Researchers

Mordechai Abir is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Professor (Emeritus) of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Saudi Arabia: Society, Government and the Gulf Crises (1993) and Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era: Regime and Elites: Conflict and Collaboration (1988).

Elliott Abrams is former Senior Director for the Near East on the U.S. National Security Council, and Deputy National Security Adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush Administration.

Khaled Abu Toameh is Palestinian Affairs correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. He has also served as a correspondent for US News and World Report. He has also produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC and other international networks.

Professor Jonathan Adelman is a professor of Russian and Chinese studies at the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver and an honorary professor at both Peking University and People's University in Beijing. The State Department has sponsored him for five speaking tours in China.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog is the former Commander of the IDF's Southern Command (2000-2003). Throughout his military career and during the course of four wars, Gen. Almog has gained extensive experience in combat and special clandestine operations in the ongoing war against terrorism. He participated in the Tripoli raid that targeted key terrorist leaders in February 1973, and in the Entebbe rescue operation in 1976.

Dr. Moses Altsech was born in Salonika, and has lived in the United States since 1987. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He has published and has lectured in many countries on the subjects of Greek Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and the Holocaust in Greece. He is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, program director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is former commander of the IDF's National Defense College and the IDF Staff and Command College. He is also former head of the IDF's Research and Assessment Division, with special responsibility for preparing the National Intelligence Assessment. In addition, he served as the military secretary of the defense minister.

Mark Ami-El has been responsible for editing and production of JCPA's English books, monographs, newsletters, website, and Internet publications since 1986. He is managing editor of JCPA's Daily Alert Internet digest of Israel and Mideast news, as well as the Center's Jerusalem Viewpoints and Jerusalem Issue Briefs. He served as assistant to Jerusalem Center Founding President Daniel J. Elazar from 1985 to 1999, and as press and legislative assistant to Congressman William Lehman (D-Fla.) from 1973 to 1978.

Dr. Uzi Arad is Director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy (IPS) at Herzliya's Interdisciplinary Center.

Prof. Moshe Arens was Israel's defense minister during the 1991 war with Iraq. He served as Israel's Minister of Defense in three different governments, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and was Israel's Ambassador to the United States.

Professor Moshe Arens is an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Likud party, and served as Minister of Defense three times.

Alexander Arndt is a research associate for Knowing Israel, a study-tour program for journalists.

Arthur Arnheim, former director of the Union of Danish Ph.Ds, MAs, and MSc.s, is a historian who received his M.A. from Copenhagen University. He researched the history of Danish Jews and the Jews of Northern Germany. He published studies and articles on the Danish Jewish community leadership and the Holocaust, as well as on the rescue of most Danish Jews from German persecution. Now retired, he works on research in Jerusalem.

Trevor Asserson worked as a solicitor for the UK's leading litigation firm and thereafter set up a department specializing in judicial review at one of the UK's premier pro bono firms. He was called to the Israeli bar in 1992. He is today a senior international litigation partner in the London office of one of the world's largest law firms.

Zeidan Atashi is an Associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He has been a senior reporter and commentator on Arab affairs for Israel Television, Consul and Head of Information Affairs at the Israel Consulate General in New York (1972), a member of the Israeli delegation to the UN (1975-76, 1989, 1993), a member of the Knesset (1977-81, 1984-88), and advisor to the Minister of Education and Culture (1992-96). He is the author of Druze and Jews in Israel -- A Shared Destiny? and is today an independent scholar and researcher focusing on ethnicity and minority-majority relations.

Jose Maria Aznar was Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. Today he heads the Foundation for Social Analysis and Study (FAES) in Madrid.

Rıfat N. Bali, an independent scholar, is a graduate of Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Religious Sciences Division, in Paris. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles on the history of Turkish Jewry. His most recent publication is The "Varlık Vergisi" Affair: A Study of Its Legacy-Selected Documents (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2005).

David Bankier is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the In-stitute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jeru-salem and head of the International Institute for Holocaust Re-search at Yad Vashem. His recent publications include Probing the Depths of German Antisemitism (2000) and Nazi Europe and the Final Solution (2002).

Sylvia Barack Fishman is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and also codirector of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and a faculty affiliate at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. Her newest book, Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage (Brandeis University Press, 2004) has been the subject of lively discussion. She is the author of numerous articles as well as three previous books.

Amazia Baram is a Professor in the Department of the History of the Middle East at the University of Haifa, and advises various branches of the Israeli and U.S. governments about Iraq and the Gulf. In 2003-2004 he was a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. He also served as chair of his university department and Director of the Jewish-Arab Center and the Gustav Heinemann Institute for Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa.

Dr. Mitchell G. Bard is executive director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst who lectures frequently on U.S. Middle East policy. Dr. Bard is also director of the Jewish Virtual Library, the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture. He is the author of eighteen books, the latest being Will Israel Survive? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Rafael Bardaji studied political science at the Madrid Complutense University and specialized in international relations in London, and at Harvard and MIT in the United States. He was a lecturer at ICADE, a private university in Madrid, from 1990-1993. In 1989 he became adviser to the Parliamentary Group of José María Aznar, then leader of the Popular Party. In 1996, when the Popular Party came to power, he was appointed strategic adviser, based in the Defense Ministry, to Prime Minister Aznar. After the March 2004 elections, he became head of International Policy Studies at FAES. He remains a personal adviser to Mr. Aznar.

DR. ROBERT P. BARNIDGE, JR., is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Reading.

Julien Bauer received his Ph.D. in political science from the Sorbonne University in 1974. Since 1975 he is professor of political science at Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2008 he was a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, a member of the executive of the Public Administration Institute of Greater Montreal and author of nine books, including Minorités au Québec (Montreal, Boréal, 1994 and 2002), Système politique canadien, Système politique israélien, Partis religieux en Israel, Politique et religion (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1999).

Yehuda Bauer was born in Prague in 1926. He is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He founded the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism in 1982, remaining its chairperson until 1995. He retired in 2001 from his directorship of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, where he now serves as Academic Advisor. In 1998 he was awarded the Israel Prize. He has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2000.

Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and a visiting professor at both Metropolitan College and Touro Law School. She has also taught at Columbia University Law School and the University of Ottawa. She is currently on leave from York University. In 2001 she published a report in collaboration with the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Bayefsky has written extensively on the UN. She has been on several Canadian delegations to the General Assembly and the UN Commission for Human Rights in the 80's and 90's.

Steven Bayme serves as national director, Contemporary Jewish Life, for the American Jewish Committee and is director of its Dorothy and Julius Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations. He is also a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. His many publications include Understanding Jewish History: Texts and Commentaries, and Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments.

Prof. Michael J. Bazyler is professor of law at Whittier Law School, California, and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law, California. In Fall 2006, he was the holder of the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust, a research fellowship at Yad Vashem. He is the author of over fifty articles dealing with the international law of human rights and of the book Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts (New York: New York University Press, 2003; ppbk., 2005).

Dr. Edward S. Beck is co-founder and President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (www.spme.net). He is director of the Susquehanna Institute in Harrisburg, PA and has served on the administrations and taught psychology and professional ethics at Penn State, New York University, Rutgers University, Alvernia College, Lebanon Valley College, Rosemont College and the City University of New York.

Leila Beckwith is a UCLA Pediatrics Department professor emeritus.

MK Ze’ev Binyamin Begin (Beni Begin) is currently Minister without Portfolio and a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s forum of seven senior ministers. Currently serving his fourth term, he first served in the Knesset as a Likud MK from 1988 until 1997. During this period he was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee as well as Minister of Science. He returned to the Knesset in 2009.

Rolf Behrens is a program assistant at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Israel Office in Jerusalem.

Serah Beizer, a part-time researcher on the history of the Jews in Finland and the fate of Jewish POWs in World War II, is affiliated with the Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies and works as the coordinator of the Jewish Agency Resource Center. Her MA thesis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was on the Hehalutz (pioneering-Zionist) movement in Sweden during World War II.

Dr. Avi Becker is former secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress and has testified before the U.S. Congress on the Jewish refugees from Arab countries. He currently teaches international diplomacy to MA students and heads the Jewish Public Policy project at the School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University. He has published books and articles on international, UN, and Jewish affairs.

