The Roots academic council is a growing group of university instructors and private researchers from around the world who have come out publicly in support of Roots and do what they can to spread the news and support the work of Roots. Many of them have hosted our speakers at their institutions or brought their students to visit our Dignity Center.
Members
Eleftherios Michael
Chairman
Director of Diversity and International Services at the University of Baltimore
Sam Fleischacker
PhD, University of Illinois-Chicago
Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, and Professor of German Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island, USA.
Yehudah Mirsky
PhD, Brandeis University
Dr. Lisa Schirch
Toda Peace Institute, Alliance for Peacebuilding at George Mason University.
Erica Weiss
PhD, Tel Aviv University
Amy Poppinga
Associate Professor of History at Bethel University
Dr. Samuel Muli Peleg
International School, Oranim Academic College
Burton L. Visotzky
NATHAN AND JANET APPLEMAN PROFESSOR OF MIDRASH AND INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENT
Steven Fraade
Mark Taper Professor of Religious Studies
Dr. Robert Hunt
Southern Methodist University
Dr. Ben Mollov
Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Julie Cooper
Senior Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University
Dr. Gideon El'azar
Bar Ilan and Ariel
Rav
Dr. Eugene Korn
Rabbi Mel Gottlieb
President of the Academy of Jewish Religion California and Interim Dean of the Rabbinical School
“Roots is to Israel what an oasis is to the desert: a vital drop of hope. I was so touched when I
first heard about what brought together Jewish settlers and Palestinian residents of the
Gush: the acknowledgment that it is not the Land that belongs to the People, but the People
to the Land. I believe that only from such pragmatic paradigm shifts can we learn to live
together side by side with mutual respect, understanding, and perhaps more! In the current
desert of ignorance, fear, and hatred, the work of Roots' members is just like an Oasis: it
may seem like a dream, but it is very real.”