Tomer Persico

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May 15, 2021, 5:07 AM

I grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab city. Violence there frightens me more than rockets from Gaza.

Arabs and Jews protest the escalating violence and riots between the Arab and Jewish population, at Hefer Valley, Northern Israel, on May 14, 2021. Photo by Chen Leopold/FLASH90

The long process of healing requires an honest attempt at a more equitable relationship between the state and its Arab citizens

Feb 28, 2018, 2:22 PM

The leftist, anti-humanist New Right in Israel and America

A treatise on the 'leftist' yet anti-humanist attitudes of the ascendant Right in Israel and America

Sep 17, 2014, 6:11 PM

Of Uman, community and the 21st century ‘I’

Forget rugged individualism: truly celebrating the Jewish holidays means doing so with others

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About Me

Dr. Tomer Persico is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Shalom Hartman Institute Bay Area Scholar in Residence.