Dr. Avi Bell of the Faculty of Law of Bar-Ilan University is currently a visiting professor at Fordham Law School. He specializes in international law, particularly the laws of war. Dr. Bell served in an IDF reserve paratrooper brigade in combat in the recent conflict in Lebanon.

Lenny Ben-David is consulting editor for the Daily Alert Internet news digest, and is editor of Israel Campus Beat (for college students) and High Alert (for high school students). He served as deputy chief of mission at Israel's embassy in Washington 1997-2000, and as Program Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs (2002-2004). He was AIPAC's Director of Information and Research for 10 years, editing the Near East Report and numerous editions of Myths and Facts, then opened AIPAC's first Israel office in 1982, directing it for nearly 15 years.

Gabriel Ben-Dor is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science and former Rector at the University of Haifa. This Jerusalem Letter is based on a larger research paper on the Druze community prepared in conjunction with a conference on Education in the Druze Community and a workshop on the Integration of the Druze in Israel co-sponsored by JCPA, ISES, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Ilan Benjamin is professor of chemistry at UC Santa Cruz.

Eytan Bentsur is a former Director General of the Foreign Ministry and is the author of Making Peace. Today he is a special advisor to the American company Patco.

Norman Berdichevsky is a native New Yorker currently living in Santiago de la Ribera (Murcia), Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1974) and is the author of The Danish-German Border Dispute (Bethesda, MD: Academica Press LLC, 2002) and Nations, Language and Citizenship (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2004) and one of the contributors to Best Jewish Writing 2003 (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004), He is the author of 150 publications that have appeared in World Affairs, Midstream, Ariel, Contemporary Review, Journal of Cultural Geography, The World & I, Ethnicity, Ecumene, Landscape Journal, Scandinavian Review, Israel Affairs, and many others.

William Berger is a student at the University of Chicago, and a research intern at the JCPA.

Corinne Berzon is originally from Montreal, where she completed an undergraduate honors degree at Concordia University in political science and liberal arts. She moved to Israel in 2003 and is completing a master’s degree in political philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2005 she was an intern at the JCPA.

Dr. John Bew is Harris Fellow and Lecturer in Modern British History at Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge, and has published on aspects of British and Irish history from the eighteenth century onwards.

Bent Blüdnikow worked at the Danish National Archives from 1983 to 1993. He then became opinion editor of the weekly Weekendavisen. From 1998 he was opinion editor, and since 2002 journalist, at the conservative daily Berlingske Tidende. He has published several books on Danish Jewish history and eighteenth-century Danish history. Among them are Immigranter: Østeuropæiske jøder i København 1904-1920 (Copenhagen, 1986) and Som om de slet ikke eksisterede: Hugo Rothenberg og kampen for de tyske jøder (Copenhagen, 1991).

Frits Bolkestein is a Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner. He was the leader of the market liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, the VVD. In the European Commission, Bolkestein was responsible for Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union issues.

Ephraim Borowski, MBE MA BPhil, is director of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities. He is a former head of the Philosophy Department of the University of Glasgow and is the author of The HarperCollins Dictionary of Mathematics (1991). He is a ministerial appointee to the General Teaching Council for Scotland, and is chair of the Regional Council of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Seva Brodsky grew up in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1981. He received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northeastern University in Boston, respectively. Brodsky was actively involved in the struggle against divestment in Somerville.

Michael Brown is professor emeritus at York University in Toronto. In 2006, he was visiting professor at the Halbert Center for Canadian Studies and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his recent works is Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2003), written and edited with Daniel J. Elazar and Ira Robinson.

Bjarte Bruland earned his Master's Degree in 1995 with a thesis entitled, "The Attempt to Destroy the Jews of Norway, 1940-1945." During 1996-97 he was a member of the government committee investigating the fate of Jewish property during and after the war. From 1997-99 he worked for Oslo's city archives, and from 1999-2001 he was employed as webmaster for the Directorate of Public Management. Thereafter, he was hired by the Oslo Jewish community to organize their historical archives. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation, "Norway and the Holocaust, 1925-1950," at Bergen University.

Gerald Bubis is Founding Director of the School of Jewish Communal Service and Alfred Gottschalk Professor Emeritus of Jewish Communal Studies at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. He is Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, on which he has served as a Fellow since 1977.

Daphne Burdman is a physician with double specialist certification from the American Board of Pathologists and the American Board of Psychiatrists and Neurologists, and has published research in both fields. She was assistant clinical professor of pathology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. In Israel she was research associate for a special project at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1996-1999.

Ambassador Richard Butler of Australia is former Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, the UN Monitoring Agency on Iraq. He is now Diplomat in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. This Jerusalem Letter is based on his presentation in Jerusalem on July 17, 2000, under the auspices of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the New Atlantic Initiative of the American Enterprise Institute.

Jerome A. Chanes has taught American Jewish sociology, Jewish public policy issues, and biblical Hebrew at Barnard College and Yeshiva University. He is the author most recently of Antisemitism: A Reference Handbook (ABC-CLIO, 2004), and his monograph A Primer on the American Jewish Community will appear in a third edition.

David Clayman is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Director of the Israel Office of the American Jewish Congress.

DR. AMICHAI COHEN has completed his doctorate at Bar-Ilan University on Bar-Mitzra―The Abutter―in 2006. He is presently teaching and continuing his research in Hebrew law.

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security at The Heritage Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Advisers of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Dr. Asher Cohen is senior lecturer in the Political Science Department at Bar-Ilan University. He has published books and articles in the fields of religion and state in Israel and religious Zionism. These include Tallith and Flag: Religious Zionism and the Vision of a Torah State in the Early Days of the State (Jerusalem, 1998, in Hebrew); From Completeness to Escalation: The Religious-Secular Rift at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (Tel Aviv, 2003, in Hebrew).

Ben Cohen is a British Jewish writer and broadcaster based in New York. A former producer and reporter with the BBC, he now works as a freelance journalist and analyst for several newspapers and broadcasters.

Steven M. Cohen, a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, teaches at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His works on American Jewish identity include "Religious Stability and Ethnic Decline" (Jewish Community Centers Association); Two Worlds of Judaism (with Charles Liebman, Yale University Press); American Assimilation or Jewish Revival (Indiana University Press); and American Modernity and Jewish Identity (Routledge). He serves as Director of the Florence G. Heller/JCCA Research Center and Senior Research Consultant to the UJC.

DR. YAACOV COHEN completed his doctorate in economics at the University of Vienna while employed by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. He has held various foreign assignments: ambassador to Spain, 1992-1995; to Japan and South Korea, 1985-1988; to Venezuela, 1981-1985; chargé d'affaires in Turkey, 1980-1981; minister (economy) at the Israeli embassy in Belgium and deputy head of Mission to the European Union in Brussels, 1972-1976. In Jerusalem: deputy economic director of the Foreign Ministry, 1988-1992; head of the foreign trade desk of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, 1976-1980;. Since 1995, Dr. Cohen has been senior lecturer in East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University.

Kenneth Collins, FRCGP MPhil PhD, was chairman of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2006 to 2007. He is chairman of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre and the author of a number of books and articles about the Jews in Scotland. He is currently visiting professor at the Medical Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Ruth Contreras is a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East from 2002 to the present. She is also the European coordinator for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and coordinator of the Austrian Chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East . Formerly head of the Department of Entomology at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, she is now pursuing Jewish studies at the University of Vienna.

David Cook is assistant professor of religious studies at Rice University, specializing in Islam. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001. His areas of specialization include early Islamic history and development, Muslim apocalyptic literature and movements, historical astronomy, and Judeo-Arabic literature. His first book, Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic, was published by Darwin Press in 2003 as part of the series Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Two further books, Understanding Jihad and Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature, were published in 2005. Cook has completed Martyrdom in Islam for Cambridge University Press (released in January 2007) and is working on a book (together with Olivia Allison), Understanding and Confronting Suicide Attacks, focusing on the policy ramifications of radical Muslim suicide attacks for the United States.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. He was born in New York and has been extensively involved in Soviet Jewry issues, including visiting refuseniks in the 1970s, helping to open the first Jewish cultural center in Moscow in the 1980s, and lecturing at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Sakharov Foundation in the 1990s. For nearly a quarter of a century Rabbi Cooper has overseen the SWC's international social action agenda, which ranges from worldwide anti-Semitism and Nazi war crimes and restitution, to extremist groups and tolerance education.

