Events

Join us for a conversation with philosopher, director, and author Bernard-Henri Lévy on his new book Israel Alone, a passionate and outraged protest about the loneliness of Israel and the tragedy of October 7. Starting with Lévy’s eyewitness account the day after the pogroms and weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what’s at stake for Israel and the world.

Conversation moderated by Dr. Edna Friedberg, US Holocaust Memorial Museum historian. Reception to follow. If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to Rabbi Atara at acohen@edcjcc.org.

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Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French philosopher, director of eight films, and author of forty-eight books. Lévy is one of the West’s foremost intellectuals, defending democracy and humanism against totalitarianism and fascism. His recent books include The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope (2021), The Virus in the Age of Madness (2020), The Empire and the Five Kings (2019), The Genius of Judaism (2017), American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (2005), and Who Killed Daniel Pearl? (2003). Lévy has made films on the war in Bosnia; Libya; Iraqi Kurdistan besieged by ISIS; and Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Ukraine. Lévy’s work as an intellectual, a writer, and a film-maker is intertwined with humanitarian activism. For fifty years, Lévy has reported on the world’s “forgotten wars” and devoted numerous books, films, and articles to these crises. Lévy has participated in various peace plans and contacts with Israeli leaders from Menachem Begin to Shimon Peres and from Ariel Sharon to Yitzak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.