Winter 2010

Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2010: A Report from the Ground
February 8, 8:00 p.m.
Presented by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies, Free, UCSB Campbell Hall


Fall 2009

How America Can Bring Arabs and Israelis Together Towards Peace and Coexistence

David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and co-author with Dennis Ross of the just-released book, Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East in conversation with Ghaith al-Omari, previously Advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and currently Advocacy Director at the American Task Force in Palestine

8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 21, Free
UCSB Campbell Hall

Copresented with Santa Barbara Hillel and the Israel on Campus Coalition, Washington, D.C.

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Anita Diamant
An evening with the author of The Red Tent, Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown and the just-released novel, Day After Night, which is set in
Palestine during the 1940s and which tells the true story of four female
Holocaust survivors rescued from a British-run internment camp who find
salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience as they grapple with life in a new land.

8:00 p.m., Thursday, November 12, Free
UCSB Campbell Hall

Copresented with UCSB Arts & Lectures

Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
One of the best-known pulpit rabbis in America serving at Congregation
Valley Beth Shalom, Founder of Jewish World Watch, and the author of
Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey, winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award "Judaism as a World Religion in a Global Universe"

8:45 a.m., Sunday, December 6
$5.00 Admission to Breakfast and Talk
Congregation B'nai B'rith
1000 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara

Copresented with Sunday Morning Live, Congregation B'nai B'rith

Videos: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/endowed/taubman.html