Category: Members in the Media

We acknowledge the hard work and creativity of Evan Morris, Roya Hakakian, and Edward Kaplan on behalf of the Yale Forum for Jewish Faculty and Friends, the predecessor of YJAF. What you think you know about Israel and Israeli universities might be all wrong. It’s important to hear from Israelis. It’s important to get the facts.…

by Edieal Pinker. This study examines the New York Times coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas from 7 October 2023 through 7 June 2024. Drawing on a corpus of 1,559 news articles I document a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role…

by Edward H. Kaplan What is it about the end of the school year that brings Israel-bashing on campus to the fore?

By Edieal J. Pinker Deputy Dean for Strategy and BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research at the Yale University School of Management.

By Edward H. Kaplan Faculty who attack Israel in the classroom, disrupt Israeli lecturers, and boycott Israeli scholars are the greater danger by far.

Some cultural forensics can uncover the lives and aspirations of immigrant Jews in mid-20th century America.

by Roya Hakakian I was born and raised in Iran in a family of Jewish educators. I came of  age during the tumultuous years of the Iranian revolution, just as  Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power in 1979, and soon thereafter,  annihilated his opposition­—feminists, leftists, even the Islamic Marxists.

by Evan D. Morris  I have spent my career in academic science and believe that merit and  objectivity are essential guarantors of the scientific enterprise.  Boycotts pose the greatest threat.

by Edward H. Kaplan and Evan D. Morris We represent a group of 25 Yale faculty who have just returned from a  five-day visit to Israel. Our mission was to learn from and make  meaningful academic connections.with our Israeli counterparts. Much of  what we learned and observed astounded us.