7:00 p.m. Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Memorial and Yizkor services, led by Rabbi Rachlis and Cantor Braier, during which UCI Prof. Jeffrey Kopstein will discuss his survey “Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism On UC Campuses: The Latest Post-October 7 Survey.”

Jeffrey Kopstein is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Irvine. In his research, Prof. Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence, voting patterns of minority groups, antisemitism, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society, paying special attention to cases within European and Russian Jewish history. These interests are central topics in his latest books, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust and Politics, Memory, Violence: The New Social Science of the Holocaust.

Prof. Kopstein joined the faculty at UCI, following professorial posts at the University of Toronto and University of Colorado at Boulder. His work has been featured widely in academic journals and in the popular press, including pieces in The Washington Post and The Atlantic. He was awarded the Ina Levine Invitational Fellowship to continue his research on social scientific approaches to the Holocaust. Prof. Kopstein’s expertise in Jewish studies and political science serves as the foundation for the School of Social Sciences’ interest in developing an Israel studies program that creates and sustains cross-regional and interdisciplinary research discussions. Sponsored by Dr. Miriam Piven Cotler

Our Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the Shuster Family, in honor of Itai Shuster, who became a Bar Mitzvah in April.

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