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SESSION ONE : Suspense
Jonathan Freedland presents Sam Bourne, the author of a new exciting thriller set in the New York Jewish community. Discover who is hiding behind this mysterious name. You won’t be disappointed!
Moderated by award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster Jay Rayner.
To see a review of Sam Bourne's book The Righteous Men, click here.
SESSION TWO : Don't Tell Me Miracles Can't Happen!
“I have seen the end of Apartheid and witnessed modern Israel rising from the ashes of the Holocaust. Don’t tell me miracles can’t happen”. So concludes Hirsh Goodman at the end of his autobiography.
Both Hirsh Goodman and Jonathan Kaplan grew up in South Africa and fled apartheid.
Goodman went to Israel in search of his paradise. His work as a journalist in constant dialogue with Israel’s leaders helped him closely follow the evolution of the country. He saw his son leave the country after his military service in the West Bank to move to the new South Africa.
Kaplan travelled the world to work for medical charities in areas of conflict – Burma, Eritrea, Angola, Baghdad – experiencing riots, tropical fevers and political upheavals.
They discuss what kept them going, the price they paid and the challenge of retaining their ideals.
Hirsh Goodman is the founder of the Jerusalem Report, former vice president of the Jerusalem Post, and currently senior research associate at the Jaffe Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has also been a contributing editor to U. S. News and World Report and the New Republic, a special correspondent for the London Sunday Times and for CBS News. He has recently published his autobiography: Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Childhood in South Africa and a Life in Israel. Click here to see a review of this book.
Jonathan Kaplan studied medicine in Cape Town before coming to the United Kingdom and USA to acquire specialist surgical qualifications. After ten years of clinical experience and research work he left the secure career of hospital surgery to travel as a doctor, journalist and documentary film maker. His first book The Dressing Station won both the Alan Paton Award and the South African Booksellers Choice Award. His new book Contact Wounds has just been published.
Click here to view a recent interview given by Jonathan Kaplan to The Times.
Jeff Barak is Managing Editor of the Jewish Chronicle.
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