Lectures






The following is a list of annual lectures presented by the Amy Adina Schulman Fund at the Jewish Center, Princeton NJ:  
 

2009 - 

Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  A prize-winning author and recipient of the Rothschild Foundation - Goren Goldstein Award for the Best Book in Jewish Thought, 1997-2000.  Dr. Halbertal has also served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and in the Global Law School Program at New York University.  The talk was titled, "Morality, Strategy, and the War on Terror: Israel and the Goldstone Report."  "In the year 2000, the Israel Defense Forces invited Prof. Halbertal to serve on a committee of lawyers, generals and philosophers to draft a new ethics code for the army!"

 

2008 - 

Gidon Bromberg, founder and Israeli Director of Friends of the Earth - Middle East spoke on "Water and Peace in the Middle East:  Crisis and Opportunity."

Mr. Bromberg and the Palestinian and Jordanian directors of FoE-ME were honored by Time Magazine in 2008 as Heroes of the Environment for their work described as a model for peace and environmental programs in developing cross border community programs between Jordan, the Palestinian Territory, and Israel.    www.foeme.org

2007 -

Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Israel Prize laureate 2006 which described him as “the father of constitutional law in Israel…few can equal his contribution as a public figure, member of the legislative and executive branches of government, and a brilliant researcher and legal expert.”  His topic: The Crisis in Israel ’s Legal System.

2006 -

Rabbi Michael Cohen, founding faculty member of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies located on Kibbutz Ketura; Executive Director of the Arava Institute's North American Office:  "Nature Knows No Boundaries:  How the Environment is a Key to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."

2005 -

Yaron Ezrahi, one of Israel's foremost political theorists examined criteria for change in the Middle East. His topic was "The Clash of Ideology and Necessity in the Israli-Palestinian Conflict." Ezrahi is a noted commentator on Israeli affairs, distinguished by his twin passions for Jewish tradition and the tradition of liberal democracy. He is a professor of political science at Hebrew University, senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israeli Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, and is currently a participant in the drafting of a constitution for Israel.

2004 -

The 17th annual lecture was given by David Horovitz, editor of the award-winning news magazine, The Jerusalem Report. He is a frequent guest on NPR and writes op-ed articles in  The New York Times and other papers. He has written three books: his 1996 biography of Yitzhak Rabin, Shalom Friend, won the U.S. National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction. His topic was "Liberty and Security: Israel in the Age of Terrorism."

2003 -

Dr. Stephen P. Cohen, President of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development, National Scholar at the Israel Policy Forum and foreign policy expert:  "Can there be a Narrative for America, Israel, and the Arab World that Gives Dignity to All Three?"

2002 - Panel of Four Awardees:

Beth Jacowitz - 1st year rabbinical student working with Ethiopian immigrants in Jerusalem during 2001-2002.

Talya Weisbard - Internship with the Jewish Organizing Initiative in Boston; engaged in building bridges between the African American and Irish communities. She has now completed her first year of rabbinical studies.

Aiton Goelman - internship with Israeli Supreme Court; currently serving as an Assistant U. S. Attorney investigating and prosecuting violent gangs in Manhattan, the Bronx, and other counties in the southern New York district.

Dafna Hochman - worked with the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Seeds of Peace projects in Israel. She is now a Deputy Director of theTerrorism Tracking Project at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.

2001 -

Linda Gradstein, National Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist from Israel and the Middle East:   "Linda Gradstein Reports..."

2000 -

Dr. Menachem Lorberbaum,  Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study  in Princeton and lecturer at Tel Aviv University:   "Beyond Clericalism?  Religion and State in Israel"


1999 -

Dr. Ruth Gavison,  Professor, Hebrew University, and founder and president of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI):  "Can Israel be  both Democratic and Jewish?"

Dr. Deborah Dwork,  Professor and Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University: "Hidden Children of the Holocaust"


1998 -

Rabbi Amy Klein,  Reconstructionist rabbi living in Jerusalem and working with Rabbis for Human Rights:   "Jewish Unity: Religious Conformity or Diversity"

1997 -

Presentations by five awardees who volunteered in different areas:

1996 -

Dr. Alice Shalvi,  Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University, and founder and chair of the  Israel Women's Network: "The Israeli Agenda Today: A Guide to the Perplexed"

1995 -

Dr. Sidra Ezrahi,  Professor, Hebrew University, and author:  "Jerusalem: Sacred Center and Bloody Intersection"

1994 -

Dr. Najat Arafat Khelil,  President of the Arab Women's Council, and Judith Stern Peck, Chair of the national UJA program examining Diaspora-Israeli  relations; both participants in "The Dialogue Project" in the US

1993 -

Dr. Naomi Chazan,  Knesset member and chair of the Truman Institute at Hebrew University:  "Can the Middle East Peace Talks Lead to Peace?"

1992 -

Dr. Janet Aviad,  Professor, Hebrew University, and Israeli Director of the Charles R. Bronfman Foundation: "The Impact of Orthodoxies on the Israeli Elections and the Peace Negotiations"

1991 -  

Merle Feld,   Playwright and poet: "Poems, Dialogues, Struggling with the Other: Tracing One Woman's Journey in Jerusalem"

1990 - 

Yael Dayan,   Knesset member, author, and journalist:  "Israelis and Palestinians: Moving Beyond the Status Quo"

1989 -  

Dr. Galia Golan,  Professor, Hebrew University, and a founder of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now): "Women and Peace in Israel"

1988 -

Dr. Alice Shalvi,  first invited lecturer: "Out of the Wilderness into the Promised Land: Israel's Women after 40 Years of Statehood"