Temple B’nai Israel, The Satell Center for Jewish Life on the Eastern Shore, presents The 2017 Hal Israel Memorial Lecture on June 14, 2017, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at 101 West Earle Avenue, Easton. The guest speaker is Ira Forman, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, U.S. Department of State.
The Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism advances U.S. foreign policy on anti-Semitism. The position was established by the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) produces the State Department’s annual reports on Human Rights Practices and International Religious Freedom, and the Special Envoy provides input on anti-Semitism for these reports.
Ira N. Foreman was sworn in as special envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism May 20, 2013. Most recently Mr. Forman served as the Jewish Outreach Director for the Obama for America campaign. He served for nearly 15 years as the Executive Director of the National Jewish Democratic Council and spent four years with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee where he worked as Political Director and Legislative Liaison.
Throughout his career he has spoken and written extensively on Jewish history and public policy. Mr. Forman co-edited and wrote for the reference book, Jews In American Politics; writing articles on these topics for the Encyclopedia Judaica. He also staffed and helped edit the volume, Democrats and the American Idea in his role as a Fellow in American Politics and the Economy at the Center for National Policy. Mr. Forman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
RSVP to Nancy (410-822-0553) by June 9, 2017.
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