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Harvard Hillel's Riesman Forum on Politics and Policy

The Riesman Forum on Politics and Policy is generously sponsored by the Mandell and Madeleine Berman Foundatoin in memory of Robert Riesman.

  • How Should We Talk About Israel?

    Tuesday, December 7, 2021


    Noa Tishby is an Israeli actress, writer, producer and activist. Daniel Sokatch is an American activist, serving since 2009 as CEO of the New Israel Fund.

  • Changes in Israel and the Rising American Jewish Generation

    Thursday, February 9, 2019


    Harvard Hillel welcomed Daniel Gordis and Peter Beinart for a discussion of next-generation diaspora Jewry and its relationship with Israel: where is it now, and where is it going? The discussion was introduced by Rabbi Jonah Steineberg, Ph.D., Executive Director of Harvard Hillel, and moderated by Lauren Cohen Fisher, Director of Israel & Campus Engagement at Harvard Hillel. 

  • Tell Me a Story with a Happy Ending

    Monday, February 26, 2018

    In 2014, Sayed Kashua, an Arab-Israeli writer, and Etgar Karet, a Jewish-Israeli writer, published a series of letters to one another in The New Yorker. During Harvard Hillel's 4th annual Riesman Forum on Politics and Policy, they discuss their apprehensions and hopes regarding a country that they have both called home.