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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Je
 ws?\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441500373/The_Young
 _and_Restless_Where_are_Young_American_Jews\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-05-24
 \nEvent Date End: 2012-05-24\n\nThe young\, restless and indifferent\, com
 mitted\, alienated and autonomous: where are young American Jews? How do t
 hey think about Israel\, about the organized Jewish community\, about thei
 r own identities as Jews? How\, if at all\, do we successfully transmit to
  new generations the passion for Jewish life and for Israel that character
 ized their parents and grandparents&mdash\;or has too much already changed
 ?\nPeter Beinart (pictured) is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Po
 litical Science at The City University of New York\, Senior Political Writ
 er for The Daily Beast\, and a contributor to Time. Beinart has also writt
 en for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal\, and has appeared o
 n many network and cable news and general interest programs\, including Me
 et the Press\, This Week with George Stephanopoulos\, Charlie Rose\, The M
 cLaughlin Group and The Colbert Report.\nJohn Ruskay joined the United Jew
 ish Appeal &ndash\;Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York in 1993
  and has served as its Executive Vice President and CEO since 1999. He was
  Educational Director of the 92nd Street Y from 1980 to 1985 and Vice Chan
 cellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary from 1965 to 1993.\n\nRabbi Marg
 ie Klein is one of America's leading young Jewish voices. The rabbi of Con
 gregation Sha'arei Shalom in Ashland\, MA\, she is the founder of Moishe/K
 avod House in Brookline\, a community of 600 young adults dedicated to soc
 ial justice\, and is currently working with other Jewish social justice gr
 oups to create a national network of Kavod Houses. Prior to rabbinical sch
 ool\, she founded and led Project Democracy\, a youth voting organization 
 that has mobilized more than 97\,000 college students. A graduate of Yale 
 University and Hebrew College\, Klein is the co-editor of Righteous Indign
 ation\, a Jewish Call for Justice (Jewish Lights).\nAvi Weiss\, a Modern O
 rthodox rabbi\, heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale \, a congregation 
 of 850 families. Ranked by Newsweek as among the 15 most prominent rabbis 
 in the US\, he is Founder and Dean of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah\, the &ldquo
 \;open Orthodox&rdquo\; yeshiva. Weiss was an early leader of the Student 
 Struggle for Soviet Jewry and is a leading advocate for equality of Jewish
  women.\nHot Buttons\, Cool Conversations is conceived and produced in col
 laboration with Leonard Fein who will moderate this forum. The founding ed
 itor of Moment Magazine and Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger\, Fein's 90
 0+ essays\, articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times\, The
  New Republic\, The Nation and The Jewish Daily Forward.\n\nStart time: 7:
 30pm
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SUMMARY:The Young and Restless: Where are Young American Jews?
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