Join for a rare and powerful evening with Yossi Klein Halevi, one of the most vital and inspiring Jewish voices of our time. A senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor and Like Dreamers, Halevi offers profound insight into Israeli society, Jewish identity, and the quest for coexistence.
At a time when many are asking hard questions—about Israel, Zionism, antisemitism, and the Jewish future—Halevi brings clarity, compassion, and a deep sense of spiritual and moral purpose.
This is more than a lecture—it’s an opportunity to be in meaningful conversation with a thinker who helps us imagine what comes next.
Yossi will be in conversation with Congregantion Emanu-El' Senior Rabbi Ryan Bauer.
About Yossi Klein Halevi:
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University, he co-directs the Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), which teaches emerging young Muslim American leaders about Judaism, Jewish identity and Israel. Yossi is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor” and co-host with Donniel Hartman of the Institute’s award-winning podcast, For Heaven’s Sake. He is the author of “Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem” and “Divided a Nation,” which won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His other works include the book, "At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims" and "Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist" which tells the story of his teenage years as a follower of the militant rightwing rabbi Meir Kahane, and his subsequent disillusionment with Jewish radicalism. The New York Times called it “a book of burning importance.”
