About
The YU Center for Israel Studies is the voice of academic Israel area studies at Yeshiva University.
CIS is a bridge between America and Israel--not the Israel of cable news and slogans, but the real and vital and invigorating State of Israel.
The YU Center for Israel Studies is a place to come together and explore the Old-New Land (Herzl’s phrase)-- Eretz Yisrael from Abraham to Zionism.
Our area studies approach to Israel, its land and peoples, builds on the strengths and interests of Yeshiva University’s rich faculty, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, YU Israel, YU Museum and the Gottesman Library to explore Israel in all of its complexity.
Never has our work been more important. This website presents our work and mission, our projects and successes over our history.
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