Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:45 – 8:45 AM
"The Roots of American Democracy in the Hebrew Bible"
a study session with Naomi Harris Rosenblatt, LCSW,
author of Wrestling with Angels and After the Apple
9:00 – 10:15 AM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Goldstone, Gaza: Have Human Rights Gone Wrong?
speakers
MP IRWIN COTLER, International human rights lawyer, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 2003-6
GABRIELLA BLUM, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School; Scholar of international relations and law
The Obama Administration and Israel
speakers
AMB. WENDY SHERMAN, Vice Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
ROBERT LIEBER, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University
JACKSON DIEHL, Deputy editorial page editor, Washington Post
10:30 – 12:30 PM
Breakout Sessions
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Lunch
12:00 – 2:00 PM
ACCESS (AJC's Young Leadership):
Leonard Greenberg Forum for Domestic Policy Luncheon
12:00 – 2:00 PM
AJC Board of Governors Meeting
2:15 – 3:30 PM
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
The Contemporary Meaning of the Shoah
speakers
STEVEN KATZ, Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University; Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies
JEREMY DAUBER, Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University
PAULA HYMAN, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University, and President, American Academy of Jewish Research
Can Europe be Multicultural?
confirmed speakers include:
CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Financial Times columnist and author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
HEIDRUN TEMPEL, Special Representative for Dialogue Among Civilizations, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
3:30 – 5:15 PM
Distinguished Leadership Award
honoring:
AJC President RICHARD SIDEMAN
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Gala Cocktail Reception
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Gala Program
Hatikvah and National Anthem sung by
MAX FUCHS, the cantor and U.S. soldier in the first Jewish religious service broadcast from occupied German territory in 1944.
EHUD BARAK,
Defense Minister of Israel
Jan Karski Award
Recipient:
MIGUEL MORATINOS,
Foreign Minister of Spain
8:30 PM
Gala Party (Dinner & Dance)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Lunch with
YASHAR ALIYEV, Azerbaijani Ambassador to the U.S.
To register, please contact Yael Amit at
amity@ajc.org or 212-891-6764.
3:00 – 4:00 PM
First-Time Attendee Reception
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Welcome Reception
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Opening Plenary
Global Jewish Challenges Today
keynote speaker:
MICHAEL OREN, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S.
confirmed speakers include:
ANTHONY JULIUS, distinguished British attorney and author
of
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism
DAVID WOLPE, Rabbi, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles; named the number one pulpit Rabbi in America by
Newsweek magazine
Congressional Leadership Award
recipient:
SENATOR ROBERT MENENDEZ (D-NJ)
8:00 – 10:00 PM
private dinners with
distinguished guests and
ajc staff experts:
DEIDRE BERGER, Director of AJC's Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, Berlin
LISA BILLIG, AJC representative, Rome and the Vatican
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ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN, Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, a national security analyst for ABC News
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MP IRWIN COTLER, international human rights lawyer, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 2003-6
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CAROLINA BARCO ISAKSON, Colombian Ambassador to the U.S.
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ANTHONY JULIUS, distinguished British attorney and author
of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism
******* SOLD OUT *******
ROBERT KUPIEKI, Polish Ambassador to the U.S.
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AZIZ MEKOUAR, Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S.
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JAVIER MORENO, Director of Spain's
El País, Spain's most influential newspaper
CECILIA MUNOZ, White House Director of Inter-Governmental Affairs
HILLEL NEUER, Executive Director, AJC's UN Watch
ED RETTIG, Acting Director, AJC Jerusalem
DAVID ROSEN, AJC International Interreligious Affairs Director
OLEH SHAMSHUR, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S.
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SAMEH SHOUKRY, Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S.
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ARUN K. SINGH, Deputy Chief of Mission, India
BARRY WHITE, U.S. Ambassador to Norway
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PIERRE VIMONT, French Ambassador to the U.S.*
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And more!
10:00 PM
Event in honor of Jon Levine, retiring Community Services Director
*Dinners will take place at the embassies.
