Lioness — Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ January 16-19, watch the film Golda’s War Diaries on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, January 18 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

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Francine Klagsbrun, left, is a celebrated author whose book, Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel, won the National Jewish Book Award 2017 Book of the Year prize. Her most recent book, Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream, received the Natan Notable Book Award for 2024. She has been a regular columnist for The Jewish Week and Moment magazine, and is on the editorial boards of Lilith and Hadassah magazines. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek and Ms. magazine. Klagsbrun holds an honorary doctorate degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She lives in New York City.

Dr. Shulamit Reinharz, right, moderator, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. At Brandeis she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for the study of the intersection between Jews and gender. She was born in Amsterdam and grew up in the United States with intermittent stays in Israel. She is the author or editor of sixteen books, including the recent 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World and Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir. She has participated in numerous programs of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.

Annette Miller, left, is an acclaimed stage and film actress who has wowed audiences in roles from Golda Meir to Maria Callas. She has appeared on Broadway and has been awarded two Elliot Norton awards, including a Special Citation in 2024 for her body of work and her sold-out reprisal of Golda’s Balcony at Shakespeare & Company and at Boston’s Emerson Paramount Center. She received the 2024 Boston Theater Critics Association Elliot Norton Award Special Citation for a legacy of defining performances of strong women. She received her BA and BFA from Brandeis University and is a resident Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center.

Dr. Jud Newborn, guest host, was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork as a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.

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Registration for this program is closed.