Irwin Cotler, a renowned international human rights lawyer, is a member of the Canadian Parliament, Professor of Law at McGill University, and an Associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Gerald Cromer (1944-2008) served as a Professor of Criminology at Bar Ilan University.

BARBARA CROOK is associate director and North American representative of Palestinian Media Watch. She teaches at the School of Journalism and Communications at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She holds an Honors BA in English Literature from Queen’s University, an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario, and a Southam Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Cecil B. Currey is emeritus professor of military history at the University of South Florida.

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan served as Head of the Planning Branch of the IDF General Staff and headed the Israeli security committee to peace negotiations with the Jordanians, Palestinians, and Syrians. He later served as head of the Central Command and as Deputy Chief of the General Staff. He also served as Chairman of Israel's National Security Council and was the National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister.

Prof. Sergio DellaPergola, of the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is senior fellow and project head at the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute in Jerusalem.

Ron Dermer, a political consultant who lives in Jerusalem, is a partner in Midgam Research.

Minister of Internal Security Avi Dichter served from 2000 to 2005 as head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).

Dan Diker is Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, where he is also a senior foreign policy analyst. He is also an Adjunct Fellow of the Hudson Institute in Washington.

Dr. Stephen G. Donshik is director of the Israel Office of the UJA-Federation of New York.

Prof. Yehezkel Dror is professor of political science (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founding president of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. His experience as a strategic planner includes two years at the RAND Corporation, senior advisory positions in the offices of the Israeli prime minister and defense minister, and two years working on EU policy issues at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht.

Dr. Nathan Durst was born in Berlin and came to the Netherlands in 1939. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology from Groningen University. He came to Israel in 1971 and worked as chief psychologist in a psychiatric hospital for 15 years. He is a past chairman of the Israeli Psychotherapeutic Association and teaches at Tel Aviv University. He is co-founder of AMCHA (Israeli Center for Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation) and works as its clinical director. He lectures in Israel, the United States and in Europe – mostly in Germany – about trauma and the Shoah.

Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Giora Eiland is the head of Israel's National Security Council. He has served as Head of the IDF's Operations Directorate and the Planning and Policy Directorate, where he was responsible for designing and implementing the IDF's operational and strategic policies. Gen. Eiland retired from active duty in January 2004.

Arnold M. Eisen is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Chosen People in America (Indiana University Press); Galut: Modern Jewish Reflections on Homelessness and Homecoming (Indiana University Press); Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (Indiana University Press); and Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (University of Chicago Press)--winner of a Koret Jewish Book Award.

Herbert Eiteneier is an elementary school teacher in Leverkusen, Germany.

Stuart E. Eizenstat was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1943. He graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in political science from the University of North Carolina, and has a law degree from Harvard Law School. In the Carter administration he was chief domestic policy adviser and executive director of the White House. During the Clinton administration he was, respectively, ambassador to the European Union, undersecretary of commerce for international trade, undersecretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs and deputy secretary of the treasury. He was simultaneously special representative of the president and secretary of state on Holocaust-era issues. At present he is in charge of the international practice of the law firm, Covington & Burling and based in its Washington Office. He is chairman of the International Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Professor Daniel J. Elazar (1934-1999) was a leading political scientist and specialist in the study of the Jewish political tradition, Israel, the world Jewish community, federalism, and political culture. He was Professor of Political Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he founded the Center for the Study of Federalism, and held the Senator N.M. Paterson Professorship in Intergovernmental Relations at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, heading its Institute for Local Government. Professor Elazar was the author or editor of more than 60 books, and founded and edited the scholarly journal Jewish Political Studies Review.

Rabbi David Ellenson was ordained at HUC-JIR's New York School in 1977. He received his PhD in the sociology of religion from Columbia University in 1981. He has published several books including Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics of Jewish Religion and Identity in the Modern World. His newest book, After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity, published by Hebrew Union College Press, was awarded the Dorot Foundation Award as the most outstanding book in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience in 2005. Rabbi Ellenson was named the eighth president of HUC-JIR in 2001.

Simon Epstein came to Jerusalem in 1974. In France he had been inter alia the secretary general of the French Zionist Federation. He worked as an economist in the budget department of the Israeli Ministry of Finance. Since 1982 he has published books and articles on anti-Semitism and racism. He is a former director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he now carries out research. He also teaches at the Hebrew University.

Ambassador Dr. Oded Eran Ambassador of Israel to the European Union. Has been with the Israeli Foreign Service for over thirty years, where he has served in Israeli Embassies in London and Washington. During his posting as Ambassador to Jordan, he led the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, on the final status. As Deputy Director-General for Economic Affairs in Foreign Ministry, he directed negotiations on the Association Agreement with the EU (1995) and participated in the negotiations on the Paris Economic Agreement with the Palestinians. Received a Ph.D. in Political Science from LSE.

Simon Erlanger is a journalist and historian. He was born in Switzerland in 1965 and educated in Basel and Jerusalem. A former employee of the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, he presently teaches Jewish history at the University of Lucerne. He also works as an editor for Telebasel, a television station for northwestern Switzerland.

Dr. Evers-Emden was born to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1926. In August 1944 she was seized by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz, which she survived. In 1973 she became a lecturer in psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Her research on Dutch Jewish children hidden during the war, and on their parents and "hiding-parents," has been published in four books. She was decorated by the queen of Holland as an officer of the Orde van Oranje-Nassau. Today she is a teacher of Jewish subjects.

Ambassador Freddy Eytan, a former Israeli Foreign Ministry senior advisor who served in Israel's embassies in Paris and Brussels, was Israel's first Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. He heads the Jerusalem Center's Israel-Europe Project, focusing on presenting Israel's case in the countries of Europe. His books include La Poudriere (The Powder Keg) (1991), Shimon Peres - Biographie (1996), Keren Or (Ray of Light) (2004), France: Le Double Jeu (Double Game) (2004), and Sharon, A Life in Times of Turmoil (English and French, 2006).

Dr. Avner Falk is an Israeli clinical psychologist, psychohistorian, and political psychologist. He has published five books, including Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (University of Wisconsin Press) and A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), as well as some fifty scholarly articles. He is currently working on a psychohistory of contemporary anti-Semitism.

Giuliano Ferrara is the founder and editor of the daily Il Foglio. He was born in Rome in 1952 to a family of longstanding communists, and remained a communist until the age of thirty. He was a political columnist for Corriera della Sera and has published in several Italian weeklies. He has been the director of many television programs, first for the state-owned RAI and later for Mediaset of the Berlusconi Group. For five years he has been anchoring a daily news program on the independent network La7 owned by the Telecom group.

Dr. Joel Fishman is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Chairman of the Foundation for the Research of Dutch Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of "Ten Years Since Oslo: The PLO's ‘People's War' Strategy and Israel's Inadequate Response," Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 503, 1 September 2003 and coauthor (with Efraim Karsh) of La Guerre d'Oslo (The Oslo War) (Paris: Editions de Passy, 2005). Dr. Fishman is carrying out research on political warfare, particularly media warfare and propaganda.

Rivkah Duker Fishman is lecturer in Jewish history at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Tzvi Fleischer has been editor of The Review, the monthly current affairs magazine of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), since 1999. He has served in various roles at AIJAC since 1992, and also writes a monthly media column for the Australian Jewish News. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in international politics at Monash University.

Jonathan Fox received his Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland in 1997. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Political Studies Department of Bar Ilan University and a fellow in the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He specializes in the influence of religion on politics, which he examines using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies including analyses of the impact of religion on domestic conflict, terrorism, international intervention, and international relations as well as separation of religion and state. He has published numerous articles on this topic as well as his recent books: Bringing Religion into International Relations (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2004) and Religion, Civilization, and Civil WarK/i> (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004).

Abraham H. Foxman was born in Baranowicz, Poland, in 1940 and survived the Second World War in Vilna by assuming a Catholic identity. In 1946, he was subject to a custody battle in Soviet courts. In 1950, he went with his parents to the United States where he studied at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, City College, and New York University Law School. He began working at the Anti-Defamation League in 1965 and became its national director in 1987.

