
Book Cover of Reading Herzl in Beirut - The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy
October 28, 2025

Reading Herzl in Beirut

Event Start Time: 12:45 pm
Event Location: 251 Journalism Building, 242 W. 18 Avenue

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Melton Center for Jewish Studies

New Forum for Research and Dialogue Around Middle Eastern Communities

Announcing a new forum for research and dialogue around communities in the Middle East!

The Directors of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Middle East Studies Center, partnering…

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Job Opening: Community Outreach Representative - Melton Center for Jewish Studies

Click on the following link for more information:

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Professor Ori Yehudai

Professor Ori Yehudai Interviewed on Ceasefire

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Ori Yehudai Interviewed About the War in the Middle East

By Lori Botnick Fireman

Ori Yehudai, Associate Professor of History and the Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies at Ohio State was recently interviewed by NBC4 about the war in the Middle East.

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