Wednesday, February 7 from 4:00 to 5:30pm - in person at James Room East (Swartz Hall 120), Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA

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Join us for this joint book event with Mikhael Manekin and Shaul Magid, the second in RCPI's Spring 2024 Book Series.

Mikhael Manekin's book "End of Days" is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty. Appealing to a wealth of Jewish sources from the Bible to the present, including medieval Jewish ethical literature, rabbinic sources, Jewish law, and contemporary Israeli thought, the book presents an argument against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians and the suppression of their rights from the perspective of a modern Israeli religious Jew.

Shaul Magid's book "The Necessity of Exile" is a progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. Jewish identity today has been shaped by prior generations’ answers to these questions, and the future of Jewish life will depend on how we respond to them in our own time. Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational process, inviting us to rethink our current moment through religious and political resources from the Jewish tradition.
 

Moderated by Atalia Omer, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding; Senior Fellow in Conflict and Peace

A book sale will follow the event.

Register here - Please register by Tuesday, February 6th, at 2pm as we will be providing food. After deadline registration is still accepted.