TAUBMAN SYMPOSIA IN JEWISH STUDIES:
Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak
and Promise in Israel
Daniel Gordis (Mandel Foundation, Israel)
Sunday, October 22 / 3:00 PM
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
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On July 1st, Israel
was essentially at peace. Suicide bombings had stopped,
and Ehud Olmert was planning another withdrawal, from
the West Bank. Two weeks later, Israel was embroiled
in a vicious war on two fronts. Israel emerged from the
Hezbollah War weakened, many say. Can the Jewish State
survive? Daniel Gordis, who has been called one of Israeli
most thoughtful observers, is Vice President of the Mandel
Foundation. He is the author of God
Was Not in the Fire: The Search for a Spiritual Judaism, and the award-winning
If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches
from an Anxious State. Courtesy of Borders, copies of his just-released
book, Coming Together, Coming Apart will be available
for purchase and signing at this event.
Sponsored by
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia
in Jewish Studies at UCSB, a program of the Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center; cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures,
Department of Religious Studies, Congregation Bínai
Bírith, Jewish
Federation of Greater Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara
Hillel and American Students for Israel
