Georgetown University to Host Ami Nahshon: Bridging the Jewish-Arab Divide in Israel – A Pathway to Peace

Mar 22 2010 12:00pm - 2:00pm -

 

 

 Georgetown University to Host Ami Nahshon:

Bridging the Jewish-Arab Divide in Israel – A Pathway to Peace

WHO:                          Ami Nahshon, president and CEO of The Abraham Fund Initiatives 

WHAT:            Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service/Program on Jewish Civilization is hosting a lecture by Ami Nahshon, president and CEO of The Abraham Fund Initiatives, titled “Bridging the Jewish-Arab Divide in Israel and Beyond.” Nahshon will discuss how, as US special envoy George Mitchell brokers a new round of indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, it is time to examine the progress currently underway to improve relations between Jews and Palestinian-Arabs within Israel herself, where closing economic and social gaps and advancing coexistence and reconciliation are important pre-conditions to fostering a climate of peace in the region. 

WHEN:            March 22, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. 

WHERE:           Copley Formal Lounge, Copley Hall

Georgetown University

3700 O Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20057 

 

THE LECTURE AND DISCUSSION IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

 Below please find an invitation to NCJW’s Washington Institute (March 21-23).  I hope that some of you will be able to join us for what I am sure will be an exciting event.

One of the highlights of this year’s program will be four concurrent panels, entitled: The Judicial Branch: What’s at Stake for Our Issues, taking place this Monday, March 22nd from 2:15-3:45 pm at the Omni Shorham in Woodley Park. We’d love to have you join us for this, or any other session. Please RSVP to me and note which of the following you would like to attend:

Panel on Reproductive Rights

Featuring:      Gretchen Borchelt, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center

                          Helene Krasnoff, Senior Staff Attorney, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Lissy Moskowitz, Policy Representative and General Counsel, NARAL Pro-Choice America                                  

Panel on Civil Rights

Featuring:   Marissa Brown, Vice President, Alliance for Justice

            Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Leslie Proll, Director of the Washington Office, NAACP LDF

Panel on Religion/State Separation

Featuring:      Michael Lieberman, Washington Counsel, Anti-Defamation League

                        Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate, Contributing Editor at Newsweek

                        Judith E. Schaeffer, Vice President, Constitutional Accountability Center

Panel on the Environment

Featuring:     David Bookbinder, Chief Climate Counsel, The Sierra Club

                        Leslie Carothers, President and Chairman, Environmental Law Institute

                        Glenn Sugameli, Staff Attorney, Defenders of Wildlife

 

For more information on the conference and our other sessions, please visit our website:

www.ncjw.org/wix