Borscht Belt Fest 2025
Sat, Jul 26, 2025 - Sun, July. 27, 2025
Ellenville, NY
Fiction is Stranger
Tue, Sep 8, 2020
12 A.M. ET
Zoom
THANKS TO ALL WHO JOINED US!
This event was recorded and is available to readers of the Forward.
Watch here.
Michael Oren, the award-winning historian turned politician who served as Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., a member of the Knesset and a deputy minister, is publishing a new book of short stories, “The Night Archer.” Watch Jodi Rudoren, editor of The Forward, for a conversation with Ambassador Oren on the differences between America and Israel, truth and fiction, and how he sees writing as a fundamentally Jewish act.
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