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May 4, 2014 @ 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
For Readers of “Like Dreamers”: Yossi Klein Halevi (BOR)
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, together with Jewish Federation Los Angeles and the Board of Rabbis of Southern California present
Have You Read “Like Dreamers” by Yossi Klein Halevi?
If the answer is “Yes,” please join us for a casual conversation with the acclaimed author.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
University Synagogue
11960 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
NOTE: This is not a book talk or signing. It is a conversation for those who have read the book beforehand. Space is extremely limited and available on a first-come basis.
You are welcome to stay after this program for the iEngage Community Roundtable, also with Yossi Klein Halvei, from 4:00-6:00 PM
Questions? Contact the Board of Rabbis, 323-761-8600.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a member of the Institute’s iEngage Project, and a contributing editor to The New Republic.His first book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, was published in 1995. In 2001 he published,At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land. A Hebrew version of that book was published in 2006 by Shalom Hartman Institute.
Yossi is a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of leading North American newspapers. He is active in reconciliation efforts between Muslims and Jews and serves as Chairman of Open House, an Arab-Jewish coexistence center in the town of Ramle, near Tel Aviv.
Yossi’s latest book, Like Dreamers: The Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award for 2013.
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