Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC

Gershom Gorenberg- The Second Israeli Republic: Why It's Needed and How to Get There
Washington DCJCC

The Second Israeli Republic: Why It's Needed and How to Get There

Thursday, February 24 at 7:30 pm
Free with RSVP

DPA - Gershom Gorenberg photo by Debbi CooperJournalist, blogger and Senior Correspondent for The American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg has written extensively on Israeli society, politics and history. Today he believes that Israeli democracy is increasingly under threat. Gorenberg will explain the causes of that crisis, and what Israel needs to do in order reestablish itself.

Gershom Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel’s post-1967 history, of major Israeli leaders, and of Israel-U.S. relations.

Gorenberg’s previous book, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict. He co-authored The Jerusalem Report’s 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom Friend, winner of  the National Jewish Book Award.

As a commentator on Middle East affairs and on religion, Gorenberg has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Fresh Air and on CNN and BBC. For many years an associate editor of The Jerusalem Report, he is now a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy and in Hebrew for Ha’aretz. He blogs at SouthJerusalem.com.

Gorenberg came to Israel from California in 1977.  He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Co-sponsored by New Israel Fund and J Street - DC Metro

Date:
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Address:
1529 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

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