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Sydney book launch: The holy and the broken

SOLD OUT!

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT!

However if you are a young adult please join us Wednesday night:

Wed Feb 5 @7:30pm Young Adult launch in Double Bay

There is also an option to join the waitlist but we can't guarantee that spots will become available.

When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. Following decades of dialogue facilitation between Jews, Muslims and Christians, Ittay Flescher believes that today's enemies can be the partners of the future. Join the Sydney launch of his first book, The holy and the broken, which challenges Palestinian and Israeli leaders, citizens, and their supporters worldwide to imagine a different reality in a book that will comfort the troubled and trouble the comfortable. 

The evening includes an in conversation with Ittay and Melanie, followed by Q&A with a live performance from Harpbeat Music, book sales and light refreshments.

'Courageous and considered. Ittay nurtures the tender, fragile shoots of peace. The world could do with more people like him' Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Speakers

Ittay-Flescher

Ittay Flescher

Ittay Flescher is the Education Director at Kids4Peace Jerusalem, an interfaith movement for Israelis and Palestinians and the Jerusalem Correspondent for The Jewish Independent from Australia. As an insightful analyst ...
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Melanie Schwartz

Melanie is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW, where she teaches and researches in criminal law, Indigenous justice issues and access to justice. She also ...

Location

Thursday 6 February 2025
6:00PM - 7:30PM
$15/$10
Double Bay Library