CONGREGATION ADATH JESHURUN
ADULT EDUCATION COMMITTEE, WITH SUPPORT FROM
THE DONSKY|HUNN ENDOWMENT FUND, PRESENTS
Israel in Perspective:
Putting the Pieces Together
A spring series of expert-led encounters with Israeli politics and Jewish history
The Origins of Modern Israel, with AJ Scholar-in-Residence
Emory University Professor Ken Stein
Prof. Ken Stein is the Director of the Emory Institute for the Study of
Modern Israel (ISMI) at Emory University and the Founding President
and Chief Content Officer of the Center for Israel Education. His expertise
focuses on the origins of modern Israel, the conflict, Palestinian history,
the Arab-Israeli negotiating process, and U.S.–Israeli relations.

“In Israel, in order to
be a realist, you must
believe in miracles.”
– David Ben Gurion
THREE SESSIONS:
Friday, April 8 at 6:15 PM
Jimmy Carter: Calculated Ambivalence
In the 1980s and 1990s, Prof. Ken Stein advised former President Carter about Middle Eastern matters, traveled with him
to the region, and wrote a book with him. He played an important role in the organization and development of the Carter
Presidential Center in Atlanta. When Carter wrote the highly controversial book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, in 2006,
Prof. Stein dramatically split with Carter for his false claims about Israel and American Jews. He will speak about how Carter
and other presidents develop their attitudes toward Israel and the negotiating process, and particularly on the roots and
evolution of Carter’s involvement in peace negotiations and the growth of his animus towards Israel over the years.

Saturday, April 9 at 12:30 PM*
Intelligent Design and Not the Big Bang Theory:
The Zionist State, 1848–1949
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Go to
https://www.adathjeshurun.info/ israel-in-perspective.html
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With the use of archival and published sources of the period, Prof. Stein will discuss with us the causes and political choices
that contributed to Zionist state making before the tragedy of the Holocaust was known to the world. What roles did the
involved parties play in carving out a Jewish territory in Eretz Yisrael? What is the historical context for Israel’s unfolding
and the Palestinian dispersion in the period from 1945–1949? Join us for compelling conversation and lunch.

Sunday, April 10 at 10:00 AM*
Why Negotiations Don’t Work Anymore
Why did Arab-Israeli Negotiations work in the 1970s but Palestinian–Israeli talks are dead in the water in 2022? What criteria/
elements were present then but are not there now? Prof. Stein will touch on these reasons and others in a morning session
accompanied by brunch.

*Charges apply and these sessions include lunch and brunch respectively. $36 for AJ members; $54 for non-members;
$18 for all students.

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