📍 Place: Boston University 🗓️ Date: February 28, 2025 ⏰ Time: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
2025 Conference on the Jewish Left
Founded in 2024, Boston University’s annual “Conference on the Jewish Left” gathers together scholars, students, and global partners of the Jewish left. At a time when foundational principles of justice and democracy are under attack, the conference provides an educational space to bridge the academic-community divide, and to explore the Jewish left’s values, institutions, and impact. The conference aims to tackle pressing public questions and to empower the next generation of leaders to make a real-world difference in the critical challenges facing humanity and the earth today.
Attendees can register to attend the conference in-person or via livestream.
Schedule
8:15 – 9:00 - Registration
9:00 – 9:10 - Welcoming Remarks, Jeremy Menchik
9:10 – 10:10 - Simone Zimmerman – “Nakba Denial and the Future of American Judaism” Discussant: Shaul Magid
10:20 – 11:20 - Omer Bartov – “Israel’s War in Gaza and the Question of Genocide” Discussant: Elyse Semerdjian
11:30 – 12:30 - Adam Seligman – “Personal Reflections on the Israeli Left” Discussant: Anat Biletzki
12:30 – 01:30 - Lunch
01:30 – 02:30 - Yousef Munayyer – “Palestine in the Time of Monsters” Discussant: Sarah Anne Minkin
02:40 – 03:40 - Audrey Sasson (Jews For Racial and Economic Justice), Joanna Ware (Jewish Liberation Fund) Discussant: Rabbi Becky Silverstein
03:50 – 4:50 - Molly Crabapple – “Here Where We Live is Our Country- the story of the Jewish Labor Bund” Discussant: Hasia Diner
04:50 – 05:00 - Welcoming Shabbat & Ramadan
Rabbi Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein
05:00 – 06:30 - Dinner
06:30 – 08:00 - Concert with Magid Ensemble
For speaker bios & sponsors list: 2025 Conference on the Jewish Left | Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs: CURA