The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance & End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel

Full event title: Religion, Conflict, and Peace Book Series Spring 2024: The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance & End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel
This joint book talk will feature “The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance” by Shaul Magid and “End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel” by Mikhael Manekin.
“The Necessity of Exile” is a progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile. Magid invites us to rethink our current moment through religious and political resources from the Jewish tradition.
“End of Days” is a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew and former combat officer in the IDF. Manekin calls on fellow Israelis to examine the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.
Featuring:
- Shaul Magid, Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative Affiliate, and Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College
- Mikhael Manekin, Religion and Public Life Fellow in Conflict and Peace, and director of the Alliance Fellowship program
- Moderated by Atalia Omer, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding
This event took place on February 7, 2024.
For more information: hds.harvard.edu

[@siangibby5771]

I appreciate this nuanced conversation and engagement with the questions from the audience. Both these books are must-reads if we are to reach justice and security in Israel Palestine. We have to prioritize compassion for the Other, not only Israelis and Palestinians, but those within our group with whom we don't initially agree. We WILL fail if we don't learn to broaden our outlook, and these writers are offering us assistance in that broadening. Todah.

[@dr.kamali7982]

Interspirituality studies in global higher education can redeem this world #gita4peace

[@Peter-ov6xh]

Permanent "exile" doesn't sound like a healthy state and sounds like it would be particularly harmful when you have many people who view themselves as "exiles" in positions of economic/cultural/political power.

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Every Jew has the moral obligation to serve in the IDF.

[@papabear4040]

Taking heads who are leftists.