The Curse of Cash
Speakers: Kenneth Rogoff, Andrew Haldane One of the world’s leading economists, Harvard Professor and chess grandmaster, Kenneth Rogoff, makes a persuasive case for ridding the world of high value paper money. Even as people in advanced economies are using less paper money, there is more cash in circulation – a record $1.4 trillion in U.S. […]
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story
In an astute and moving exposé of war’s futility – part memoir, part reportage – award-winning writer and journalist Matti Friedman, in conversation with Hugo Rifkind, recounts in his nonfiction work Pumpkinflowers the fate that befell an Israeli military outpost on the Lebanese borders in the 1990s. A lyrical yet devastating insight into the day-to-day […]
Not Chosen
Speakers: Giles Fraser, Richard Harries Giles Fraser, priest, columnist, broadcaster and educator talks to Richard Harries about his upbringing as the child of a Christian-born mother and Jewish-born father, describing his faith, his passions, his politics, and his hopes and qualms for the future. A man of high principles, he nevertheless admits to time spent […]
Midrash Unbound: Transformations and Innovations
Speakers: Joanna Weinberg, Philip Alexander, Theodor Dunkelgrün Professors Joanna Weinberg and Philip Alexander with Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün discourse on the Midrash. Covering a broad range of texts, from late antiquity to the modern period, including non-rabbinic and non-Jewish literature, an impressive array of the leading names in the field have produced a volume that seeks […]
The Wild West: Boom or Bust?
Speakers: Mark Lawson, Michael Goldfarb, Daniel Johnson,Jonathan Shenin, Ann Treneman, Peter Trubowitz The arrival of President Trump and the threat of Europe’s so-called alt-right are already having far-reaching implications around the world. Our panel of experts assess whether Trump’s America will be a gun-slinging new version of The Wild West – a ‘boom or bust’ […]
A Day in the Life of the Brain
Speakers: Susan Greenfield, Daniel Glaser Baroness Susan Greenfield outlines her profound yet straightforward theory about how each of us experiences and evolves an entirely personal view of the world. In this astute analysis of how consciousness works, she traces a single day in the life of the brain, exploring subjectivity, the act of dreaming, the […]
Alan Greenspan: The Man Who Knew
Speakers: Sebastian Mallaby, Martin Sandbu Winner of the 2016 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of this titan of finance brilliantly renders the subtlety and complexity of Greenspan’s legacy in a gripping account of high-octane political infighting, hard hitting dialogue and previously unknown stories. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was […]
Daniel Finkelstein and Jonathan Freedland in conversation
Speakers: Daniel Finkelstein, Jonathan Freedland Finkelstein and Freedland are two of the UK’s most brilliant social and political commentators: questing, clear-headed, frequently impassioned. Writing from radically different perspectives, they have analysed and dissected every major event and pressing issue of recent times. Now they bring their in-depth knowledge and wit to a wide-ranging conversation about their political ideals […]
Sailing to Byzantium
Speakers: Bettany Hughes, Peter Frankopan Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle. In her epic new biography, Istanbul, Bettany Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through one of the world’s greatest cities as it transmogrified from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul. Based on meticulous research and new […]
Men of the World
Speakers: Barrington Black, Michael Freedland, Jonathan Goldberg Mr Justice Barrington Black was one of the UK’s best-known criminal defence lawyers. His old brother-in-arms, journalist and broadcaster Michael Freedland, is author of more than 40 biographies and presenter of, among other radio shows, the celebrated You Don’t Have To Be Jewish. Led by Jonathan Goldberg QC […]
Rabbi I Have A Problem
Speakers: Jonathan Romain, Naftali Brawer Bring all your questions, puzzles and dilemmas for the experts to grapple with in a truly interactive event. The JC’s Rabbinic authorities – Naftali Brawer and Jonathan Romain – will consider all your quandaries about matters Jewish from their respective Orthodox and Progressive points of view. A new collection of […]
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a few Streets
Speakers: Dan Cruickshank, Rachel Lichtenstein Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and more. In a fascinating evocation of one of London’s most distinctive districts, Dan Cruickshank tells the story of […]