2025-2026 Events & Programs

Date: Monday, September 29, 2025

Time: 12:30pm - 01:45pm

Location: Virtual

The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture

Join a discussion between Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and a leading expert on Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global Jewish affairs, and Nancy Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director, for an update on life in Israel almost two years after the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ongoing war in Gaza. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Halevi has been based in Jerusalem for decades, working as a writer, editor, and podcaster. Known for his spiritually informed, keen observations of Israeli politics and society, Halevi is widely respected for his insights and expertise on the latest ideas about Israel and Jewish life.
12:30 PM Eastern Time
7:30 PM Israel TIme
9:30 AM Pacific Time

Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and one of the most prominent lecturers in North America on Israeli issues. His 2013 book, Like Dreamers, won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His most recent book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (2018), was a New York Times bestseller and has appeared in a dozen languages. He is currently writing a book about the meaning of Jewish survival. Halevi has also written for leading op-ed pages in North America and is a former contributing editor to the New Republic. He co-directs the Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), a unique program that has taught more than 150 emerging young Muslim leaders in North America about Judaism, Jewish identity, and Israel. Together with Donniel Hartman, Halevi is co-host of the Hartman Institute’s podcast “For Heaven’s Sake,” the number one Jewish podcast in the English-speaking world.