To The Editor
February 22, 2011
Hi Rhonda. Great meeting you tonight and hearing your presentation at our synagogue [re: your reporting from Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem]. I wanted to invite you to speak at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington ‘s annual community-wide grass-roots Israel advocacy training program, which has Special briefings with Washington Insiders, plus hands-on breakout sessions!
(Hopefully you can be one of those"insiders".)
Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011; Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Upper School campus,
11710 Hunters Lane, Rockville, MD Time: 1-5 PM
Regards,
Phil Sinsky www.jcouncil.org/shapethedebate.
The program for the JCRC’s community-wide grass roots advocacy training program is below:
Israel Advocacy Training Institute:
Shaping the Debate
Sunday February 27, 2011
1 pm – 5 pm
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (JDS) Upper School Campus
11710 Hunters Lane Rockville, MD
Opening Plenary featuring keynote speakers:
Dr. Robert Satloff – Executive Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Jonathan Peled
Spokesperson for the Embassy of Israel to the United States
Hilary Krieger
Washington Bureau Chief for The Jerusalem Post
Steve Rabinowitz
President of Rabinowitz / Dorf Communications
Workshop sessions featuring:
• Israel’s Image in the Media: How to Write Letters to the Editor
with Washington Director of CAMERA Eric Rozenman
• Political Involvement: Building Relationships with Members of Congress beyond Washington
with AIPAC’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Director Brian Shankman
• I Engage: The Liberal Conversation about Israel
with Director of The David Project David Bernstein
• Words that Work: Positive Messaging about Israel
with The Israel Project’s Senior Director, Communications and Research Alan Elsner
• On Campus: Supporting our Students in the Fight Against Delegitimization
with Executive Director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and author of Myths and Facts Mitchell Bard and StandWithUs East Coast Campus Coordinator Avi Gordon
• Building Alliances in the Christian Community
with Vice President of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs Ethan Felson and Reverend Katharine
Henderson, President Auburn Theological Seminary
Registration required. $18. free for students
Editor’s response:
Thank you Phil for this invitation. My appearance at your synagogue on February 22 was arranged at the request of an Israeli journalist on learning I would be in town, and I am especially pleased that you found my my reports on visiting Palestinian refugee camps near Bethlehem, Ramallah and East Jerusalem of interst and my analysis of the Israeli-palestinian conflict.
I am honoured that you thought to include me in your tp notch line up on such little notice.
Unfortunately, since I am in Washington to cover the J-Street Conference my schedule for Sunday Feb 27, 2010 is already completely booked. However, please invite me again next year and I will prepare a complete presentation with photographs and a power point presentation for your community’s Israel advocacy program.