Shabbat Service & Levine Lecture with the Choir.

Please join us for our annual Levine Lecture and service, featuring guest speaker Tom Dine.
Dissent in the Jewish Community - Disaster or Opportunity?

Thomas A. Dine will speak on the growing split in the American pro- Israel community over U.S. policy toward Israel as personified by the approaches of AIPAC (American Israel Political Action Committee) and J-Street (political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans). This issue is creating tense conversations among family and friends and is causing concern about dissension within the contemporary American Jewish community. Is this a crisis? Is there a resolution?

Dine has written and spoken extensively on American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as on the US-Israeli Relationship.

Tom Dine has a history of service to his country and his community.
• He began his career in foreign affairs and the politics of foreign policy as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines (1962-64).
• He served as personal assistant to Ambassador Chester Bowles in the American Embassy in New Delhi, India (1967-69)
• was legislative assistant for foreign policy to US Senator Frank Church (1970-74)
• senior national security analyst for the US Senate Budget Committee (1975-78)
• defense/foreign policy advisor to US Senator Ted Kennedy (1979-80).

His service to the Jewish Community includes
• 13 years as the head of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee –AIPAC-(1980- 1993)
• He subsequently as assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia at the US Agency for International Development.
• He was the longest serving president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague (1997-2005), and CEO briefly of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation (2005-2007).

Dine currently directs Search for Common Ground’s Track II diplomacy effort between Syria and the U.S., having been to Damascus six times in the last two years, and is also a senior advisor to America’s Arab-language television channel, Alhurra TV. He serves on several non-profit boards, including the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Freedom House, American Friends of the Czech Republic, and Artists for Human Rights.

Reservations are not required. All are welcome.