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Webinar on Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, Peter Beinart argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose story will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew?

Title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time

Speaker: Peter Beinart, Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

Moderator: Assaf Kfoury, Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, member of the BLS Steering Committee, and member of IUS organizing committee.

For further details and to register for the webinar, click here.

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