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Oct
28
2024

Rescheduled! Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan in Conversation

This Wednesday, October 30th at 7pm ET:

Join authors Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan with Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel for a conversation on the psychological and emotional dynamics affecting our respective communities, the movement for Palestinian liberation and the implications for future political horizons. How do our feelings affect our political choices? How do we defuse and redirect Jewish fear in light of its increasing weaponization? What is—and should be—the role of both mourning and rage in Palestinian and in Jewish communal politics? How do we guard against political nihilism?

This rescheduled event will be held virtually via Zoom. All existing registrations, in-person and livestream, will be converted to virtual registrations and honored. Free for Jewish Currents members with registration, $18 suggested donation for non-members.

Cosponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Hala Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists’ City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024. A columnist for The Guardian, her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. She is the honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University and is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia where she is founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice.

Arielle Angel is the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents.