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 2:00 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, is the Jacob Potofsky Professor Emerita of Sociology at Brandeis University. While at Brandeis, she created a graduate program in Women’s Studies as well as 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. 

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Registration for this program will open at a later date.