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ONLINE EVENTS
TUE 28 FEB 10.30–14.30
The Future Face of the Jewish State
Sponsored by Dangoor Education
Lea Taragin-Zeller | Chair: Sally Berkovic
Israel today is navigating internal struggles over what kind of
Jewish state it wants to be—a debate that is playing out through
tensions over reproduction. As demographic forecasts show that by
2065 Haredim will constitute a third of Israel’s Jewish population,
Israeli policy makers have attempted to manage the rapid increase
through steep cutbacks in child benefits. Lea Taragin-Zeller of
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers an overview of these
Jewish ‘womb-wars’ while providing an ethnographic account of
Orthodox reproduction today, in the face of vast policy changes. In
conversation with author Sally Berkovic.
Online
10.30–11.30
FREE
Meir Kahane: Jewish Radical
In Association with the Rabin Chair Forum
of The George Washington University
Shaul Magid | Chair: Anshel Pfeffer
Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the
counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish
liberalism. In the US he founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968
and then the ultranationalist KACH after his immigration to Israel in
1971, before his assassination in 1990.
The incisive new biography from Dartmouth College Professor of
Jewish Studies Shaul Magid traces the journey of this quintessentially
American figure, from a fervent supporter of Israel to a belief that the
Zionist project had failed. In conversation with journalist and author
Anshel Pfeffer.
Online
12.00–13.00
£7.50
Goodbye Eastern Europe
In Association with the Rabin Chair Forum
of The George Washington University
Jacob Mikanowski
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map, but as an idea. Today
it can call to mind a jumble of post-Soviet states paved over with C&A
and McDonald’s. It could be described as a group of 20 nations, but
in Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
journalist Jacob Mikanowski asks why, given that for most of their
history, they weren’t nations at all. He joins us to discuss his eulogy
for a world we are losing, a vanishing culture of polytheism, vampires,
sacred groves, and movable borders.
Online
13.30–14.30
£7.50
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