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When Israeli society fractures along its deepest seams –– secular and religious, soldier and yeshiva student, left and right –– what becomes possible when we stop trying to win, and start tryi...
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When Israeli society fractures along its deepest seams –– secular and religious, soldier and yeshiva student, left and right –– what becomes possible when we stop trying to win, and start trying to listen?
Holding the Line brings together unlikely interlocutors from across Israel's most contested divides: an IDF soldier and a Haredi man, a secular skeptic and a religious–Zionist believer, and many more. Drawing on decades of work in mental health and a lifetime of conversation across cultural lines, Stuart Katz shows what emerges when curiosity replaces contempt –– and when listening itself becomes the line we are trying to hold.
This is not a book about resolving disagreement. It is a book about the older, harder art of staying in the room: of true listening, of honest difference held with respect, of the closeness that becomes possible the moment we stop performing our positions and begin to hear each other's lives.
Part intimate portrait, part quiet manifesto, Holding the Line is a book for an Israel learning to live with itself –– and for any reader, anywhere, who knows the loneliness of being misunderstood by the people closest to them.
