Name Yossi Halevi Role Author | ||
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Books Like Dreamers: The Story, At the entrance to the Garde, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist | ||
Education Northwestern University | ||
Yossi klein halevi like dreamers what i learned about israel s left right divide
Yossi Klein Halevi (born 1953) is an American-born Israeli author and journalist.
Contents
- Yossi klein halevi like dreamers what i learned about israel s left right divide
- Yossi klein halevi israeli and palestinian narratives
- Biography
- Journalistic and literary career
- Political activism
- Film
- Published works
- References
Yossi klein halevi israeli and palestinian narratives
Biography
Halevi was born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn in New York City in a Jewish family. His father was a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor. After attending high school at Yeshiva University High School for Boys (Brooklyn Branch), he completed a BA in Jewish Studies in Brooklyn College in 1978, and completed his MA in Journalism at Northwestern University. In 1982, he moved to Israel with his wife Sarah (née Lynn Rintoul).
Journalistic and literary career
He worked as a senior writer for the bi-weekly magazine The Jerusalem Report from its founding until 2002. Halevi wrote a column for The Jerusalem Post, and wrote regularly on Israeli issues for the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times, and occasionally for the New York Times and Washington Post. His first book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, was published in 1995. In it, he tells of his youthful attraction to, and subsequent break with, the militant Rabbi Meir Kahane.
In 2001 he published At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land. The book tells of his spiritual journey as a religious Jew into the worlds of Christianity and Islam in Israel. Halevi joined the prayers and meditations in mosques and monasteries, in an attempt to experience the devotional lives of his non-Jewish neighbors and to create a religious language of reconciliation among the three monotheistic faiths.
Halevi is a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Jerusalem-based research institute and educational center. He is Israel correspondent and contributing editor of The New Republic. He is a lecturer on American and Canadian campuses, focusing on politics and culture in Israel. In the fall of 2013, he began teaching at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
Halevi's book Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation was released by HarperCollins in October 2013.
Political activism
Halevi has been active in Middle East reconciliation efforts, and serves as chairman of Open House, an Arab-Jewish educational project in the working class town of Ramle. He was a founder and board member of the now-defunct Israeli-Palestinian Media Forum, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian journalists.
Film
In 1985, the documentary film Kaddish, produced by Steve Brand, which focuses on his relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, was released. The Village Voice called it one of the best ten films of the year.