Antisemitism on Campus: Student Leaders in Conversation with Bari Weiss
Join Blake Flayton and Rose Ritch, students who have fought antisemitism on campus, in conversation with Bari Weiss, journalist and award-winning author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism”. Together, we will hear their personal experiences with antisemitism on campus, and explore multiple perspectives on how to face these challenges across our communities.
Moderated by Tilly Shemer, Executive Director of University of Michigan Hillel.
This event is co-sponsored by Hillel at The George Washington University and USC Hillel.
Bari Weiss is a journalist and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” which won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award and a Natan Notable Book Award. From 2017 to 2020, Bari was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.
Bari is the winner, this year, of the inaugural Per Ahlmark award in recognition of her moral courage. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times’s “star opinion writer” and The Jerusalem Post named Bari the seventh most influential Jew in the world.