Israel's New Nation-State Law and Global Jewish Responses: A Roundtable Discussion

The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the June and Harold Patinkin Fund in Modern Israeli Studies will present a roundtable discussion on Israel's new Nation-State Law and its reception worldwide. The panel will include Orit Bashkin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago, Meir Elran, senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, Tamir Sorek, Professor of Sociology and of Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, and Sara Hirschhorn, Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University. The discussion will be moderated by Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and Director of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. A reception with kosher refreshments will follow.