Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky is the head of the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center
for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, and the director of the Ruderman Program for American-
Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa. In recent years, he has been a visitings scholar at the
University of Chicago Divinity School, and a Shalom Hartman Institute of North America Kogod
Center research fellow. His research interests include Jewish-American history and religious thought,
Israel and World Jewry relations, Antisemitism in the US, and the intersection of Antisemitism,
technology and AI. His current work focuses on liberal-conservative bridge building in Israel and
the Jewish world and overcoming polarization.