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During President Clinton’s 1992 campaign against the incumbent George H.W. Bush, his senior campaign consultant, James Carville (full disclosure: I am a big fan of Mr. Carville) implored campaign workers to focus on three simple direct messages that voters could understand. The slogans included, “Change vs. More of the Same’, ‘Don’t forget healthcare’, and the infamous, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. Carville’s focus on important issues but using real language, struck a nerve in voters and Clinton was elected President.
CanadaUnited-statesAmericansRafael-rachel-neisKate-rosenblattYeshivat-maharatRonit-stahlGilah-kletenikMijal-bitonLila-corwin-bermanJames-carvilleGeorgehw-bushProfessor Noam Pianko resigned from his post as president of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Eleven past presidents of a prominent Jewish studies organization published a letter this week expressing concerns about the recent resignation of the group’s immediate past president.
Noam Pianko, a historian who chairs the Jewish Studies department at the University of Washington, resigned from his position as president of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) on April 13 after acknowledging that he had taken part in a controversial, invitation-only gathering co-facilitated by Steven M. Cohen, a prominent sociologist accused of sexually harassing female colleagues.
The letter of concern initially published by the AJS executive committee on April 20 on the association’s website, only to be removed two days later in response to overwhelming pushback from AJS members expressed “sorrow and pain at the events surrounding the resignation of AJS president, Professor Noam Piank
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Christine Hayes
Christine Hayes, a scholar of classical rabbinic Judaism specializing in Talmudic-midrashic studies and Jewish law in late antiquity, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies, effective Feb 20.
The Sterling Professorship is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field and is one of the university’s highest faculty honors.
Hayes is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Program in Judaic Studies.
Hayes earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, which included a year of coursework at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, she was assistant professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
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