BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:183@torat-el.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T140000 DTSTAMP:20210126T123742Z URL:https://www.torat-el.org/events/a-conversation-with-authors-natan-shar ansky-and-gil-troy/ SUMMARY:A Conversation with authors Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy DESCRIPTION:Congregation Torat El in partnership with Congregation B'nai Is rael of Toms River\, Congregation B'nai Israel of Rumson and Temple Emanu- El of Haverhill\, MA. present: A Conversation with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy\, authors of Never Alone\; Prison\, Politics and My People.\nRegiste r here and you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom Link.\nNeve r Alone \;is a classic account of courage\, integrity and belonging. I n 1977\, Natan Sharansky\, a leading activist for the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration\ , was arrested. He spent nine years as a political prisoner\, convicted of treason against the state. In \;Never Alone\, Natan Sharansky and his torian Gil Troy show how Sharansky’s years in prison\, many spent in har sh solitary confinement\, prepared him for his public life\, bringing extr aordinary moral clarity and uncompromising honesty to his work as an Israe li politician and the head of the Jewish Agency. Never one who placed expe diency ahead of consistent values\, Sharansky was an often-awkward politic al colleague but always visionary as to where the real threats to freedom lay. \;Never Alone \;is suffused with reflections from his time as a political prisoner\, from his seat at the table as history unfolded in Israel and the Middle East\, and his passionate efforts to unite the Jewis h people. Written with frankness\, affection\, and humor\, the book offers us profound insights from a man whose fight for individual freedom in the face of overt tyranny would come to define the rest of his life. \;\n \nNatan Sharansky is an Israeli politician\, human rights activist and aut hor. He served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018.\n\nGil Troy is the award-winning author of “The Ag e of Clinton: America in the 1990s” which will be published this October by Thomas Dunne Books of St. Martin׳s Press. A Professor of History at M cGill University since 1990\, he is a leading presidential historian\, wri ting about the history of American presidential elections\, the importance of moderation in American democracy\, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s fig ht as US Ambassador to the UN against the infamous Zionism is Racism resol ution.\n\nPlease note this program is not part of our Meet the Author seri es.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.torat-el.org/wp-content/uploads/2021 /01/cov-featured-image-e1611235357969.jpg CATEGORIES:Congregation Torat El,Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR