Dear Reader,

We wanted to make sure you didn’t miss this special opportunity to attend Peter Beinart’s book launch on Wednesday at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. Whether you can attend in-person in New York or want to watch online, we’d love to have you with us. Read on for more details, and register now to guarantee your spot.

Book Launch: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart

Wednesday, January 29th at 6:30pm ET, in-person and online:

Join us for the launch of Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. Beinart will be joined in conversation by MSNBC journalist and commentator Ayman Mohyeldin.

In Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Beinart considers how a story of persecution and victimhood has come to dominate contemporary Jewish life, even as Israel is decimating the conditions of life for millions. That narrative, Beinart argues, both warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine and erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition. After more than a year of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza—and the deployment of Jewish text and history to justify mass slaughter and starvation—Beinart insists that Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew?

Tickets to this event are free for Jewish Currents members. Non-member tickets are available for a suggested donation of $18—or for $36, get a ticket plus a signed copy of the book. Not in New York, or unable to attend in-person? Get a virtual ticket: free for members, or a suggested donation of $9 for non-members.

We hope you’ll join Peter Beinart and Ayman Mohyeldin for this special evening. Registration is required and seats are limited. Get your ticket now to guarantee your spot.

Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, author of The Beinart Notebook on Substack, a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.

Ayman Mohyeldin is the host of MSNBC’s AYMAN. Previously, he spent many years as a foreign correspondent covering the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. He has received multiple international awards including a Peabody, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the European Union’s Anna Lindh Foundation Award. He has been named Journalist of the Year by both GQ and Esquire, and in 2011 was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.

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