Sean Savage, JNS.org In response to the Jewish community’s concern with the growth of anti-Israel bias and pro-Palestinian sympathies on college campuses, the field of Israel Studies has grown dramatically over the past decade. The newest player in that sphere of Israel Studies is the Washington, DC-based Israel Institute—a new non-partisan organization that was founded in 2012 but did not officially roll out its programs until this Tuesday. The institute is now seeking to consolidate the emerging …More

Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod has announced a new non-partisan institute of politics at the University of Chicago, which he will head in 2013 after the close of the presidential election. "If years from now I run across young people who have participated in this Institute who are now writers and staffers and yes, candidates, we'll have done our job well," Axelrod said. The University of Chicago institute will be modeled after Harvard’s Institute of Politics, which was started half a century ago …More