Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza has pushed liberal American Jews to a breaking point. The progressive condemnations of Israel have made some Jews on the left feel abandoned and betrayed by their ideological allies, while actions and rhetoric from Israel’s government—the most right-wing in its history—have made others question whether their values are compatible with supporting a Jewish state that seems headed in an increasingly illiberal direction.

Leading American Jewish thinkers on Israel Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, Peter Beinart, journalist and political commentator, and Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer at the Israel Policy Forum– will offer differing perspectives on how some American Jews have been reevaluating their identities as liberals and their relationships to Israel in a conversation moderated by Senior Rabbi Aaron Potek, Executive Director of Jewish Life at Sixth & I.

From technology entrepreneur, startup investor, and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) Chris Dixon comes the New York Times bestseller Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet, a potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all.

In The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz—Nobel Prize–winning economist, chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, and former chief economist of the World Bank—dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Book signing to follow.

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