Eilah Goldberg was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to pursue a master’s degree in Israel Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As such she will conduct research examining the changing demographics of American Jewish immigration to Israel.

Eilah’s academic and professional work focuses on the Arab Israeli conflict, Israeli history, and Jewish world history.

Eilah graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a BA in history and a minor in Jewish Studies. During her time at UMBC, she served as the Chabad student president, was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and received the John Bell–Clifford Maas Prize for Academic Excellence, awarded to students with the highest overall academic record in the Department of History.

Additionally, Eilah was published in UMBC’s Bartleby journal and won the award for Best Fiction Entry with her piece based on Jewish Early-Modern European women. During her sophomore year, she also studied abroad at University College London in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.