Critical Conversations Martha's Vineyard 2025

We are thrilled to invite you to Chabad on the Vineyard's fourth annual Critical Conversations speaker series!

Since opening our doors in the summer of 2022, these evenings have brought the community together to explore the most pressing and timely issues facing the Jewish world today.

This summer’s series features three powerful and thought-provoking evenings:

→ Wednesday, July 2

Hamas in America: How the Terror Group Became Embedded in the U.S.

With Matthew Levitt, Director of the Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Lara Burns, former FBI agent and Head of Terrorism Research at GW.

→ Wednesday, July 23

The Roots of October 7: 100 Years of Holy War

With Haviv Rettig Gur, Senior Journalist at the Times of Israel, and Yardena Schwartz, Journalist and Best-Selling Author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

→ Wednesday, August 20

A Conversation with Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres begin at 5:00 PM, followed by the conversation at 5:45 PM. All talks will take place in Edgartown, with the exact address shared upon RSVP.

Looking forward to seeing you this summer.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE SERIES

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