
Fiction is Stranger

Tue, Sep 8, 2020
12 A.M. ET
Zoom
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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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