We discuss how Judaism is and is not portrayed in fiction today and about the influence of religion, spirituality, community and assimilation on today’s Jewish author ...
Journalist Dina Kraft, coauthor of My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds, shares stories from Hannah Pick-Goslar’s memoir. ...
Panelists from Broadway as they discuss the rise of antisemitism and Broadway’s response through recent and current productions. ...
Join Maryam Chishti, Co-Executive Director of The LUNAR Collective and Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, the first Chinese-American rabbi and senior rabbi at Temple Sinai in Oakland, CA, for a frank conversation with former public radio host Michael Krasny about the joys and struggles of being both Jewish and Asian. ...
Join Bep’s son Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, authors of the new book The Last Secret Of The Secret Annex, for a conversation with journalist Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor, about Bep’s relationship with the Franks, the burden of keeping their secret and other previously untold ...
Join historian Craig Nelson, author of the new book "V is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II," for a conversation about how FDR’s leadership transformed the United States and helped defeat the Nazis. ...
“And the Bride Closed the Door” is a broad comedy about a bride who refuses to go forward with her wedding ceremony, sowing havoc. The book captures a segment of Mizrahi society not often featured in Israeli fiction. ...
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, talks about his new book, Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century, which offers new insights on how Judaism can, will and must continue to change and adapt as a toolkit to help people bring meaning to every aspect of their lives. ...
If All the Seas Were Ink is a memoir of a young, recently divorced American-Israeli, living in Jerusalem, whose personal struggles lead her to take on the practice of Daf Yomi, reading a page from the Talmud every day for seven years. Kurshan’s inspiring memoir about learning how to put ...
Join Dina Porat, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and former Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, for a discussion about her latest book Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge. ...
Zimler discusses life as an American Jew in Portugal, how Jewish history had been erased from Portuguese memory and the role of generational trauma in our lives today. ...
Join our distinguished panelists to learn why we should be paying attention to the rise of Christian nationalism and what can be done about it. ...