The Taub Center for Israel Studies will host “American Jews and Israel: A Relationship in Transition,” a one-day conference featuring Itamar Rabinovich, Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Kurtzer, former American ambassador to Israel, and others, on Sun., April 19
New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies will host “American Jews and Israel: A Relationship in Transition,” a one-day conference featuring Itamar Rabinovich, Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Kurtzer, former American ambassador to Israel, and others, on Sun., April 19, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the NYU campus.
PROGRAM
Day Session: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor (between Sullivan and Thompson Streets)
10:00 a.m.: Greetings
10:15-12:30 p.m.: “American Jews and Israel – Trends and New Directions”
Dov Waxman, Northeastern University
Theodore Sasson, Brandeis University
Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Moderator: Mijal Bitton, NYU
1:00 p.m.: “Israel Experience and Israel Education”
Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University
Yona Shem-Tov, Encounter
Bethamie Horowitz, NYU
Moderator: Lisa Grant, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
3:30 p.m.: “Ties and Tensions: American Jewish Leadership and Israel”
Joy Levitt, JCC of Manhattan
John Ruskay, executive vice president emeritus, UJA-Federation, NYC
David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Moderator: Amir Shaviv, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Evening Session: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, first floor (between Sullivan and Thompson Streets)
7:00 p.m. Ambassadors Panel Discussion: “The View from Washington and Jerusalem”
Itamar Rabinovich, Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S.
Dan Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt
Moderated by JJ Goldberg, the Forward
The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please visit the conference's registration page. For more information, please call 212.992.9797 or email rsvp.taub@nyu.edu. Subways: A, C, D, E, F, M (West 4th St.).
Editor’s Note:
The Taub Center was established with a gift from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. The gift supports an endowed professorship and two graduate fellowships in Israel Studies, and funds lectures, seminars, scholarly colloquia at the Center, and other special programs for students, faculty, and the community. In addition to offering its own programming, the Taub Center works closely with NYU’s departments to create cross-disciplinary programming, serving to broaden NYU’s offerings in Judaic and Middle Eastern studies. For more, go to http://taub.as.nyu.edu/.