Conference at Cambridge University

Summer 2012

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RESEARCH
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STUDENTS & GRADUATES
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TECHNOLOGY
Digital University: Mobile Digital Books Project
Is Technology Tromping the ABC's?

INITIATIVES - LANGUAGE
Arabic-Speaking Students Study in Arabic
Sao Paulo University Students Learn About Israeli Society in Spanish

EVENTS
Graduation Ceremonies
The 7th Chais Conference
Evening in Honor of Dov Lautman
Visit by NASA Astronaut, William S. McArthur, Jr.
Exhibition: "Fireworks Blossoming in the Winter"
"Psychic Numbing of Genocide"

INTERNATIONAL
Conference at Cambridge University
Cambridge in Ra'anana
American Friends: The Open University Foundation

HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Milly Perry
Prof. Yoav Yair
Prof. Yoram Eshet
Aviel Atias
Laurence Berry
Edna Tal
SuperBrands Israel
Prof. Judith Gal-Ezer
Co-editors: Elissa Allerhand, Ilene Bloch-Levy Photographer: Gideon Markowitz Graphic Designer: Laura Grinberg Web Manager: Batsheva Engelberg-Behr Web Master: Sonia Pechersky

INTERNATIONAL
Conference at Cambridge University Prof. Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman head of the Open University's Research Center on Jews, Christians, Muslims: Social and Cultural Encounters. Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron, President of the Open University, headed a group of six leading researchers from Open University's from the Open University's Jews, Christians, Muslims: Social and Cultural Encounters Research Center at a conference held at Cambridge University. The joint conference held by the Woolf Institute Studying Relations between Jews, Christians and Moslems was in cooperation with the Open University's research center. The Woolf Institute at Cambridge is named for Lord Harry Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and Chancellor of the Open Universeity of Israel. Prof. Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman head of the Open University's research center, spoke on the subject of polygamy customs of Jews in Yemen and Arab polygamy customs and the Israeli perspective on the issue. Ophir Munz-Manor spoke of the connections between liturgical poetry and mosaic pavements in late antique churches and synagogues. Dr. Ishay Landa lectured on a Judeo-Christian critique of Nietzsche's concept of space; a lecture on Medieval Jewish and Christian poetry; Mustaf Kabha on "The Fall of the Arab Muslim State in Spain and its perception in contemporary Arab Historiography" and Prof. Haggai Erlich on Christianity, Islam and Judaism in Ethiopia. A follow-up conference of the Open University and Woolf Institute is scheduled to take place in June 2013 at the Open University's Ra'anana campus in Israel.

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Conference at Cambridge University

Prof. Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman head of the Open University's Research Center on Jews, Christians, Muslims: Social and Cultural Encounters.

Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron, President of the Open University, headed a group of six leading researchers from Open University's from the Open University's Jews, Christians, Muslims: Social and Cultural Encounters Research Center at a conference held at Cambridge University. The joint conference held by the Woolf Institute Studying Relations between Jews, Christians and Moslems was in cooperation with the Open University's research center. The Woolf Institute at Cambridge is named for Lord Harry Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and Chancellor of the Open Universeity of Israel.

Prof. Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman head of the Open University's research center, spoke on the subject of polygamy customs of Jews in Yemen and Arab polygamy customs and the Israeli perspective on the issue. Ophir Munz-Manor spoke of the connections between liturgical poetry and mosaic pavements in late antique churches and synagogues. Dr. Ishay Landa lectured on a Judeo-Christian critique of Nietzsche's concept of space; a lecture on Medieval Jewish and Christian poetry; Mustaf Kabha on "The Fall of the Arab Muslim State in Spain and its perception in contemporary Arab Historiography" and Prof. Haggai Erlich on Christianity, Islam and Judaism in Ethiopia.

A follow-up conference of the Open University and Woolf Institute is scheduled to take place in June 2013 at the Open University's Ra'anana campus in Israel.