I am posting this for a friend This event in the NYC area might be
of interest to some.
Shabbat Shalom and Shanah Tovah
Phil
The American Jewish Committee ~ New Jersey Area 225 Millburn
Avenue, Suite 301 Millburn, NJ 07041
Phone: 973-379-7844 Fax: 973-379-2036 e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.ajc.org
Date: September 6,
2007 Contact: Sari
Klinghoffer 973-379-7844
FREE COMMUNITY FORUM WITH RENOWNED AUTHOR SEPTEMBER 30
Dr. Michael B. Oren, an award winning journalist, author and
historian, will discuss his latest book, Power, Faith and Fantasy:
America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present at a community forum
co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and Congregation B'nai
Jeshurun on Sunday, September 30th at 10:00 a.m. at Congregation
B'nai Jeshurun, 1025 South Orange Ave. in Short Hills.
Oren, a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, is an expert
on the diplomatic and military history of the Middle East. He has
written extensively for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
and The New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor.
Dr. Oren is the author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making
of the Modern Middle East. The book was a New York Times bestseller,
winner of the Los Angeles Times' History Book of the Year prize and
the National Jewish Book Award.
Raised in New Jersey, Michael Oren immigrated to Israel in 1979 and
served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, seeing combat
in the 1982 Lebanon War. He was an advisor to Yitzhak Rabin and
served as the Israeli liaison officer to the U.S. Sixth Fleet during
the Gulf War.
A graduate of Princeton and Columbia Universities, he has briefed
the White House and has testified before Congress on Middle Eastern
affairs. Currently, he is a visiting professor at Yale University.
Funded in part by an endowment in memory of Edward L. Blau, the
program is free and open to the community. For reservations or
additional information please phone or e-mail the AJC office at
973-379-7844 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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