The Thomas and Diann Mann Lecture Series on Jews, America and Israel
Professor Ken Stein in 2014 speaking on Iran and Isis and its effect on Israel
2016- BDS and the Middle East Conflict: A War Over Words
Photo: Professor David Caplin, OSU Student Tomer Elias, and Professor Donna Robinson Divine
Jewish Migration and Displacement: New Perspectives on Refuge from the Holocaust, New Perspectives on Israeli Migration Program
The Thomas and Diann Mann Lecture Series on Jews, America and Israel explores the special and complex relationship between Israel and America.
2014
Dr. Mitchell Bard, American Israel Enterprise Institute (AICE): “Israel on College Campuses: What Can We Learn from University of California?” (student workshop), and “The Arab Spring, Islamic Winter, and What It Means for Israel” (community lecture)
2015
Rabbi Reuben Firestone, PhD, “Understanding Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World.”
2016
Professor Donna Robinson Divine, Smith College, “BDS and the Middle East Conflict: A War Over Words.”
2017
Yaniv Sagee, Executive Director, Givat Haviva, Israel, Mohammad Darawshe, Director, Shared Society Education Department, Givat Haviva: "MODELS OF EQUALITY AND COEXISTENCE: The Pragmatic Search for a Shared Society of Israelis and Palestinians".
2017
Sarah Benor, Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion; Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California: "Hebrew Infusion: Israel, Judaism, and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps."
2019
Israeli novelist Ruby Namdar, "The Ruined House”
2021
New Perspectives on Israeli Migration
Session 1: New Perspectives on Refuge from the Holocaust
Moderator: Robin Judd, (The Ohio State University)
Panel: Marion Kaplan, (New York University), Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Mikhal Dekel, (City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Session 2: New Perspectives on Israeli Migration
Moderator: Naomi Brenner (The Ohio State University)
Panel: Rhona Seidelman, (The University of Oklahoma),
Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel's Gate
Ori Yehudai, (The Ohio State University):
Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
2021
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Amos Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bashir Bashir, Open University of Israel
2022
Blackness in Israel
Moderator: Ori Yehudai (The Ohio State University)
Panel: Uri Dorchin, (Behavioral Sciences Academic College, Zefat, Israel)
Gabriella Djerrahian (Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
2024
Rachel Harris (Florida Atlantic University), How the IDF Founded the Israeli Film Industry, Nov. 7, 2024
2025
Orit Rozin (Tel Aviv University), Israel at its finest hour: Emotional Management on the Eve of the 1967 War, February 27, 2025
Jonathan Gribetz (Princeton University), A Zionist Arab Conversation in Late Ottoman Jerusalem and Reading Herzl in Beirut, October 28, 2025
2026
Oz Frankel (New School for Social Research in New York City), Coca Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967 to 1973, March 5, 2026