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10:00 – 5:00 PM
BOG: Strategic Planning Discussion

9:00 – 12:00 PM
BOG: Strategic Planning Discussion

12:00 – 2:00 PM
Planned Giving Corner - Robin Ann Phillips, National Director of Planned Giving, AJC

2:00 – 3:30 PM
Board of Governors/National Council Meeting

3:30 – 5:30 PM
National Leadership Award Reception Honoring Shrub Kempner

4:45 – 5:45 PM
Welcome Reception

5:45 – 8:00 PM

“Global Jewish Challenges Today”

Keynote
Bernard-Henri Lévy, French author and philosopher

Respondents
Einat Wilf, Israeli author and activist; fellow, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
Dov Zakheim, Chair, International Relations Commission, AJC

Moderator: Mimi Alperin, Chair, Board of Governors, AJC

Public Service Award

Presentation: David Harris, Executive Director, AJC

Response: Stuart A. Levey, U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

8:30 – 10:00 PM

Private Dinners with Distinguished Guests and AJC Staff Experts

• Deidre Berger, Director of Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations
• Lisa Billig, AJC representative, Rome and the Vatican
• Valerie Hoffenberg, Director, AJC France
• Eran Lerman, Director, AJC Israel and Middle East Office
• Stuart A. Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
• Hillel Neuer, Executive Director, UN Watch
• Hector Timerman, Ambassador of Argentina to U.S.
• Amb. Arun K. Singh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, and Former Amb. of India to Israel
• Yashar Aliyev, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to U.S.
• John Mann, MP, Chair of the UK parliamentary group on Anti-Semitism
• Congressman Robert Wexler, (D-Florida)
• Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Ambassador of Brazil
• And more!

7:30 – 8:15 AM  Optional Daily Minyanim and Study

“How to Read a Jewish Text”

Facilitator
  Prof. Jeremy Dauber

9:00 – 10:15 AM    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

IDENTITY Are We Still One People? Speakers     Rabbi Saul Berman     Rabbi Eric Yoffie     Prof. Ismar Schorsch Moderator    Erica Brown Closing Remarks    Steven Bayme

SECURITY Global Threats: Lessons for Diplomacy Speakers     Elliott Abrams     George Friedman     Moisés Naím Moderator     Martine Rubenstein Closing Remarks     Jason Isaacson

PLURALISM Cooperation or Conflict? Intergroup Relations in Today’s America Speakers     Janet Murguía     Rabbi David Saperstein     Hilary Shelton Moderator     Jerry Biederman Closing Remarks     Ann Schaffer

10:30 – 11:45 AM    SKILL-BUILDING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

IDENTITY *SOLD OUT*    How Did We Get Here? Israeli   History for Israel Advocates I     Eran Lerman   Kol Yisrael: Global Jewry and   Mutual Responsibility     Andrew Baker     Tomas Kraus, Executive        Director of the Federation of        Jewish Communities of the        Czech Republic   Why Be Jewish?      Mervyn Danker

SECURITY   Anti-Zionism and   Anti-Semitism: Response   Strategies      Ben Cohen   Advocacy the AJC Way:   The Leadership Voice     Richard Foltin and     Susan Abravanel   Conducting an Energy   Advocacy Campaign     David Bernstein     Donald Yale,  *SOLD OUT*   Jewish Diplomacy and the   State of Israel      Amb. Aaron Jacob

PLURALISM   Interreligious Dialogue:   What you Need to Know about   Judaism      Gary Greenebaum   Seizing New Opportunities in   Black-Jewish Relations      Melanie Maron   Creating a Partnership with   Indian-Americans      Ann Schaffer and      Nissim Reuben

12:00-1:30 PM   LUNCH BOOK CLUB  Dining with AJC staff experts

• *SOLD OUT*  Much Too Promised Land by Aaron David Miller
    Carmiel Arbit
• *SOLD OUT*  A Time to Every Purpose by Jonathan Sarna
    Rabbi Noam Marans
• *SOLD OUT*  Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb by Emanuele Ottolenghi
    Doug Lieb
• *SOLD OUT*  The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes by Avraham Burg
    Steve Bayme
• *SOLD OUT*  The Path to Paradise: The Inner World of the Suicide Bombers and their Dispatchers by Anat Berko
    Anat Berko
• NEW! Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
    A contemporary novel portraying the war of independence in the Israeli imagination.
    Prof. Jeremy Dauber
• NEW! Godly Republic by John Dilulio
    Richard Foltin
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1:30 – 2:45 PM SKILL-BUILDING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

IDENTITY Building Young Leadership      Rebecca Neuwirth *SOLD OUT*  How Did We Get Here? Israeli History for Israel Advocates II      Steven Bayme

SECURITY Battlefront 2.0: Israel Advocacy on the Web”      Ben Cohen    Choosing Partners for    Dialogue”       Yehudit Barsky *SOLD OUT*  Effective Diplomatic Outreach: Talking About Iran       Jason Isaacson   Conducting an Energy Advocacy Campaign      David Bernstein      Donald Yale

PLURALISM Effective Immigration Advocacy      Kara Stein Building a Latino-Jewish Coalition in Your Area”      Dina Siegel Vann      Larry Gonzalez   Interreligious Dialogue: Dos and Don’ts      Gary Greenebaum and      Emily Soloff

3:00 – 4:00 PM Breakout Sessions with International Partners (Optional)

Australia
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Georgia
Mexico
South Africa
Turkey
United Kingdom
Venezuela

3:00 – 4:00 PM
Planned Giving Corner - Robin Ann Phillips, National Director of Planned Giving, AJC

3:00 – 5:00 PM Break

5:00 – 6:00 PM Gala Reception

6:30 – 8:30 PM Gala Program

Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States
Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister of Italy

Jan Karski Award
Presentation: Stanley Bergman, Chair, AJC National Council
Recipient: John Mann, Member of United Kingdom Parliament; Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism

9:00 – ACCESS Granted Reception presented by Leonard Greenberg Forum for Domestic Policy Issues featuring Norm Eisen, White House Ethics Advisor

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7:30 AM  Optional Daily Minyanim and Study

"How to Read a Jewish Text"

Facilitator
Prof. Jeremy Dauber

8:30 – 9:45 AM CONCURRENT SESSION

IDENTITY  Jewish Identity: A New Generation Speakers     Ed Loh     Halie Soifer     Rabbi Ethan Tucker Moderator     Ari Wallach Closing Remarks     Rebecca Neuwirth

SECURITY Has Global Anti-Semitism Gone Mainstream? Speakers     Valerie Hoffenberg     Deidre Berger     Hillel Neuer     Dina Siegel Vann Moderator and Closing Remarks     Andrew Baker

PLURALISM Religion in America: New Trends and Old Controversies Speakers     Dr. Jean Pierre Ruiz     Fr. James Massa     Elena G. Procario-Foley Moderator     David Rousso Closing Remarks     Gary Greenebaum

10:00 – Noon Concluding Plenary

Mass Media Award

Presentation
Linda Mirels, Member, Board of Governers, AJC

Recipient
Pilar Rahola, Spanish journalist, Member of Spanish Parliament, 1993-2000
     
Remarks
Richard Sideman, AJC President

A Conversation with David Harris, Executive Director, AJC

Closing
 Stanley Bergman, Chair, AJC National Council