Dr. Martyn Frampton is a Research Fellow in History, also at Peterhouse, and an expert on Irish republicanism. Their book, Talking to Terrorists: The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country, will be published with Hurst and Co. and Colombia University Press University later this year. It is co-written with Inigo Gurruchaga.

Ronnie Fraser is founder and chair of the Academic Friends of Israel (www.academics-for-israel.org). He is a lecturer at Barnet College in London and a member of the NATFHE lecturers union. This autumn he will complete an MA in Jewish Studies at Southampton University with a dissertation on "The Trades Union Congress, the Left, and Israel 1967-1982."

Asher Fredman is a writer and researcher living in Jerusalem. He holds a BA and MA from Harvard in Government and Middle Eastern Studies. He has been a research fellow at the JCPA and at NGO Monitor, and has worked with several members of Knesset.

Dr. Robert O. Freedman, an Associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science at Baltimore Hebrew University and is Visiting Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Shalom Freedman is a freelance writer in Jerusalem.

Dr. Chuck Freilich, formerly Israeli Deputy National Security Adviser, is now a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Rochelle Furstenberg is a Jerusalem-based writer specializing in cultural, social, and religious issues. She is a columnist for Hadassah Magazine, and has been a frequent contributor to the Jerusalem Post and the Jerusalem Report. She is the author of "Post-Zionism: The Challenge to Israel" and "The Women's Movement in Israel" (American Jewish Committee and the Argov Center at Bar-Ilan University), and has contributed essays on "Culture in Israel" to the American Jewish Yearbook (1995, 1997, 1999).

Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant was appointed Head of the IDF Southern Command in 2005, after serving as Military Secretary to Prime Minister Sharon. He also served as Head of the Gaza Division, and as Head of the Naval Commando Unit.

Dr. Boaz Ganor is the deputy dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is also the founder and the executive director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the IDC.

Jeffrey Gedmin was born in Washington, DC, in 1958. He studied music as an undergraduate. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and worked at the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he became director of the Aspen Institute of Berlin.

Rela Mintz Geffen has been the president of Baltimore Hebrew University since 2000. Before that she was professor of sociology and coordinator of the programs in Jewish communal service at Gratz College in Philadelphia, where she served as dean for academic affairs for five years. She is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and her PhD in sociology is from the University of Florida. She is a board member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Her most recent book, Conservative Judaism: Dilemmas and Challenges, was coauthored with the late Daniel Elazar and published by SUNY Press in 2000.

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is an international business strategist who has been a consultant to governments, international agencies, and boards of some of the world's largest corporations. Among the eleven books he has published are Europe's Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today's Anti-Semitism (JCPA, Yad Vashem, WJC, 2003) and European-Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change? (JCPA and Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2006).

Dr. Johannes Gerster has been the representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Israel since 1997. From 1972 to 1976 and from 1977 to 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag (parliament) and, as such, deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary faction. At the same time he was chairman of the CDU Party in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. For forty years he has been working for improvement in Israeli-German relations. For decades he was vice-president and president of the German-Israeli parliamentarian group in the Bundestag.

Dr. Betsy Gidwitz, formerly a Soviet-area specialist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is now an independent consultant in Chicago. She travels extensively in the post-Soviet states. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has published a number of her reports on events in that part of the world, including Post-Soviet Jewry: Critical Issues (1999) and Jewish Life in Ukraine at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (2001).

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad is Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Israel Ministry of Defense. Gen. Gilad has also served as the Defense Ministry's Coordinator for the Administered Territories, Director of the Research Division of the IDF's Intelligence Branch, and as the IDF Spokesman.

Brig. Gen. Eival Gilady was the former director of the IDF Strategic Planning Division.

Dr. Raanan Gissin, a former senior advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is one of Israel's leading spokesmen to the foreign press and the international community on security and strategic issues.

Joshua Gleis is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Studies at Harvard University and a Ph.D. Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. As an analyst at the Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies, his areas of focus are counterterrorism, counterinsurgencies, and the Middle East.

Dean Godson is Associate Editor of the Spectator. His latest book is Himself Alone: David Trimble & the Ordeal of Unionism (2004), a study of the Ulster Unionist Party leader.

David Goldberg is a Toronto-based independent policy analyst. He has had a long career in Jewish studies and in Jewish communal work. He was the national executive director of Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East (1988-1991) and the director of research and education of the Canada-Israel Committee (1991-2007). His publications –The Domestic Battleground: Canada and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1989, with David Taras) and Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups: American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel (1990) – were among the first to apply a scholarly perspective to the domestic political dimension of Canada’s Middle East foreign policy decision-making process. His recent publications include “Israel as a Source of Identification for Canadian Jewry” (2007), Historical Dictionary of Israel, 2nd ed. (with Bernard Reich, 2008), “Religion and State in the State of Israel” (with B. Reich, 2009), a chapter on Israel (with B. Reich) for Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, 6th ed. (forthcoming, August 2010), and an entry on Israel for Encyclopedia of B

Ellen S. Goldberg is a writer, photographer and editor.

PROF. ALAIN GOLDSCHLÄGER is Ontario Region Co-Chair of the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada. A specialist in Holocaust education, he is director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute and professor of French at the University of Western Ontario. His most recent publications include (editor, with Clive Thomson) Le Discours scientifique comme porteur de préjugés (Scientific Discourse as Prejudice-Carrier) (London: Mestengo, 1998); (editor) La Shoah: Témoignage impossible? (The Shoah: Impossible Testimony?) (Brussels: Presses de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1998) [French]; Building History: The Shoah in Art, Memory, and Myth (New York: Peter Lang, 2001); and (editor, with Jacques Lemaire) Antisémitisme après la Shoah (Antisemitism after the Shoah) (Brussels: Éditions Espace de Libertés, 2003). He is currently working on a book on Holocaust testimonies.

Yonit Golub is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and a cofounder of the Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI). She has conducted research at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

David Govrin has served in Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1989. He was formerly First Secretary of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and Political Counselor of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations in New York.

Dr. Yosef Govrin joined Israel’s Foreign Ministry in 1953 and served as director of the East European Department and deputy director-general of the Ministry, ambassador to Romania, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, and to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna. Since 1996 he has been a Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of several books and many articles on international relations.

Aryeh Green is director of MediaCentral, a provider of services to foreign media based in Israel, and is a business consultant active in Israel’s public diplomacy (hasbara) efforts. He works with former minister Natan Sharansky on issues related to young Jewish leadership, hasbara, and anti-Semitism, and served as a senior adviser to Sharansky in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, where he coordinated a global effort to support Jewish university students and to defend Israel in academia. He has visited over seventy-five universities, and has spoken to and with thousands of university students and faculty members in Europe, the United States and Israel in the past two decades.

BEN GREEN was a research assistant at the Global Research for International Affairs (GLORIA) Center at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel.

TOBY GREENE is a researcher and analyst specializing in UK-Israel relations. He is completing his PhD on British policy in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, pre and post 9/11

Gavin Gross was a postgraduate student from 2004-2006 and chair of the Jewish Society at the school of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In September 2006 he completed his MA in Near and Middle Eastern studies and now serves as director of public affairs for the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland.

Marissa Gross graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University with a B.A. in American History. Since September 2007, she has been studying toward her Master's Degree in Education Policy and Administration at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a research assistant at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in 2006. At present, in addition to her studies, Marissa is employed at the JCPA as the Communications Coordinator.

Dr. George E. Gruen, an Associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University's Middle East Institute and a specialist in Turkish affairs.

PROF. AMOS N. GUIORA is professor of law and director of the Institute for Global Security, Law and Policy, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He served for nineteen years in the Israel Defense Forces, holding senior command positions in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps including legal adviser for the Gaza Strip, judge advocate for the navy and Home Front commands, and commander of the IDF School of Military Law. In this last capacity he had command responsibility for developing an eleven-point interactive video teaching IDF soldiers and commanders a code of conduct based on international law, Israeli law, and the IDF ethical code.

Brig.-Gen. Gershon HaCohen is commander of the "Gaash" Formation of the Israel Defense Forces.

Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi is a senior researcher of the Middle East and radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is a co-founder of the Orient Research Group Ltd. and is a former advisor to the Policy Planning Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Efraim Halevy is an Israeli intelligence expert. He was the ninth director of Mossad and the 4th head of the Israeli National Security Council.

