Lectures/Newsletters






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

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 four 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"