Tal Becker at Stephen Wise Temple: “Israel and the Jewish Soul: Understanding the Current Moment”
Wednesday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m. | Plotkin Chapel | Register
On the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 8, Stephen Wise Temple will host a special talk by Dr. Tal Becker, a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Becker will give a presentation entitled, “Israel and the Jewish Soul: Understanding the Current Moment.”
We invite our community to join us for a conversation that re-imagines the complex relationship between Israel and the Jewish people. Over the course of Jewish history, Israel has played different roles in the imagination and the reality of the Jewish people. In the 20th century, many Jews looked to Israel to make them whole and to guarantee Jewish survival. What role does Israel play today in the spiritual, physical, and psychological development of the Jewish people, as we come to terms with a new era of Jewish power and Jewish vulnerability? Dr. Becker will discuss that and more in this can’t-miss event, made possible by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation, and the Shalom Hartman Institute.
This one-time-only event will not be recorded or streamed.
Stephen Wise Temple Members: $12
General Public: $18
Tal Becker is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Legal Adviser of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a lead negotiator and drafter of the Abraham Accords. Dr. Becker has been a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, senior policy advisor to Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, a lead negotiator and drafter in both the Annapolis and Kerry peace talks, Director of the International Law Department at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, counsel to Israel’s U.N. Mission in New York, and an international law expert for the Israel Defense Forces. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and, among numerous scholarly awards, is the winner of the Rabin Peace Prize and the 2007 Guggenheim Prize for best international law book for his book “Terrorism and the State.”