Speaker | Yair Zivan |
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Chair | Carly Maisel |
Speaker | Ross Perlin |
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Chair | Samantha Ellis |
Speaker | Rabbi Dr Shlomo Brody |
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Chair | Rabbi Shlomo Levin |
Speaker | Adam Kirsch |
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Chair | Adam Taub |
Renowned for being ‘a committed centrist’, Yair Zivan joins Carly Maisel to contend how centrism can overcome socio-political polarisation.
In an era of complex global challenges, extremism and populism may offer the public simple but ultimately dangerous solutions. Yair Zivan, a longtime adviser to Yair Lapid—Israel’s opposition leader and former prime minister—proposes a different path: centrism. Zivan argues that centrism is the key to overcoming polarisation and a proven strategy for effective leadership. As editor of The Centre Must Hold, he has gathered insights from leaders including Tony Blair, Kathryn Murdoch, and Michael Bloomberg. In conversation with Carly Maisel, global CEO of The Kirsh Foundation.
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Yair Zivan is a committed centrist. He has served as foreign policy advisor to Yair Lapid, leader of Israel’s largest centrist political party since 2014 throughout his tenures as finance minister, leader of the opposition, foreign minister and prime minister of Israel. Before working for Mr. Lapid he was international media spokesperson for President Shimon Peres. His work has been published in media outlets across the world.
Over the next century, half of the 7,000+ human languages are predicted to disappear forever. In his fight to preserve them, Ross Perlin heads to the most linguistically diverse, immigration-shaped city in history: contemporary New York.
Winner of the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, Language City follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities, learning how they are maintaining their mother tongues against overwhelming odds. A joyful and illuminating exploration of a city and the world that made it. In conversation with author Samantha Ellis.
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Ross Perlin is a linguist, writer, and translator focused on exploring and supporting linguistic diversity. His book Language City was just released by Grove in the US and the UK. Since 2013 he has been Co-Director of the Endangered Language Alliance in New York, where he created the Jewish Languages Project. He also teaches linguistics at Columbia. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s, and elsewhere, and his first book Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy ignited an international conversation about unpaid work. He has an MA in Language Documentation and Description from SOAS and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bern.
What does it mean to fight an ethical war? Rabbi Dr Shlomo Brody explores this essential question as Israel defends itself on the battlefield and in the court of public opinion.
In Ethics of our Fighters he presents, for the first time, a holistic Jewish perspective on military ethics. What does Judaism say about the bombing of Dresden, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, or how to push the British out of the land of Israel? The National Jewish Book Award winning author of A Guide to the Complex looks at a century of political dilemmas and moral debates. In conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin.
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Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody is the executive director of Ematai and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post. He previously served as a senior instructor at Yeshivat Hakotel, the dean of the Tikvah Online Academy, and a junior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His writings on Jewish ethics and contemporary moral dilemmas have been cited by the Israeli Supreme Court and published in numerous scholarly journals and popular publications. A graduate of Harvard College, he received his rabbinic ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, MA in Jewish Philosophy from Hebrew University, and doctorate in law from Bar-Ilan University. His first book, A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates (Maggid), received a National Jewish Book Award.
Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch examines the trending term of ‘settler colonialism,’ and its link to the efforts for the delegitimisation of Israel.
Since 7 October, the term settler colonialism has moved from academic and activist circles into mainstream conversation. Some progressives now use it to justify Hamas’ attacks, arguing that Israel, created on land taken from an indigenous population, can never be legitimate. In On Settler Colonialism, poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch expands on his October 2023 Wall Street Journal article to examine this political ideology, which, he claims, aims to delegitimise not only Israel but also countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia. In conversation with London School of Jewish Studies lecturer Adam Taub.
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Adam Kirsch is the author of several books of poetry and criticism. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section and has written for publications including The New Yorker and Tablet. He lives in New York.