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Rav Claudia in Conversation with Author Daniel Sokatch: Can We Talk About Israel?

May 2, 2022    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Author Talk: Can we talk about Israel?
with Daniel Sokatch
May 2nd
7:00-8:30pm via Zoom
 
 

“Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?” This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis as the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews.  Sokatch is supremely well-versed on the Israeli conflict.

Sokatch’s latest book, Can We Talk About Israel?, is the story of that conflict, and of why so many people feel so strongly about it without actually understanding it very well at all. It is an attempt to grapple with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And it’s an attempt to explain why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme feelings — why it seems like Israel is the answer to “what is wrong with the world” for half the people in it, and “what is right with the world” for the other half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent, educated and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held convictions, and about which they actually know so little?

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