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Kulanu presents Navigating Israel Speaker Series – Antisemitism Definitions and Free Speech
Wednesday, October 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Kulanu Antisemitism Workgroup of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue presents:
Navigating Israel: A Social Justice Speaker Series.
Antisemitism Definitions and Free Speech
Kenneth S. Stern, J.D. (appearing remotely)
In Person Only (not on Zoom)
Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Mr. Stern is an award-winning author and attorney, and was most recently executive director of the Justus & Karin Rosenberg Foundation. Before that he was director of the division on antisemitism and extremism at the American Jewish Committee, where he worked for 25 years.
His op-eds have appeared in newpapers and magazines around the world and he frequently appears on national and international television and radio programs. Mr. Stern was the lead drafter of the “working definition” of antisemitism. He is co-chair of the Higher Education/Hate Studies working group of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit, and serves on the board of the Journal of Hate Studies.
His 2020 book, The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate (New Jewish Press, 2020), has been called a “must read,” “thoughtful and provocative,” a “gift,” a “rare and uncompromising testament to free expression” and a “blueprint for how to navigate the ‘conflict over the conflict’ on campus.” Its first chapter is entitled “Thinking about Thinking,” and draws from hate studies to explain how our thinking changes when our identity is tethered to an issue of perceived justice or injustice.
Most recently (University of Toronto Press, 2025), Stern is the editor of Simply Human: A Guide to Understanding and Combating Hate, an easy-to-read book in which an international team of hate studies experts join forces, guiding us to a better understanding of human hatred, what works to confront it, what doesn’t, and why.
— Doors 5:00pm, Program 5:30-7:00pm.
