Endowment Fund Speaker Series “The Power of Words” featuring Matti Friedman

Congregation Emanu El welcomes published author Matti Friedman as the second speaker of the 2024-2025 Endowment Speaker Series.

Matti Friedman is a journalist and the award-winning author of four works of non-fiction, most recently, Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.

Matti’s work as a reporter has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, the Caucasus, and Washington, DC. A former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for the New York Times opinion section, he currently writes a monthly feature for Tablet Magazine. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, the Atlantic, and elsewhere.