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Courageous Leadership: Seeking Moderation in Partisan Times

Mijal Bitton and attorney and author David French explore what it means to be a voice of conscience who calls out excesses in one’s own partisan home.
Mijal Bitton, David French
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Mijal Bitton

Dr. Mijal Bitton is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and the Rosh Kehilla (communal leader) and co-founder of the Downtown Minyan in New York City. Mijal received a BA from Yeshiva University and earned her doctorate from New York University, where she conducted an ethnographic study of a Syrian Jewish community with a focus on developing the field of contemporary Sephardic studies in America.  She is an alumna of the

David French

Courageous Leadership: Seeking Moderation in Partisan Times

Hartman Scholar in Residence Mijal Bitton and attorney and author David French explore what it means to be an in-group moderate: a voice of conscience who calls out the excesses in one’s own partisan home.

David is an evangelical Christian and political conservative who has emerged as a prominent critic of his former political party over its embrace of Trumpism. He is Senior Editor at The Dispatch, a columnist for Time, and the author of ‘Divided We Fall’.

NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Symposium,  Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

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