The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Evolution of Zionist Thought, Arab Nationalism and Political Islamism, Middle East History, Middle East Historiography, History of Jerusalem or the Temple Mount, Political Philosophy

The Temple Mount: Juncture of Beliefs, History and Politics; The “Art” of Zealots: The Jewish-Israeli Case; Jewish Women and Revolutionary Movements, Liberal or Zionist?

Jewish Revolts in the Ancient World and During the Time of Jesus; Jews, Pagans and Christians in Ancient Palestine; Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism; Higher Education in Israel; History of Israel

Jews in American Politics, Israel American Relations, Israel’s Changing Collective Identity, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; a Historical Perspective, American Christian Leaders and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry

Israel and the Arab Spring; War and Society in Israel; The 1948 War; History of Jewish-Arab Relations

The Jewish Concept of Homeland: God Given or Originally Grounded?; Jewish Attachment to the Land from Biblical Times to Today; Judah Halevi’s Kuzari and the Modern Concept of Aliyah

Jewish Music; Israeli Music; Music in the Holocaust; Israeli Cultural History

War of the Word: How Language Has Been Hijacked in the Campaign Against Israel’s Legitimacy

Classical Islam in the Service of Contemporary Issues; Islam and Gender; the Question of Jerusalem in Islam; Muslim Minorities in the West; Qur'an Hermeneutics