Israel: Challenging the Status Quo

Challenging the status quo can be risky business, especially

in the turbulent Middle East. What price is there to pay for questioning

authority? Three “challengers” of Israel discuss this topic and their

experiences at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center (333 Nahanton

Street) in Newton on Thursday, March 6 at 7:30pm.

Participating

in the discussion will be

Admiral

Ami Ayalon (pictured), former head of the Shin Bet - Israel’s domestic intelligence

service - who criticized Prime Minister Ehud Barak when peace treaty

negotiations with Yassar Arafat collapsed in 2000; Gershom Gorenberg, an Israeli

journalist and author of The Unmaking of Israel (2011); and Talia

Sasson, a special legal adviser to Ariel Sharon's government who wrote

"The Sasson Report" in 2005 that concluded that Israel had discretely

diverted money to build West Bank settlements that were illegal under Israeli

law.

The discussion will be moderated by Leonard Fein, founding

editor of Moment Magazine, author and

essayist whose columns have appeared in The

New York Times, The New Republic,

and The Nation.

The

event is part of the Jonathan Samen Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations Discussion

Series at the JCC – a program of the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts. Cost

is $18. Students and seniors: $15. For tickets, contact 617-965-5226, boxoffice@jccgb.org or visit www.bostonjcc.org/artsevents.