{"id":185351,"date":"2019-04-07T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=185351"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T17:14:58","slug":"global-affairs-vice-president-weiner-moderates-letters-to-my-palestinian-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/04\/global-affairs-vice-president-weiner-moderates-letters-to-my-palestinian-neighbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Affair&#8217;s Vice President Weiner Moderates &#8220;Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaltura.uconn.edu\/media\/Letters+to+My+Palestinian+NeighborA+A+Conversation+with+Yossi+Klein+Halevi+and+Ghaith+Al-Omari\/1_w3z7z9gl\">\u201cLetters to My Palestinian Neighbor\u201d<\/a> was held at 7 p.m. in the Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center on the UConn Storrs campus.<\/p>\n<p>Bestselling Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and co-director of the Institute\u2019s Muslim Leadership Initiative with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University. His 2018 book, <i>Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,<\/i> is a plea for peace and new dialogue based on common ground in faith. He is a frequent contributor to <i>The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times of Israel<\/i> and other publications. Gaith Al-Omari is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Mideast Policy and non-resident fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine who served as a high-level advisor in the Palestinian Authority. Daniel Weiner, Ph.D., Vice President for Global Affairs and Professor of Geography at the University of Connecticut, served as moderater.<\/p>\n<p>The program was presented by the Jewish Community Relations Council, part of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford; the World Affairs Council of Connecticut; UConn Global Affairs; the Shalom Hartman Institute; the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center; UConn Hillel and The Nachshon Project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 25, Yossi Klein Halevi and former Palestinian Authority advisor Ghaith Al-Omari discussed the past, current and future relationship between Israelis and Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":185356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2318,88],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2380],"class_list":["post-185351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodd-impact","category-global-affairs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 19:09:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185359,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185351\/revisions\/185359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/185356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185351"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=185351"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=185351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}