Navigating Deep Crisis as a People: Law, Politics and Antisemitism with Dr. Masua Sagiv
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Navigating Deep Crisis as a People: Law, Politics and Antisemitism with Dr. Masua Sagiv
Tuesday, March 5 at 7pm in the Adult Lounge
This event will be in-person only
More than four months after 10/7, uncertainty, loss, and pain continue unabated in Israel and antisemitism is on the rise in North America and around the world. As the war continues and hostages are still held in Gaza, the ICJ is hearing a case against Israel for Genocide and calls for ceasefire are increasing. How has this war reshaped Jewish identity? What are the roles of law and politics in Israel, the US, and internationally? And what are the ways for American Jews and Israelis to move forward, both as separate communities and together as a people?
Dr. Masua Sagiv is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley School of Law and a Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research areas are; law and social change, gender, religion and state, Judaism & democracy in Israel, and Jewish peoplehood.
Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Dr. Sagiv was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University. She formerly taught at the Schools of Law at Bar-Ilan University and Tel-Aviv University and was awarded the Gorney Prize for Young Scholar in Public Law and the Israeli Hope in Academia prize from former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin. Her book, Radical Conservativism (in Hebrew), on the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel, will be published by the end of the year by Carmel publishing House.
Co-sponsored by the Israel & World Jewry Committee.
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