Strengthening Israel’s Democracy:  Arab Citizens of Israel
Second Annual Community Education Day
January 22, 2012
American University, Ward Circle Building

Free with RSVP
$5 at the door for anyone without American University Student or Staff ID

As of 11/4/2011

Opening Plenary
“Israel: A Nation of All of its Citizens” with Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, Director, AJEEC – Arab Jewish Center for Equality Empowerment and Cooperation, and Shalom (Shuli) Dichter, Executive Director, Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel.  Moderated by Ami Nahshon, President and CEO, The Abraham Fund Initiatives

Workshops              (select 2 out of 4)              

Aspiring to Equality: Overcoming Discrimination with Aviva Meyer, Associate Director, New Israel Fund, and Ami Nahshon,
President and CEO, The Abraham Fund Initiatives

What Does Israeli Citizenship Mean? with Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, Director, AJEEC – Arab Jewish Center for Equality Empowerment and Cooperation; Professor Yoram Peri, Kay Chair in Israeli Studies and Director, Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland

Advancing Shared Society through Arab Jewish Partnerships with Yaniv Sagee, Incoming Executive Director, Givat Haviva; Vivian Silver, Co-Executive Director, NISPED -- Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development

Education and Economic Empowerment: The Building Blocks of Equality with Shalom (Shuli) Dichter, Executive Director, Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel and Judge Ellen Heller, Trustee, Harry & Jeannette Weinberg Foundation; past President and Chair, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Closing Session:
Town Hall Meeting
Moderated by Rabbi Sid Schwarz, co-chair, Greater Washington Forum on Israeli Arab Issues

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