How to Understand (and Not to Understand) Anti-Semitism

Published: May 24, 2011, 7 a.m.

Nearly 200 people attended a conference on Anti-Semitism at the Osher Marin JCC on May 15, 2011 to explore anti-Semitism in a series of workshops, a panel discussion and a keynote presentation by Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic since 1983. Wiseltier is a writer and cultural critic, a nationally renowned public intellectual and author of several books including Kaddish and Against Identity. His talk is on How to Understand (and Not to Understand) Anti-Semitism.