This is a student-only, in-person event. On Yom Haatzmaut, Israel's 75th independence day, award-winning author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi will discuss how the current crisis tearing Israel apart is an opportunity for a reset in the relationship between American Jews and Israel. Why has the relationship become dysfunctional, and what might replace it?
Thursday, April 27, 20231:00 PM - 2:00 PMHillel at UCLA3rd Floor574 Hilgard Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute and Hillel at UCLA.
About the Speaker
Yossi Klein Halevi is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University, he co-directs the Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), which teaches emerging young Muslim American leaders about Judaism, Jewish identity and Israel.
Halevi's latest book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbors, is a New York Times bestseller, and his 2013 book, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, won the Jewish Book Council's Everett Book of the Year Award. He writes for leading op-ed pages in the US, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and is a former contributing editor to The New Republic.
His 2001 book, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, was reissued in 2019 by HarperCollins. The novelist Cynthia Ozick called At the Entrance “a permanent masterwork.” The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, called it “extraordinary and heartbreaking…a book full of wonders.” His first book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, tells the story of his teenage years as a follower of the militant rightwing rabbi Meir Kahane, and his subsequent disillusionment with Jewish radicalism. The New York Times called it “a book of burning importance.”
In 2013 he was a visiting professor of Israel Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and served as a writer in residence at the University of Illinois. He was a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem from 2004 until 2010. Born in Brooklyn, he moved to Israel in 1982, and lives in Jerusalem with wife, Sarah, who helps run a center for Jewish meditation. They have three children.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, The Shalom Hartman Institute and Hillel at UCLA.