Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He served as a visiting professor of Israel Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in the fall of 2013. He will visit TBH-BE as part of our Scholars-in-Residence program to discuss on November 4th and 5th.

Halevi is a former contributing editor of the New Republic and writes for the op-ed pages of leading American newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His latest book, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, was published by Harper/Collins in October 2013. That year, it won the Jewish Book Council's Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award.

Friday:  Toward the 50th Anniversary of the Six Day War: What Like Dreamers Taught me about Israel.

Registration for dinner is now closed. Please contact the office to see if there have been any cancellations or to go on the wait list. 

Shabbat Morning:  Understanding Israel through Its Paradoxes

After luncheon:  Democracy