50 Years Later: Israel at War

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The Yom Kippur War, which occurred from Oct 6–25, 1973, is considered Israel’s most influential war. As Israel is at war with Hamas, experts join us to provide up-to-date analysis of the current situation and discuss how the Yom Kippur War affected the Middle East.

A musical memorial honoring the lives lost will be performed by Meital Valdman and Tal Yahalom.

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Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of the Forward. She is a veteran reporter, editor and digital innovator who spent more than two decades at The New York Times, including nearly four years as its Jerusalem bureau chief.
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Chuck Freilich
Professor Chuck Freilich, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and the Miryam Institute, served for over 20 years in Israel’s national security establishment as a senior analyst and a deputy national security adviser. After leaving government, he was a long-time senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and taught political science at Harvard College. He continues to teach political science at Tel Aviv University, Columbia, and NYU and is the senior editor of the Israel Journal for Foreign Affairs. Freilich specializes in Israel’s national security strategy and policymaking processes, U.S.-Middle East policy, and U.S.-Israeli relations.
Freilich is the author of Zion’s Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy, Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change, and Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power. He has published numerous academic articles and over 220 op-eds, appears frequently in the Israeli and international media, and speaks before a wide range of audiences. Freilich was born in New York and made aliyah to Israel as a teenager.

Shiri Goren, Senior Lector II of Modern Hebrew, Yale University.
Dr. Shiri Goren is the Director of the Modern Hebrew Program at Yale University, and a faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the and the Program in Jewish Studies. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary literature, film, and other cultural production in Israel/Palestine, second langauge aquisiton, and the pedagogy of inclusive teaching of culture.

Her work has appeared in a variety of venues including Jewish Social Studies; CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society; Hebrew Higher Education and in several edited volumes, among them: Israeli Television: global Contexts, Local Visions (2021); Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2019) and Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture. Goren is the co-editor of Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture (2013).

Yitzhak Loria
When he was 20 years old, Yitzhak Loria was a young officer in the Armored Corps in the IDF. He led his team in one of the most brutal fights at Suetz, Sinai, during the war that changed the path of his life forever. Loria grew up at K Maoz Haim and moved to NYC after the war. He studied photography at SVA and later worked in a real estate management office. He will join our panel to tell his story from the war.

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