J Street and a Settler in Conversation
Join us for a conversation with Alan Elsner, J Street's Special Advisor to the President, and Yishai Fleisher, the spokesperson for the Jewish settlement in Hebron in the West Bank. Alan and Yishai will be sharing their competing visions for supporting the state of Israel.
Thursday, March 30, 7pm | Corwin Family Sanctuary, Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
(300 N. Clark Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90211)
This event is part of the Behrendt Conversation Series hosted by Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
Alan Elsner has had a long career at the top ranks of American and international journalism prior to joining J Street. As State Department and later White House correspondent for Reuters News Agency, Elsner traveled the world with Secretaries of State and was on first name terms with presidents and vice presidents. His sharp questioning during the Rwanda genocide forced the United States to change its policy and was later highlighted in the Hollywood movie “Hotel Rwanda.” As Reuters National Correspondent, Elsner was the agency’s chief writer on 9/11/2001. Elsner is the author of two novels and two works of non-fiction.
Yishai Fleisher is the international spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hebron as well as Israeli broadcaster and a frequent columnist for major news and analysis websites - featured on CNN, Al Jazeera, Fox, Vice, Breitbart Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post and Israel HaYom. He holds a JD from Cardozo Law and rabbinic ordination from Kollel Agudat Achim. Yishai serves as a Paratrooper in the an elite IDF battlefield reserve unit. He speaks Hebrew, English and Russian, and lives on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.