Join your colleagues in this conference call in partnership with JTS:
- Topic: Toward a New Partnership? Diaspora Jews and Israel
- Presenter: Yossi Klein Halevi, visiting professor of Israel Studies at JTS and a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Yossi Klein Halevi is a visiting professor of Israel Studies at JTS and a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His powerful new book, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, has been called “the Israeli epic” by Michael Oren, who just completed serving as Israel’s US Ambassador. Mr. Klein Halevi is a contributing editor of the New Republic and writes for the op-ed pages of leading American newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has been active in Middle East reconciliation work and serves as chairman of Open House, an Arab Israeli-Jewish Israeli center in the town of Ramle. A native of Brooklyn and son of a Holocaust survivor, he moved to Israel in 1982.