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ZOA’s 114th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner in NYC

Top Left: Mark Langfan, Justice Louis D. Brandeis Awardee; Steve Goldberg, ZOA Vice-Chairman of the National Board; Martin Gross, ZOA Dinner Co-Chair and President, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Morton A. Klein, President, Zionist Organization of America; Dr. Alan Mazurek, Master of Ceremonies and Chairman of the ZOA’s National Advisory Council; Dr. Michael Goldblatt, ZOA Chairman of the National Board. Bottom Left: William K. Langfan, Justice Louis D. Brandeis Awardee; Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL); Dr. Irving and Cherna Moskowitz, Awardee and Chair, House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Nearly 800 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 114th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Media superstar and seven-time NY Times best-selling author Glenn Beck, U.S. Congresswoman and House Foreign Relations Committee Chair, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) were keynote speakers at the Dinner at which they were also honored.

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No Linkage Between Settlements and Peace

View of Maaleh Adumim and the Jordan River Valley from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. No linkage to peace. Photo: Kanan Abramson

The aggressive anti-Israeli propaganda is growing from within by the Israeli extreme left and, of course, from abroad, including some of Israel's friends, many U.N. members, African, Latin-American and some European countries. Many Muslim or Arab countries, such as Iran, do not deny their hate and often do not deny their desire to annihilate Israel as a Jewish state. It is a new modern form of genocide.


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Building a Muslim-Jewish Alliance

Building a global Muslim-Jewish alliance. At the Resource center for Jewish Diversity with (from left) Rabbi Marc Schneier, Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, and Imam Muhammad Shamsi Ali.

On November 17, at the 92nd St. Y in Manhattan, an event was held to promote Jewish-Muslim communication, reconciliation and cooperation. A panel consisting of Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali and moderated by Professor Mehnaz Afridi sat and discussed the hopes and strategies needed to accomplish those lofty goals.


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Celebrate Einstein

The Wailing Wall in Old Jerusalem on 'Jerusalem Day' in June, 2011. Tens of thousands of Israeli youth celebrated the day in the Capital to commemorate its liberation during the Six Day War in June of 1967. Photo: Kanan Abramson

The National Women's Division and Men's Division of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University honored two preeminent leaders with the first "Einstein Lifetime Leadership Award" for their extraordinary contributions to supporting the mission of Einstein, one of the nation's premier centers for biomedical research and medical education. The awards were presented to Linda Altman and Arnold S. Penner at the "Celebrate Einstein" dinner on Wednesday, November 16, at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. The event was emceed by Bruce Beck, lead sports anchor for WNBC in New York, and featured entertainment by Neil Sedaka.


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Jews and Shoes

From left: Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the UN; Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea; Rabbi Arthur Schneier; and Paul Volcker, Former Chairman of Federal Reserve.

"A few years ago, I was at a conference in Toronto. There was a Shoe Museum across the street… I said to myself, 'Let's go see what they have there'", Dr. Edna Nahshon, a residence of NYC told Haaretz, Israeli newspaper. She also remarked: "The first images that came to my mind were the pictures of the piles of shoes of the Holocaust victims."


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