Evening with Leading Author and Journalist Yossi Klein Halevi
Organization:
Osher Marin JCC
Category:
Cultural/Jewish Descent
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
3/3/2016
End Date:
3/3/2016
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
Acclaimed author, journalist and thought leader Yossi Klein Halevi addresses the topic "The Future of Israeli Democracy." Despite endless war and siege and almost a half century of occupation, Israeli democracy has persisted. But can that miracle endure? And how will Israel continue to balance its Jewish and democratic identities?
An audience Q&A and a book signing will follow the program, in association with Copperfield's Books.
This program is made possible by generous support from Brian and Caroline Lurie, in association with Congregation Rodef Sholom and The Peleh Fund.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is co-director, with Imam Abdullah Antepli, of the Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), a one-year seminar on the meaning of Israel for the Jewish people aimed at emerging leaders of the American Muslim community.
Halevi is the author of Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, published by HarperCollins in 2013. Like Dreamers was named Best Jewish Book of the Year by the National Jewish Book Council. Halevi is also author of the book, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land. The novelist Cynthia Ozick called it "a permanent masterwork."
Halevi's first book, published in 1995, was Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist. The New York Times called it "of burning importance... Mr. Halevi's achievement is to make his coming of age in marginal Brooklyn seem a drama central to Jewish life."
He is a contributing editor of the New Republic and a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of leading American newspapers. He serves as chairman of Open House, an Arab Israeli-Jewish Israeli center in the town of Ramle, near Tel Aviv.
Born in New York, Yossi Klein Halevi has a BA in Jewish Studies from Brooklyn College and a Masters in journalism from Northwestern University.
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