A New Voice for Israel

A New Voice for Israel" - J Street Boston Book Group discussion of Jeremy Ben-Ami's book J Street Boston Cost: FREE - Registration is required. February 09, 2012—06:45 PM to 08:15 PM Brookline Public Library, 361 Washington Street, Brookline, MA , Brookline, MA 02445

Please join Lynne Layton, Co-chair of the J Street Boston Programming Committee, for a group discussion of J Street founder and president Jeremy Ben-Ami's recent book, A New Voice for Israel.

Many Americans who care about Israel’s future are questioning whether the hardline stance adopted by many pro-Israel advocates really serves Israel’s best interests. In A New Voice for Israel, moderate Jeremy Ben-Ami punctures many of the myths that have guided the American Jewish community and been fundamental to how pro-Israel advocates pursue their work. Ben-Ami, whose grandparents were first-generation Zionists and founders of Tel Aviv, tells the story of his own evolution toward a more moderate viewpoint. He articulates a new direction for both American policy and the conduct of the debate over Israel in the American Jewish community.

J Street – with over 180,000 supporters nationwide and a Rabbinic Cabinet of over 650 – is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans to advocate for vigorous U.S. leadership to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to broaden debate around Israel and the Middle East in national politics and the American Jewish community.

J Street Boston, one of the largest and most active of the almost 40 local J Street communities across the country, has a growing list of over 9,000 supporters and a Rabbinic Cabinet of some 40 rabbis, cantors, and rabbinical students. J Street Boston activists are involved in home district congressional advocacy, media work, synagogue and community outreach, educational engagement, and more.