Israel and the Diaspora: Jewish Connectivity in a Changing World

Robert A. Kenedy (Ph.D. York University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University, Canada. He has written articles about immigration and resettlement in Canada focusing on integration into Canadian society. Professor Kenedy has been studying ethnic identity issues since 1989, with much of his research focusing on collective identity, ethnic communities, Diasporas, and identity formation through resettlement in host countries. He has written refereed scholarly works in the areas of identity, antisemitism, multiculturalism, interculturalism, civic participation, immigration, and resettlement. Most recently, he has been researching Lusophone resettlement in Canada, the French Jewish Diaspora, campus BDS, and the new antisemitism.Carl S. Ehrlich (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Departments of History and Humanities, and Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto. Among his areas of interest are synchronic, diachronic, and contextual approaches to the biblical text and Israelite civilization. His recent publications include the (co-)edited collections From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature (2009) and Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber (2013). Current projects include a cultural history of Moses and a commentary on Chronicles.Uzi Rebhun (Ph.D. Hebrew University) is Professor and Head, Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics, at the A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations. His areas of interest are Jewish migration, Jewish identification, the Jewish family, Israel-Diaspora relations.  His most recent book (Jews and the American Religious Landscape) was published in 2016 by Columbia University Press.

• Israel at 70 and World Jewry: One People or Two?.- Israel-Diaspora Relations in the 21st Century: Continuities and Discontinuities.- The Evolution of North American Jews’ Relations with Israel from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class of 1994-95 (5755).- The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Potential Impact on Jewish Young Adults’ Relationship to Israel and Jewish Identity.- Segmented and Transnational Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora.- Keeping the Flame Alive: The Formation of Transnational Identities among Jewish Emigrants from Israel.- Holocaust, Memory, Migration: The Burden of Catastrophe among Israelis in Germany.- The Faculty Assault on Academic Freedom (USA).- Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, and Canada in Context.- Jewish Students’ Experiences in the Era of BDS: Exploring Jewish Lived Experience and the New Antisemitism on Canadian Campuses.- Is Anti-Israelism Antisemitism? Evidence from Great Britain.- TheBDS Movement in Australia.- Epilogue: Summary, Discussion, and Looking Beyond.