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Israel/US/Iran Conflict. Avi Melamed, Former Israeli Intelligence Officer, Special program on the war in Iran. March 22, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw8pQuZRJZ8
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See Ronnie Perelis on the Early Modern Crypto-Jewish Experience; Daniel Matt on The Zohar; Erwin Chemerinsky on Free Speech; Ruth Halperin-Kaddari on Women's Rights in Israel; Steve Nadler, Rembrandt and the Jews. 150 more videos. 40,000 views.
The Institute for Tolerance Studies includes the Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series, The Jewish Learning Channel, and the extensive Digital Library of books and history of and about Judaism and other religions.
The Institute for Tolerance Studies announces the open source book series, Monographs on Religion and Tolerance by Ron Duncan Hart:
- Evangelicals and MAGA: the Politics of Grievance Fifty Years in the Making – Finalist Best Book Award 2025, New Mexico Book Awards. American Jewish Press Rockower Award in Excellence in Writing about Antisemitism, 2025.
- Jews and the Arab World – Winner Best Book Award, New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards 2021.
- Sephardic Jews: History, Religion and People -- Finalist Best Book Award 2017, New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards.
- Judaism. 2015
- Islam and Muslims. 2011
- A Phoenix Rising. 2007
Academia.edu open source documents free to download.
Read these articles by Ron Duncan Hart including his multi-award-winning series on Jews and Christian Nationalism for the New Mexico Jewish Journal: “Prophetically terrifying and a great history of the Evangelical takeover of the government leading us to a U.S. theocracy,” commented one judge:
Netanyahu, Evangelicals and Israel
Jews and the Crisis of the Religious Right in America
Cambridge, Where Eramus Once Tread
Jews and Christian Nationalism,
Jews, Hate Speech, and the Incitement to Violence
Awarded: American Jewish Press Association Rockower in Antisemitism; Society of Professional Journalists, in Religion News, Religion Features and Politics; New Mexico Press Women, in Politics/Governance and Religion, for the New Mexico Jewish Journal.
For Hart’s book, Evangelicals and MAGA: The Politics of Grievance a Half Century in the Making, “Bandera,” the cover art by Gloria Abella Ballen, also won in Graphics and Illustration from the Society of Professional Journalists and NM Press Women.
Read Bonnie Ellinger's profound article, called "worthy of a wider audience," by the Albuquerque Journal, about her years on an idealistic kibbutz and about Nir Oz: With Communal Spirit, Nir Oz will rise again WINNER, 1st Place, Society Professional Journalists, Religion Feature, 2026.
AMIR TIBON now Sami Rohr Finalist 2026. On April 6th Amir Tibon, "The Gates of Gaza" Haaretz journalist who survived Oct. 7th with his family at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was interviewed by Bonnie Ellinger. Watch the video and read the transcript here: https://www.nmjewishjournal.com/watch-listen-and-read-the-interview-transcript-the-gates-of-gaza-israeli-journalist-and-author-amon-tibon-with-bonnie-ellinger/
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