Generations of Courage: From Refuseniks to Today’s Campus Struggle

What does it mean to refuse antizionist erasure — to remain Jewish, Zionist, visible, and connected to our story — when the pressure to conform keeps rising? Join us for an inspiring conversation about Jewish courage, defiance, and resilience.

Author Izabella Tabarovsky brings the insights of her acclaimed book Be a Refusenik to Baltimore. Drawing on the moral clarity of the refusenik movement, the book offers a powerful, practical framework for navigating today’s climate of anti-Jewish ideological coercion. Joined by former refusenik Aleksander Smukler and one of this generation’s leading Jewish voices, Eyal Yakoby, the conversation explores what it takes to stand firm, refuse to bend under pressure, and affirm the full spectrum of Jewish identity in our time.