Is It 1938 Again?

Conference on the State of World Jewry

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Welcome
1_Opening_Remarks
Dr. James Muyskens, President, queens College, CUNY
Congressman Anthony Weiner

Back to the Future: is it 1938 Again?
2_Malcolm Hoenlien, Executive Vice Chair, Conference of Presidents of
Major jewish Organizations
3_Leonard Fein, Syndicated Columnist, The Forward
4_Discussion_1


Choosing Between Right & Left:
Is a Unified and Coherent Jewish Political Front Possible?

5_Prof. Irving Louis Horowitz, Hannah Arendt University Professor Emeritus
Of Sociology and Political Science, Rutger University
6_Prof. Michael Walzer, Center for Advanced Study, Princeton; Editor, Dissent
7_Prof. Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harward Law School
8_Discussion_2

From Tel Aviv to New york:
Dealing with the Iranian Nuclear Threat

9_Norman Podhoretz,
Editor at Large, Commentary Magazine. Q&A

The Ethical Limits of Diaspora Jewry's Criticism
of Israel in matters of National Security

10_Prof. Moshe Halbertal
, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11_Blu Greenberg, Founder, One Voice: Jewish Women for Israel
12_Jeff_Helmreich, Georgetown University
13_Micah Goodman, The Shalom Hartman Institute
14_Discussion_4

Monday, April 23, 2007

Saving American Jewry:
Demography, Politics & Destiny
15_Prof. Jack Wertheimer, Provost, Jewish Theological Seminary and Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History
16_Lawrence Grossman, Executive Editor, American Jewish Yearvbbok
17_Prof. Samuel Heilman, Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and Distinguished Professor at Queens College, CUNY
18_Discussion2_1

Facing Armageson:
Evangelist and the Jews
19_Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, Founder and President, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
20_Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of reform Judaism

21_Discussion2_2

Europe, Islam and the Future of European Jewry
22_David Pryce-Jones, Senior Editor, The National Review

Siamese Twins: American Jews & Israel
Can One Survive Without the Other

23_Hillel Halkin, Contributing Editor, The New York Sun
24_David A. Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
25_Prof. Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Darthmouth College
26_Discussion2_4

Closing Remarks: is it 1938 Again?
27_David Schimel, Conference Chair, Editor the Jewish Political Chronicle


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