Har Shalom Daytimers
Upcoming Daytimers Events:
Daytimers Forum With a few exceptions, due to Holidays, the Forums convene on the second Wednesday of each month, September to June. Sessions start at 12:00 noon. Attendees may bring a pareve or dairy brown-bag lunch. Beverages and desserts are provided. Programs start promptly at 12:30 pm.
June 16, 12:30 pm, David Makovsky
A fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Makovsky is the co-author with Dennis Ross of the book Myths, Illusions, & Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East. A book-signing will follow his talk.The situation in the Middle East is deadly, with Israel under siege but strongly defiant. What should Israel do? What role can the U.S. play? These are among the critical questions that will be addressed in an up-to-the-minute briefing on MIDDLE EAST CHALLENGES FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. A foremost expert on the Middle East, Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and director of its Near East Policy Project on the Middle East Peace Process. In addition, he is an adjunct lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of International Studies.
Makovsky is the co-author, with senior White House advisor Dennis Ross, of a highly-acclaimed book "Myths, Illusions, & Peace: Finding New Directions for America in the Middle East," which will be available for book-signing following his talk. His commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict appears in numerous major publications. He is a frequent guest on television news programs. An award-winning journalist, our speaker earlier was an executive editor of The Jerusalem Post and a diplomatic correspondent for Israel's leading daily, Haaretz. This will be the final forum in our spring 2010 series.
Our fall series begins on Wednesday, September 22, our 15th anniversary year -- we're calling it our "Jubilee Year" -- when we hope to invite back some of the outstanding speakers from past forums to offer their current views on timely issues. For further information, contact Selma or Jerry Miller
daytimers@harshalom.org.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 12 pm.
Baruch Spinoza's religious views shocked the world and still influences us today. His excommunication from the Jewish community is the subject of a gripping and extremely witty drama on stage at the Goldman Theater in the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. The play, which The New York Times called "an engrossing primer on Spinoza's radical thinking," is called "New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656."
We hope you can join us for this matinee performance, Please print and complete the RSVP for found here, and mail to the address as shown.
Daytimers Jewish Film Festival The Daytimers Jewish Film Festival is held on the third Wednesday of each month, November through March
The Jewish Film Festival has completed for this season, please look for new films in the fall.
We look forward to seeing you at these exciting events.
The Daytimers at Fourteen
The first brown-bag Har Shalom Daytimers Forum was held in September, 1995. In the months and years that followed, scores of distinguished speakers -- diplomats, politicians, journalists, scholars, artists -- have addressed a broad range of provocative social, cultural, political, and economic issues.
There have been some surprises. A globe-trotting foreign correspondent chose to discuss Jewish comedians. An author described his latest book; a week later it won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. And the lively discussion following each talk often have revealed unexpected views.
Daytimers programming soon expanded to include other popular activities, including:
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Fascinating Museum tours, most notably to view new exhibitions at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Theater parties in conjunction with Theater J at the D.C. Jewish Community Center.
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An annual Jewish Film Festival, with outstanding films from Israel, Europe, and the U.S.
