Great Minds, Great Discussions

March 17 -  7:30 pm - Match Made in Heaven; American Jews, Christian Zionists and one Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance

With guest panelists -

Michael Elterman - Chair of Canada Israel Committee, Pacific Region

Robert Horenstein - Director, community Relations, Jewish Federation of Portland

Alexander Moens - Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Over the course of an extraordinary year, Zev Chafets—former New York Daily News columnist and onetime director of the Israeli government press office—traveled the world to explore the improbable confluence of Jews and evangelicals. He spent quality time with Jerry Falwell, visited Jewish cadets at West Point, attended the world's biggest Christian retail show, embarked on a road trip with the rabbi with the largest gentile following since Jesus, journeyed to the Holy Land with a band of repentant Christian pilgrims, and broke bread with George W. Bush and five hundred fellow Jewish Republicans.

A Match Made in Heaven is the penetrating, engaging, and often hilarious narrative of Chafets's determined quest to get to the root of a very serious question: Why do evangelicals support Israel so strongly? Equal parts history, comedy, travelogue, and political tract, it is a smart and adventurous odyssey along a rapidly changing religious and political border.

Past Sessions:

October 28 - 7:00 pm - Watching and discussing Salla Shabati

December 9 - 7:30 pm - Discussing The People of the Book - The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah

January 20 - 7:30 pm - Loss and Survival - Stories of the Holocaust