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SUMMARY:YINR - Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Sara
 Yael Hirschhorn via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel
 of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn on Sunday\,
 March 2\, 2025 @ 10:30 am (ET) on Zoom.  Hirschhorn will be the seventh
 speaker of the 2024-2025 season in the monthly scholarly programming
 offered by WIJS at YINR.\n\nDr. Hirschhorn’s lecture is entitled\, "New
 Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism\, Jewish Power\, and Identity
 Politics from 1967 to October 7."  This lecture (based on the author's
 forthcoming book) explores the period between 1967 and 1975\, a fascinating
 chapter of history about the first parting of ways of Zionism and the
 Left\, and the unraveling of the unanimity of the American Jewish community
 over Israel (seen clearly in post- October 7th debates).  With 1967 as
 its point of departure\, Hirschhorn traces the earliest confrontations
 between two nascent\, dueling movements\, “Jewish Power” and “Black
 Power\,” following these clashes over the next decade\, culminating in
 the ‘Zionism is Racism’ debates of 1975.\n\nThe book and this lecture
 offer an original\, historical approach to the framework of a “new
 antisemitism” and a first-of-its-kind approach of centering Israel in
 discussions about Jewish privilege and power in identity politics since the
 late 1960s.\n\nDr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently Visiting Professor at
 the Ruderman Program in American Jewish Studies and Senior Researcher at
 the Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and
 Racism at the University of Haifa.  She is also a Fellow at the Jewish
 People Policy Institute\, Jerusalem.  She was previously appointed as the
 Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University
 (2018-2022) and the University Research Lecturer in Israel Studies at the
 University of Oxford (2013-2018).  Her research\, teaching\, and public
 engagement activities focus on Diaspora-Israel relations\, the
 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict\, and the Israeli Ultranationalist Movement. 
 Her first book\, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli
 Settler Movement” (Harvard\, 2017)\, was the winner of the 2018 Sami
 Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award and a finalist for the 2017
 National Jewish Book Award.  She is currently working on a new manuscript
 entitled "New Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism\, Jewish Power\, and
 Identity Politics From 1967 to October 7\," that will offer a transnational
 history of the post-Six Day War period.  Apart from her academic work\,
 Dr. Hirschhorn is an internationally-recognized public speaker\, writer\,
 educator\, media commentator\, and consultant on contemporary Jewish/Israel
 affairs.  Follow her public work at sarahirschhorn1@X (formerly known as
 Twitter).\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to women and men.  Please
 visit https://www.yinr.org/wijs.html to view the complete WIJS 2024-25
 schedule.  For more information\, to be added to the WIJS email list\, or
 for Zoom information\, please call 914-636-2215 or email: wijs@yinr.org. 
 Individuals on the WIJS mailing list will automatically receive the Zoom
 information.
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