Antoine Halff is a Principal Analyst for the Oil Industry and Market Division of the International Energy Agency.

Maj. Gen. Dan Haloutz was appointed Commander in Chief of the Israel Air Force on April 4, 2000. He then served as Chief of Staff of the IDF from 2005 to 2007.

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Shalom Harari is a Senior Research Scholar with the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He served in the territories for twenty years as a senior advisor on Palestinian affairs for Israel's Defense Ministry.

Thomas Haury lectures in the Sociology Department of the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany. He received his PhD in 2001. His research focuses on anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Americanism on the Left. His recent publications include Antisemitismus von links? Kommunistische Ideologie, Nationalismus und Antizionismus in der frühen DDR (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2002) [German]; "The GDR and the ‘Aggressor State, Israel,'" in Otto R. Rombach, ed., Forty Years of Diplomatic Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel (Frankfurt am Main: Tribüne-Verlag, 2005); "No-Globals, Antisemitismus und Antiamerikanismus," in Hanno Loewy, ed., Gerüchte über die Juden (Essen: Klartext, 2005) [German].

Prof. Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has also been a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and the Universities of New South Wales and Melbourne in Australia.

Jeffrey S. Helmreich is the author of numerous articles on Israel for American newspapers and journals. His previous Jerusalem Issue Brief was "Diplomatic and Legal Aspects of the Settlement Issue" (January 2003). His Jerusalem Viewpoints include: "Beyond Political Terrorism: The New Challenge of Transcendent Terror" (November 2001); "Journalistic License: Professional Standards in the Print Media's Coverage of Israel" (August 2001); and "The Israel Swing Factor: How the American Jewish Vote Influences U.S. Elections" (January 2001).

William B. Helmreich is Professor of Sociology & Judaic Studies at City University Graduate Center and City College of New York and Director of the City College Conflict Resolution Center. He was also department chairman and has held visiting posts at Yale University and Hebrew University. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Dr. Helmreich is the author of eleven books, including Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives they Made in America (Simon & Schuster), winner of a National Jewish Book Award; The Things they Say Behind Your Back (Doubleday); The World of theYeshiva (The Free Press);editor of Letters From Tel Mond Prison: An Israeli Settler Defends his Act of Terror (The Free Press).

Dr. Clemens Heni is a political scientist and author. As of September 2008 he will be a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism at Yale University, USA. He lives in New Haven and was a Felix Posen Fellow at SICSA in 2003 and 2004.

DR. TSILLA HERSHCO of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies and the Political Sciences Department, Bar-Ilan University, specializes in Franco-Israeli relations, France and the Middle East conflict, Muslims and Jews in France, and France and the memory of the Holocaust. Her publications include: Entre Paris et Jérusalem, la France, le Sionisme et l'Etablissement de l'État d'Israël: 1945-1949 (Paris and Geneva: Editions Honoré Champion, 2003) [French]; and Those Who Walk in Darkness Will See the Light: The French Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust and the Creation of Israel, 1940-1949 (Tel Aviv: Yad Israel Galili and Tcherikiver, 2003) [Hebrew].

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (pronunciation (help·info); Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969[2] in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a feminist and political writer, daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse.

Prof. Johannes Houwink ten Cate studied contemporary and socio-economic history at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. From 1985 to 2002 he worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. Since 1989 his primary topic of interest has been the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the occupied Dutch territories. Since 2002 he has been Professor for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Odd Sverre Hove is editor in chief of the Norwegian Christian daily newspaper Dagen. He was formerly rural dean in the Church of Norway, secretary-general of the Norwegian Fishermen's Mission, and a member of the Board of Governors at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The author is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

Pinhas Inbari is a veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent who formerly reported for Israel Radio and Al Hamishmar newspaper, and currently reports for several foreign media outlets. He is the author of a number of books on the Palestinians including The Palestinians: Between Terrorism and Statehood.

Sherry Israel is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Associate Professor in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University. She is the author of Boston's Jewish Community: The 1985 CJP Demographic Study; The Comprehensive Report on the 1995 Demographic Study; and co-author of the JCCA monograph, Meaningful Jewish Community.

Raphael Israeli is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous books including The Third Islamic Invasion of Europe (forthcoming); Green Crescent Over Nazareth; Islam in China: Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics; The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue: The Regional Impact on Shiites, Kurds, Sunnis and Arabs; and Palestinians Between Nationalism and Islam.

Raphael Israeli is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous books including The Third Islamic Invasion of Europe (forthcoming); Green Crescent Over Nazareth; Islam in China: Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics; The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue: The Regional Impact on Shiites, Kurds, Sunnis and Arabs; and Palestinians Between Nationalism and Islam.

Jonathan Jaffit is a senior at the University of Toronto where he is pursuing a double major in human biology and Jewish studies. He was the founding president of Betar-Tagar, the university's Zionist Student Association, and currently is director of campus affairs for Betar-Tagar Canada. He also co-initiated and works as the recruitment and logistics coordinator for the Maimonides Project, a fellowship for developing campus Jewish leadership.

Prof. Hans Jansen taught history from 1990 to 2000 at the Flemish Free University in Brussels and since 2002 teaches at the Simon Wiesenthal Institute in Brussels. He also has lectured at the Free University in Amsterdam. He has prepared radio programs for the Dutch radio, among others, on the Christian roots of anti-Semitism. His major book is Christian Theology after Auschwitz. His other books, all in Dutch, include Diagnosis of Racism and Anti-Semitism in Europe (1994), The Christian Origin of Racist Hatred of Jews (1995), The Pope and the Persecution of the Jews: John Paul Rewrites History (1998), and From Hatred of Jews to Suicide Terrorism (2006).

Dr. Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German quality weekly Die Zeit. He is also adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, where he teaches U.S. foreign policy and co-teaches a seminar on terrorism. At Stanford, he is Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies as well as Abramowitz Fellow of International Relations at the Hoover Institution.

Jeremy Jones AM is director of international and community affairs for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, immediate past president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, and senior contributing editor of the Australia/Israel Review. He was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2005 for services to Australian Jewry, interfaith dialogue activities, and enhancing Australia's reputation internationally.

Dr. Helen B. Junz served as an economist with the U.S. government and the International Monetary Fund before establishing her economic consultancy service in 1996. She has worked with the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (Volcker Committee), served as a member of the Independent Commission of Experts, Switzerland (Bergier Commission), as Director of Research non-gold financial and economic assets for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Era Assets in the United States and as advisor to the van Kemenade Commission (Netherlands) and to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam and a M.A. from the New School for Social Research, New York. Her doctoral thesis "Where did all the money go?" (Berne, Staempfli, 1992) deals with pre-Nazi era wealth of European Jewry.

Dr. Ephraim Kam has served as Deputy Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University since 1995. He previously served as a colonel in the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence. He specializes in security problems of the Middle East, Iranian strategy, Israeli national security issues, and strategic intelligence. His publications include: Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective (1988); The Changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Implications on the Middle East (1991, Hebrew); The Political Framework of the Palestinian Entity (1993, Hebrew); and From Terror to Nuclear Bombs: The Significance of the Iranian Threat (2004, Hebrew).

Eliyahu Kanovsky, a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is Professor of Economics and Senior Researcher at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Robert Kaplan received his doctorate in history fom Cornell University. He is the author of Forgotten Crisis: The Fin-de-Siecle Crisis of Democracy in France (1995).

Professor Efraim Karsh heads the Mediterranean Studies Program at King's College, University of London.

Nathan Katz is professor of religious studies at Florida International University, Miami. His most recent book, coauthored with his wife Ellen S. Goldberg, is Kashruth, Caste and Kabbalah (New Delhi, 2005). He is also author of Who Are the Jews of India? (University of California Press, 2000), which was a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies, and winner of the 2004 Vak Devi Saraswati Saman Award from India, and coauthor of The Last Jews of Cochin: Jewish Identity in Hindu IndiaK/I>, with Ellen S. Goldberg, introduction by Daniel J. Elazar (University of South Carolina Press, 1993). He is coeditor of the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies. In 2002 he convened a research conference at Oxford University on "A Perspective from the Margin: The State of the Art of Indo-Judaic Studies."

