Jewish Currents Magazine: ‘Volatile Emotions: Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan in Conversation’
October 21 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Join authors Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan with Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel for a conversation on the psychological and emotional dynamics affecting our respective communities, the movement for Palestinian liberation and the implications for future political horizons.
How do our feelings affect our political choices? How do we defuse and redirect Jewish fear in light of its increasing weaponization? What is—and should be—the role of both mourning and rage in Palestinian and in Jewish communal politics? How do we guard against political nihilism?
This event will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St. in Manhattan. Doors will open at 6:30pm ET and the event will begin at 7:00pm ET. Seating is first come, first served. Adler Hall is accessible for wheelchair users without prior arrangements. Please reach out to events@jewishcurrents.org with any accessibility questions or concerns.
Free for Jewish Currents members, $18 suggested donation for non-members. Livestream will be available, please indicate your preference for in-person or remote attendance when registering!
In-person attendance is FREE for Society Members. Please email programs@nysec.org to RSVP.
Co-sponsored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
Speakers
Hala Alyan is the author of the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists’ City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024. A columnist for The Guardian, her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. She is the honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University and is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia where she is founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice.
Arielle Angel is the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents.
