In the first of a series of talks discussing “What Might Peace Look Like,” founding Faculty Director of the Chicago Forum on Free Inquiry and Expression professor Tom Ginsburg discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Salam Fayyad, who served as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority from 2007 to 2013.

Yinam Cohem, consul general of Israel to the Midwest, spoke on October 8 to the invite-only “Democracy in Israel” gathering about the Israeli political system, the Israel-Hamas war, and the connections between American and Israeli Jews.