For the first time AJC will be webcasting live from the Annual Meeting. The webcasting URL for the 4 sessions is http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=39459.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Jan Karski Award Presentation
Father Patrick Desbois, Head of the Committee for Relations with Judaism for the French Catholic Bishops Conference
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Preparing for a New World
Klaus Schwab, Chair, World Economic Forum
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Thursday, May 3 at 9:30 AM
At a Century's Beginning: The Prospects for Judaism and the Jews
What Will Become of the Jewish People?
Harold Shapiro, Chair, Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations; President Emeritus of Princeton University
Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor, The New Republic
Ruth Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University
Yossi Beilin, Chair, Meretz-Yahad Party, Israel
Alfred Moses, AJC Honorary President
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Thursday, May 3 at 7:00 PM
101st Anniversary Gala Reception and Dinner
E. Robert Goodkind, President
David A. Harris, Executive Director
Madeline and Bruce Ramer Award for Diplomatic Excellence Presentation
Response:
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Senator of the Province of Buenos Aires
Zalmay Khalilzad, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations
Light unto the Nations Award Presentation
Response: Álvaro Uribe Vélez, President of Colombia
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Friday, May 4 at 12:00 PM
Winning the War of Ideas
Alvin Rosenfeld, Director, Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts, Indiana University
Gil Troy, Professor of History, McGill University
Irwin Cotler, Member of Parliament, Canada; Justice Minister, 2004-2006
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Member of Parliament, Netherlands, 2003-2006,
Mass Media Award Presentation
Response: Magdi Allam, Editor, Corriere della Sera; Arab and Islamic affairs commentator
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