Watch Webinar – Book Talk: “If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century” by Amb Elliott Abrams
Book Talk: “If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century” by Amb Elliott Abrams
“American Jewish identity is steadily weakening. National surveys show hundreds of thousands of children with one, or even two, Jewish parents not being raised as Jews by religion or to think of themselves as members of the Jewish community. And the surveys show that young American Jews are far less engaged with and supportive of Israel than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations—even after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 and the Gaza war that followed.”
Amb. Elliott Abrams, member of JINSA’s Iran Policy Project and Gaza Futures Task Force and Chairman for the Vandenberg Coalition, discussed his new book If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century, to learn the lessons he has gathered through his experience at the highest levels of decision-making with Jewish, American, and Israeli leaders. Amb. Abrams will apply his insight and expertise to some of the toughest problems facing American Jews today.
The discussion was moderated by JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD.
Amb. Elliott Abrams
Amb. Elliott Abrams is a member of JINSA’s Gaza Futures Task Force and Iran Policy Project and senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump.