Brit Tzedek's NYC Young Adults and author Gregory Levey of "Shut Up, I'm Talking" June 26, 2008

NYC Brit Tzedek v'Shalom's Young Adult Happy Hour

is pleased to host

GREGORY LEVEY
Author of Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Goverment

on

THURSDAY, JUNE 26TH at 7:00 PM

at

Revival, 129 E. 15th Street (between Irving Place and 3rd Ave)

"How does a New York law student apply for an internship at the Israeli Consulate and wind up writing speeches for Ariel Sharon during one of the most turbulent times in Israeli history?"

Join us as we joke about the Middle East with young writer Gregory Levey, author of the comical memoir Shut Up, I'm Talking, and learn about the internal debates of the Israeli government and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office at the time of the Second Intifada, Arafat's death and the Disengagement from someone with unparalleled access to the inside story.

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Our generation relates to Israel in fundamentally different ways than our parents and grandparents. This is our time to talk about the Middle East, peace, and progressive Jewish identity among our peers.

ABOUT GREGORY LEVEY

Shut Up, I'm Talking is a smart, hilarious insider take on Israeli politics that reads like the bastard child of Thomas Friedman and David Sedaris. When twenty-five-year-old law student Gregory Levey applied for an internship at the Israeli Consulate in New York, he got way more of an education than he'd bargained for. Shut Up, I'm Talking is a startling account of Levey's journey into the nerve center of Middle Eastern politics at one of the most turbulent times in Israeli history. During his three years in the Israeli government, the Second Intifada continued on in fits and starts, Yasser Arafat died, Hamas came to power, and Ariel Sharon fell into a coma.

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