Israel: Challenging the Status Quo

Thu 6 Mar, 7:30 pm. Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton Street, Newton, 02459. JCCs of Greater Boston, 617-965-5226. $18. Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston - [website][email][events]

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, 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 t