Avi Kay holds a doctorate in human development and social policy from Northwestern University. He is currently Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Touro College in Israel. His areas of interest include political psychology, psychological perspectives of the Holocaust, and professional ethics.

Eli Kazhdan is a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He served as foreign policy advisor to Minister Natan Sharansky.

Nibras Kazimi, an Iraqi writer, is a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.

David Keyes is specializing on terrorism at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and is assisting Dr. Dore Gold.

Dr. Yitzhak Klein is Director of the Israel Policy Institute in Jerusalem. He has published numerous articles on Israeli politics and economic policy.

Lawrence Kohn has completed his thirtieth year as Education Director of Temple Beth El in Madison Wisconsin. He has conducted workshops for Madison Public School teachers on teaching the Holocaust, served on the Yom HaShoah committee of the Madison Jewish Community Council, and has written regularly on Middle Eastern affairs in Midstream.

DR. SUSANNA KOKKONEN received her PhD in contemporary Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been cultural attaché at the Finnish embassy in Tel Aviv. She currently works as a political director for the pro-Israeli lobby European Coalition for Israel in Brussels.

Dr. Eugene Korn is director of Jewish affairs at the American Jewish Congress, adjunct professor of Jewish thought in the Department of Christian-Jewish Studies at Seton Hall University, and editor of The Edah Journal: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse. He holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Columbia University and was ordained by the Israeli Rabbinate. He has published numerous scholarly monographs and articles on Jewish thought, Israel, and interfaith relations.

Dr. Joël Kotek was born in Gent in 1958. He studied history at the Free University of Brussels, and at Oxford University. He has a doctorate in Political Science from the Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris. Kotek teaches Political Science at the Free University of Brussels, specializing in the subject of European Integration. He is also director of Training at the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Paris.

Dr. Martin Kramer is senior research associate at the Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University. His book Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies (Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001) provided a thorough critique of Middle Eastern studies in the United States, documenting academe's failure to explain or predict major developments in the Middle East.

ELISABETH KUEBLER is an associate lecturer at the Lauder Business School, Vienna, and lecturer at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna.

Dr. Matthias Küntzel, associate researcher of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a political scientist and author and lives in Hamburg. His most recent book, Djihad und Judenhass. Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg (Jihad and Jew-Hatred: About the New Anti-Jewish War) was published in 2002.

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser served in a number of senior roles in the IDF, most recently as head of the Research and Assessment Division of Israeli Military Intelligence. Previously, he was the senior intelligence officer of the IDF Central Command.

Rabbi Norman Lamm received three degrees from Yeshiva University: BA, PhD, and rabbinic ordination. After twenty-five years in the pulpit and twenty-seven years as president of Yeshiva University, he became the university's chancellor in 2003. He is the author of ten books, some of which were translated into a number of languages.

Dr. Jacob Landau is professor emeritus of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow of the JCPA. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his research, which has focused on the history, politics, and culture of the modern Middle East. He has published twenty-two books (which have been translated into nine languages) and numerous articles in scholarly journals. His latest book is Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History (London: Christopher Hurst, 2004).

Uzi Landau, a Knesset Member since 1984, serves as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and previously served as Minister of Internal Security.

Richard Landes is a medievalist and teaches in the history department at Boston University. He specializes in the origins of European society around the turn of the first millennium. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D from Princeton University. He also studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Dr. Landes has published various books and edited several volumes, including an Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements (Routledge 2000).

Prof. Ruth Lapidoth, a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is widely recognized as a leading authority on international law. She is a recipient of the 2006 Israel Prize in Legal Research and of the 2000 Prominent Woman in International Law Award from the American Society of International Law. Prof. Lapidoth served in the Israeli delegation to the UN in 1976, and in 1979 was appointed Legal Advisor to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is the author of nine books and more than a hundred articles on international law, human rights, the Arab-Israeli conflict and Jerusalem.

Ruth Lapidoth is a Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Professor at the Law School of the College of Management. Her books include The Arab-Israel Conflict and Its Resolution: Selected Documents (1992), The Jerusalem Question and Its Resolution: Selected Documents (1994), Autonomy: Flexible Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts (1997), and The Old City of Jerusalem (2002). She is also the author of "Legal Aspects of the Palestinian Refugee Question," Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 485 (September 2002). In 2000 she received the "Prominent Woman in International Law Award" from the WILIG group of the American Society of International Law.

Ted Lapkin is a commentator on public affairs whose work has appeared in leading U.S. and Australian newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, The Australian, and the Sydney Morning Herald. He has also written for Quadrant Magazine (Australia) and has appeared as an analyst on Australian TV and radio. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Tel Aviv University and a master’s in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Scott Lasensky is a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. A former Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, he holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Brandeis University.

Naphtali Lavie was born in Cracow in 1926. He came to Israel in 1945. For 15 years he was a member of the editorial board of the Ha’aretz daily. In 1970 he became the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense and adviser to the late Minister Moshe Dayan. He continued to work with Dayan when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the years 1977-1980, and participated in talks for the peace treaty with Egypt. He was Israeli Consul General in New York with the rank of ambassador. He has held the post of Vice-Chairman of the Executive of the WJRO since 1993.

Netanel Lederberg teaches Talmud and Hasidism at various high schools and yeshivot. His research focuses on rabbinical leadership during the Shoah. He holds a B.A. in Talmudic Studies from Bar-Ilan University.

Isi Leibler chairs the Diaspora-Israel relations committee of the JCPA and is a former chairman of the governing board of the World Jewish Congress.

REBECCA LEIBOWITZ is a recent graduate of Rutgers University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and as a Henry Rutgers Scholar with BAs in psychology and Jewish studies. She served as student president of Rutgers Hillel and the Jewish Community Service Organization. She was also a member of the "Israel Inspires" Executive Committee, the Israel Action Committee of Rutgers University, the Rutgers Israel Public Affairs Committee, as well as a Grinspoon Israel Active Intern for Hillel International. Her essay was written during an internship Leibowitz also has conducted research at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Yechiel Leiter served as Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Education and was Chief of Staff to Benjamin Netanyahu at the Ministry of Finance. He earlier served as a political assistant to Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. He has written three books and dozens of articles on Zionism and Israeli politics, and has lectured extensively. He holds a degree in law, an MA in international relations, and is currently writing his doctoral thesis at Haifa University.

Dr. Eran Lerman is director of the Israel and Middle East Office of the American Jewish Committee and a former senior intelligence officer in Israel's Directorate of Military Intelligence.

Yehudah (Leo) Levi is past rector and professor of electro-optics at the Jerusalem College of Technology, where he also gave courses in Torah thought. In addition to some 140 articles published in scientific, technical, and Judaica journals, Professor Levi has published a number of books on optics, as well as halakhah and Jewish ideology.

Before moving to Israel in 2009, Adam Levick worked in the Civil Rights Division at the National Office of the Anti-Defamation League, where he was responsible for monitoring progressive journals and political blogs in the United States. He has published in the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Jewish Exponent.

Andrea Levin is executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a position she has held since 1990. Formerly associate editor of a public policy journal at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, she writes and lectures widely on media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Irene Levin is a professor of Social Work at the Graduate School for Social Work and Social Research at Oslo University College. She is on the board of the Oslo Holocaust Center and a member of the Info-Middle East group that deals with the media's presentation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She was also involved in activities on behalf of Soviet Jewry.

Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist and historian and author of The Oslo Syndrom: Delusions of a People under Siege (Hanover, NH: Smith & Kraus, 2005).

Stephen Levine is Associate Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Political Science and International Relations of Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). During 1999 he was a visiting professor at universities in both Kobe and Tokyo in Japan. He is the author of The New Zealand Jewish Community (Lexington Books and JCPA, 1999).

Matthew Levitt is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Noah Liben is a recent graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a former president of LionPAC, Columbia's pro-Israeli political action group. He has conducted research at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Dr. Dariusz Libionka is a historian associated with the Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta where she directs the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. Her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press/Macmillan, 1993) is the first full length study of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust. She is currently writing a book about the libel trial in London she won against David Irving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right-wing extremist.

