The Euro-Mediterranean Institute for Inter-Civilization Dialog (EMID) proposes to promote cultural and religious dialogue between Mediterranean civilisations ; to establish a network of specialists in inter-Mediterranean dialogue ; to encourage Euro-Mediterranean creativity ; to encourage exchange between Mediterranean societies ; to work to achieve Mediterranean conviviality ; to advise charitable organisations working around the Mediterranean and provide the support necessary to achieve their original projects.
Publishing a Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Shmuel Wygoda, Israel
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths smooth”Proverbs 3:6

Description
Vision
Herzog College wishes to publish a Festschrift in honour of its former president and chair of the department of Jewish philosophy – Dr. Shmuel Wygoda, on the occasion of his retirement and 70th birthday. In addition to his work in the college, Dr. Wygoda initiated the creation of the Beth Midrash for women in Migdal Oz and worked in Jewish education in Europe (France and Italy) and North America.
Activity
Daniel Reiser is an associate professor and chairs of the department of Jewish Thought at Hertzog College. Reiser received his PhD in Jewish Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was an adjunct lecturer in the department of Jewish Thought there and was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious and Spiritual studies at Zefat College. Reiser specializes in Kabbalah, Hasidic philosophy, modern Mysticism, and theology in the Shoah. He was a Matanel Post-Doctoral Fellow in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Yad-Vashem Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jerusalem and a Claims Conference Post-Doctoral Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, New York. He is the author several books and articles (published in Hebrew, English and Polish). His book Vision as a Mirror (2014) was awarded the World Union of Jewish Studies Matanel Prize for the best book in Jewish Thought published during the years 2013-2014 and his book Sermons from the Years of Rage (2017) was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2018. His latest books are Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (2018); Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue: The Yiddish Sermons of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (2020); Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (2021)

Biography
Rabbi Daniel Reiser, PhD, grew up in Kiryat Ata, Israel, and studied there in Yavne elementary school and later on in Yavne high school in Haifa. He continued to Ma’ale Adumim Hesder Yeshiva and served as a combat medic in the IDF forces. After finishing his military service he studied both in Kollel HaMivtar in Efrat (and received rabbinic Semicha from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg ZT”L) and earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jewish Thought. Reiser is married + 6 children.