Mikhael Manekin and Dr. Shaul Magid: End of Days & The Necessity of Exile

Welcome to An afternoon with authors Mikhael Manekin & Dr. Shaul Magid! Join us for a community discussion with local authors Mikhael Manekin and Dr. Shaul Magid regarding their research, experiences and reflections post the October 7th attack, and their most recent publications - Event open to all!
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**Street parking is available
Mikhael Manekin is the director of the Alliance Fellowship program, an Arab-Jewish political network in Israel, and a Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace at the Harvard Divinity School. He is the former executive director of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli military veterans’ group focused on educating the public as to the results of military control of the West Bank and Gaza. Mikhael is one of the leaders of the Faithful Left movement, a movement of religious Jews promoting equality through the language of Jewish faith and tradition. His book End of Days, Ethics, Tradition and Power in Israel, published in Hebrew in 2021 was recently translated and published in English .Mikhael will be discussing his book, End of Days Ethics, Tradition and Power in Israel.
Dr. Shaul Magid is Visiting Professor of Modern Judaism and senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. He was previously a professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. His lasts two books are Meir Kahane:The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) and The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance. (2023). Shaul received his rabbinical ordination in Jerusalem and his PhD from Brandeis University. He will be discussing his latest book, The Necessity of Exile, a collection of essays focused on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.
This conversation is sponsored by the Brookline Peace Coalition and the Brookline Booksmith
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More about the books:
End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty. Appealing to a wealth of Jewish sources from the Bible to the present, including medieval Jewish ethical literature, rabbinic sources, Jewish law, and contemporary Israeli thought, the book presents an argument against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians and the suppression of their rights from the perspective of a modern Israeli religious Jew. [Academic Studies Press]
In The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, celebrated rabbi and scholar Shaul Magid offers an essential contribution to this intergenerational process, inviting us to rethink our current moment through religious and political resources from the Jewish tradition. On many levels, Zionism was conceived as an attempt to “end the exile” of the Jewish people, both politically and theologically. In a series of incisive essays, Magid challenges us to consider the price of diminishing or even erasing the exilic character of Jewish life. A thought-provoking work of political imagination, The Necessity of Exile reclaims exile as a positive stance for constructive Jewish engagement with Israel|Palestine, antisemitism, diaspora, and a broken world in need of repair. [Ayin Press]