Dr. Meir Litvak was born in 1958 in Jerusalem. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1991. He is a senior researcher at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and a senior lecturer in its Middle Eastern Studies Department. He has published Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), and edited Islam and Democracy in the Arab World ( Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibutz ha-Meuchad, 1997) [Hebrew].

Dr. John D. Loike is the co-director of Graduate Studies Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and director for Special Projects, Center for Biotethics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Aharon Lopez was previously Ambassador of Israel to the Vatican since. A career diplomat in Israel's Foreign Service, he also served as Ambassador of Israel in Cyprus, as well as in diplomatic posts in Burma, Finland, and Australia.

Amnon Lord is a veteran Israeli columnist.

Dr. Gal Luft is Executive Director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) and co-chair of the Set America Free Coalition. He specializes in strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East and energy security.

Dr. Daniel Mandel is a fellow in history at Melbourne University, director of the Zionist Organization of America's Center for Middle East Policy, and author of H.V. Evatt & the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist (London: Routledge, 2004).

Dr. Yohanan Manor was born in Paris in 1937 and moved to Israel in 1957. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), writing his PhD thesis on "Palestine in the Foreign Policy of Gamal Abd El-Nasser." From 1970 to 1978 he was a lecturer at the Hebrew University, and then for six years was director-general of the Information Department of the World Zionist Organization. His book To Right a Wrong (1996) analyzes the revocation of the "Zionism is racism" resolution. He is the chairman of IMPACT-SE, which surveys school curricula and textbooks to check their conformity with international standards.

Irwin J. Mansdorf, Ph.D., is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Examiners, a licensed psychologist in Israel and the U.S.A., and coordinator of the Israel Citizens Information Council in Raanana, Israel.

ITAMAR MARCUS is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch. Mr. Marcus was appointed by the Israeli government to be the Israeli representative (communications specialist) to the Trilateral (Israeli-Palestinian-American] Anti-Incitement Committee established under the Wye Accords. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Marcus served as Research Director of the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, writing reports on PA, Syrian, and Jordanian schoolbooks. He holds a BA in political science from City College of New York and an MA in Hebrew culture from New York University.

From 1986 to 2006, Henri Markens was principal of the Joods Lyceum Maimonides (Jewish Maimonides High School) in Amsterdam. Since then he serves as director-general of the Organization for Jewish Education (JBO). He has also been chairman of the Organization of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands (NIK) from 1994-2002, and he had been a member of the board from 1981. He was chairman of the CJO, the umbrella organization of Dutch Jewry, from 2000 to 2002.

PROF. ANDREI S. MARKOVITS, born in Timisoara, Romania, emigrated to the United States and received five degrees from Columbia University. He is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His books include The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond (1993), The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe (1997), and Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (2001). His latest book is Amerika, dich hasst sich’s besser: Anti-Amerikanismus und Antisemitismus in Europa, an English-language version of which will be published in 2006.

Tzvi C. Marx is French-born and has Israeli and American citizenships. Ordained by Yeshiva University in 1971, he earned his Ph.D. from the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht in 1993. Former director of education at the Hartman Institute (Jerusalem), he has resided in the Netherlands since 1996 where he is director of the B. Folkertsma Institute for Talmudica (Hilversum) and lectures on Judaism at the Radboud University (Nijmegen) and at the Windesheim College (Utrecht). Author of Disability in Jewish Law (Routledge, 2002), he coedits the periodical Tenachon.

Michelle Mazel is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Faculté de Droit of that city.

Zvi Mazel recently completed his tour as Israel's Ambassador to Sweden. From 1996 to 2001 he served as Israel's Ambassador to Egypt. He also held senior positions in Israel's Foreign Ministry as director of the Eastern European division and head of the Egyptian and North African department.

John McLaughlin, founder of McLaughlin and Associates, has worked professionally as a strategic consultant and pollster for twenty years.

Dr. Colin Meade lives in London, where he works as a translator and teacher of courses in international relations, international law, and modern European studies.

YISRAEL MEDAD is Information Resources Director at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem and lectures on Zionist history in various forums.

Prof. Peter Medding was born in Australia and is now Dr. Israel Goldstein Professor of the History of Zionism and the State of Israel in the Departments of Political Science and of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is one of the editors of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry, and his many publications include the books Mapai in Israel: Political Organisation and Government in a New Society (Cambridge, England, 1972); The Transformation of American Jewish Politics (New York, 1989); The Founding of Israeli Democracy 1948-1967 (New York, 1990); and Jewish Identity in Conversionary and Mixed Marriages (New York, 1992).

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on issues related to America’s response to the Holocaust. He is the author of eleven books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history, the most recent of which is Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2008).

Rabbi Michael Melchior was born in Copenhagen. He is the eighth generation of Scandinavian chief rabbis in his family. In 1980 he became chief rabbi of the Norwegian Jewish Community. From then until 1999 he divided his time between Oslo and Jerusalem, where he served as International Relations Director for the Eli Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. In May 1999 he was elected to the Knesset as Meimad's first candidate on the One Israel list. In July of that year, he was appointed Minister for Israeli Society and the World Jewish Community.

Dan Meridor is a former Israeli politician and minister and was one of the founders of the Centre Party.

Paul C. Merkley is professor emeritus in history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and the author of many books and articles on various aspects of Christian attitudes toward Zionism. His most recent book is American Presidents, Religion and Israel (Praeger, 2004).

Dr. Rory Miller was born in Dublin in 1971. He has a BA in history from Trinity College, Dublin, an MA in war studies, and a PhD in Mediterranean studies from King's College, University of London. He is a senior lecturer in the Mediterranean Studies program there, and teaches on U.S. and EU involvement in the Middle East and the wider Mediterranean. He has published two books, Divided against Zion: Anti-Zionist Opposition to a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-48 (London: Frank Cass, 2000) and Ireland and the Palestine Question, 1948-2004 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005). He is also the associate editor of Israel Affairs.

Prof. Sergio Itzhak Minerbi has been ambassador of Israel and senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Haifa. He has published a dozen books, among them The Vatican and Zionism (1990).

Prof. Alan Mittleman teaches modern Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, where he is also the director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies. His current research project is a book on hope, faith, and political theory, under contract with Oxford University Press.

DR. BEN MOLLOV is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences and the Program in Conflict Management at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of Power and Transcendence: Hans J. Morgenthau and the Jewish Experience (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002). In addition to his interest in the Jewish political tradition, he has been specializing in interreligious and intercultural approaches to conflict management and has published in the Journal of Church and State and the International Journal of Conflict Management.

Diane Morrison, Adv., is an Israeli-qualified lawyer, having served her clerkship at Herzog, Fox and Neeman. She will be pursuing a Masters in International Legal Studies at New York University in the Fall of 2008. The authors appreciate the efforts of Rafi Brass and Benjamin Fisher for their contributions to this article.

Ambassador Alfred H. Moses is currently the Chair of UN Watch, Geneva, Switzerland. From 1991 until 1994 he was president of the American Jewish Committee. He served as Special Adviser and Special Counsel to the President of the United States in the Carter White House. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him the American ambassador to Romania, where he served for three years. In 1999, President Clinton appointed him Special Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus Conflict. He served until the end of the Clinton administration. For more than fifty years he has been with the Washington, DC, law firm Covington & Burling LLP. He is currently a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Promontory Financial Group, Washington, DC.

Yitzhak Mualem is a lecturer in Israeli politics and international relations at Bar-Ilan University and the Academic College of Ashkelon. His field of expertise is Jewish world politics.

Hildegard Müller is now in her second term as a member of the German Bundestag, representing the city of Düsseldorf. She is chairwoman of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group and a member of the Committee on Health and Social Security. Müller is also a member of the presidium of the CDU. She has studied business economics, is a banker by profession, and an employee of Dresdner Bank.

Amichai Nachshon completed his doctorate in Bible studies in 2003 at Bar-Ilan University under the direction of Prof. Rimon Kasher on the topic: God's Requirements from the Gentiles in the Histiographic and Prophetic Biblical Literature. Dr. Nachshon is a teacher and researcher at the Ashkelon Academic College, Bar-Ilan university and Moreshet Yaacob institute, about the ethical aspects of philanthropy, justice, and animal rights in the Bible.

The author is a commentator on Arab affairs and a former diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Jordan.

