Unlikely Allies in the Face of Hate: Jews and Muslims in Trump’s America

A Lecture by Samuel Freedman

Bomb threats against Jewish community centers and cultural institutions, vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, attacks on mosques, and swastika graffiti—these are some of the hate crimes on the rise in the recent months. Long-time New York Times columnist and award-winning author Samuel Freedman will discuss the current climate in this talk.

About the Speaker
Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A former long-time columnist for The New York Times and a current professor at Columbia University, Freedman is the author of the seven acclaimed books, most recently Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football that Transformed the Game and Changed the Course of Civil Rights (2013). His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School (1990); Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church (1993); The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000); Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life (2005); and Letters to a Young Journalist (2006).