Answering Tough Questions about Israel – Breakfast and Discussion
May 19 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Half a year after the October 7 attack on Israel, we have been challenged with difficult questions and moral dilemmas. A biased media, fluctuations in US policy, and world-wide increasing antisemitism leave us with few places to find moral clarity.
To help us navigate our way, Richard Friedman, Ehud Borovoy, and Rabbi Judy Chessin will lead a discussion on how to respond to our colleagues, classmates, children, and social media critics with regard to Israel’s five- front war since the catastrophic October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Join us on Sunday, May 19, at 10:00 am in Levin Hall for a Zoom and live discussion, including coffee, bagels, and light Israeli snacks. This program is for teens, adults, Jews and non-Jews and anyone interested in discussing this timely troubling topic.
Richard Friedman, joining us on Zoom, is the former executive director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation of Alabama. He is also a journalist and associate editor of Southern Jewish Life and InSight magazines and a consultant for David Valinsky Associates, an Ohio-based fundraising and nonprofit consulting firm.
Richard has dedicated his life’s work these past six months, advocating for moral clarity in churches, national Jewish Federations and organizations, and non-Jewish political city, state, and national civic organizations and chambers of congress.
Ehud Borovoy is a local Krav Maga instructor, a group/personal fitness trainer, and a safety and self-defense instructor from Israel. He was born and raised in Israel, serving as a fitness instructor in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). Following his military service, Ehud became a fitness instructor for the Israel Police Academy, where he trained cadets to pass their fitness exams for eight years. Ehud has lived in Dayton since 2007, where he has become our go-to expert on everything Israel.
Rabbi Judy Chessin, of Dayton’s Temple Beth Or will moderate. Among her greatest achievements is the 2 grandsons she and Richard Friedman shares.