Asher Naim is a veteran Israeli diplomat who has held positions in Japan and the United States, and was ambassador to Kenya, Uganda, Finland, Ethiopia, the Third Committee of the United Nations, and South Korea. He was instrumental in negotiating the transit of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, and in the repeal of the "Zionism is racism" UN resolution.

Benjamin Netanyahu served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999. He was then Finance Minister from 2003 to 2005.

Hillel C. Neuer, a member of the New York Bar, is executive director of UN Watch in Geneva and a frequent contributor of articles on law and politics.

Fiamma Nirenstein, born in Florence, is a correspondent and columnist for the daily Il Giornale after many years at La Stampa. She also writes a column for the weekly Panorama and is the author or editor of ten books and anthologies, most of which deal with Israel, the Middle East, terrorism, anti-Semitism, and Judaism. Her last book is Israele siamo noi (Israel Is Us). Her book Terror: The New Anti-Semitism and the War against the West has been translated into English. For the past five years she has taught an annual course in Middle Eastern history at Luiss University in Rome, and she now also teaches a doctoral-level course at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca. She is a member of the board of the Rome-based Magna Carta Foundation, an associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and an associate member of the Hudson Institute.

DR. MORDECHAI NISAN teaches Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Andre Oboler is a social media expert. He holds a PhD in computer science from Lancaster University, UK, and has been a postdoctoral fellow in political science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor in Jerusalem. He edits ZionismOnTheWeb.org, a website countering online hate.

Dr. Arye Oded joined the Israeli Foreign Ministry 1958 and served in several countries including Uganda and Malawi and as ambassador to Kenya, Zambia, Mauritius, Swaziland, Lesotho, and the Seychelles. He is now senior lecturer at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, and research fellow at the Truman Research Institute, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published many articles on Islam, the Middle East, Africa, and Israeli-African relations, and books on Kenya, Uganda, Islam in Africa, and Judaism in Africa.

Ehud Olmert is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He served previously as Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Industry, Trade, Labor and Communications.

Dr. Françoise S. Ouzan is associate professor and currently an affiliated scholar at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University and an associate researcher at the French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ, CNRS). She has published several works on immigration and postwar Jewish identity, including Ces Juifs dont l'Amérique ne voulait pas, 1945-1950 (Brussels: Complexe, 1995), Histoire des Américains juifs (Brussels: Complexe, forthcoming), and a historical fiction, Demain, nous partons (Paris: Bibliophane, 2007).

Yves Pallade (D.Phil., M.Phil, B.A., AKC) is director of the Foreign Affairs Network (F.A.N.) of B'nai B'rith Europe. In this capacity he deals in particular with the question of Israel’s image in Europe and the political fight against anti-Semitism. He previously served as an expert on monitoring, analyzing, and combating anti-Semitism at the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee. He has also acted as an advisor on this issue to various members of Parliament. The focus of his research and writing is on modern anti-Semitism, political extremism, and international terrorism.

DANIEL PARMER is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and is a 2007/08 Mandell L. Berman Steinhardt Social Research Institute Fellow. He received his dual MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Jewish Professional Leadership at Brandeis University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Policy at Brandeis University. He is co-author of "Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent" (2008) with Sylvia Barack Fishman.

David Parsons heads the Media Department of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.

Avi Pazner was born in Danzig shortly before World War II. He spent his childhood in Switzerland and moved to Israel with his parents in 1953. In 1965 he joined the Foreign Ministry and served in Africa and Washington. He became spokesman for the Ministry in 1981 and in 1986 was named senior adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In 1991 he was named ambassador to Italy and in that capacity negotiated the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican. From 1995 to 1998 he served as ambassador to France and then was elected world chairman of Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal, in which capacity he serves today.

Prof. Anton Pelinka is an internationally known political scientist. He is director of the Institute of Conflict Research (Vienna) and professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck. His work has appeared in many languages and he has written widely about both Austrian and European politics. His most recent books in English are Austria: Out of the Shadows of the Past (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998); The Haider Phenomenon in Austria (ed. with Ruth Wodak, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 2002); and Democracy Indian Style: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Creation of India’s Political Culture (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 2003). He has held many distinguished fellowships, visiting professorships, and academic positions in Europe and the United States, including at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago

Karl Pfeifer is an Austrian journalist and former editor of the Jewish community's newspaper, Die Gemeinde. He has published several books, including a selection of his articles under the title Nicht immer ganz bequem [Not always quite accommodating] (Vienna: Verlag Der Apfel, 1996).

DR. WINSTON PICKETT is a UK-based writer and analyst. He is a former director of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and previously served as communications director at the Board of Deputies of British Jews and external relations director at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, a member of the presidentially appointed board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a prize-winning columnist for the New York Sun and the Jerusalem Post. He received his B.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University, both in history. Pipes spent six years studying abroad, including three years in Egypt. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College, and has served in various capacities at the Departments of State and Defense.

Manuel Prutschi is national executive director pro tem of the Canadian Jewish Congress. He holds degrees in history from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario. He has played a major role before courts and human rights tribunals dealing with discrimination and the activities of anti-Semites and other racists. His scholarly publications include "Accountability, Justice and the Importance of Memory in the 'Era of War'" (coauthor) and "War Crimes and Redress: A Canadian Jewish Perspective" (coauthor), in Peter Li, ed., Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003); "The Zundel Affair," in Alan T. Davies, ed., Anti-Semitism in Canada: History and Interpretation (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992); and "Holocaust Denial Today," in Edmond Y. Lipsitz, ed., Canadian Jewry Today (Downsview, Ontario: J.E.S.L. Educational Products, 1989).

David Raab is a strategy consultant who writes frequently on the Middle East.

Haim Ramon is a Member of the Knesset from the Labor party who served as Minister of Health and Minister of Interior in the governments of Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Ehud Barak. In the early 1990s, as the elected chairman of the Histadrut General Federation of Labor, he oversaw a major restructuring of that organization, and was a leading advocate of legislation that reformed Israel's national health insurance system.

Mathan Ravid has a BA from Uppsala University, Sweden. His fields are history and the history of religions. He has done research on anti-Semitism and the swedish press in relation to Nazi Germany as well as gender roles in Rastafarian culture. Ravid has lived in Israel, Italy, and Germany.

Dr. Chanan Reich is head of the Department of Political Science at the Yizre'el Valley Academic College, visiting lecturer at the University of Haifa, and honorary research associate at the Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. He is the author of Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002).

Dave Rich is deputy director of communications at CST, which provides security and defense services to the UK Jewish community and advises the government and police on anti-Semitism and terrorism.

Ira Robinson is professor of Judaic studies in the Department of Religion of Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He is an associate of the JCPA. He is also president of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies and past president of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies. His most recent publication is Not Written in Stone: Canadian Jews, Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Canada (2003), which he coedited with Daniel Elazar and Michael Brown. His latest book, forthcoming from the University of Calgary Press, is Rabbis and Their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930.

Yosef Dov Robinson has an MA in city and regional planning from Ohio State University. He is currently studying for his MA in environmental assessment at Concordia University.

Asaf Romirowsky is an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum and manager of Israel and Middle East affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Rabbi David Rosen is director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs and director of the Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee. He is also president of the World Conference on Religion and Peace; honorary president of the International Council of Christians and Jews; founder and vice-chairman of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel; and a member of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations. He previously served as director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Israel Office; dean of the Sapir Center for Jewish Education and Culture; and professor of Jewish Studies at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. Rabbi Rosen is the former chief rabbi of Ireland, before which he served as rabbi of the largest South African Jewish congregation and a rabbinic judge on the Ecclesiastical Court.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is lecturer in Hebrew at UC Santa Cruz.

Laurence E. Rothenberg is a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The former editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal, he is the author of numerous articles, studies, and book chapters on international law, globalization, and U.S. military strategy.

Roz Rothstein serves as national director of StandWithUs and all its affiliated programs. She was born in Los Angeles, a child of Holocaust survivors. She worked for a decade with Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) as the supervisor of children's programs at the Westside Jewish Community Center. She was a practicing family therapist for two decades before becoming one of the founders of StandWithUs.

Professor Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He is the author of Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography (Oxford, 2003).

Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He is co-author, with Patrick Clawson, of Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (Palgrave, 2005).