Education Secretary Paige, Islamic Scholar Lewis to Address ADL National Meeting in Washington, D.C. 4/28/2003
From: Myrna Shinbaum or Todd Gutnick of the Anti-Defamation League, 202-776-9106; Cell: 917-834-7293 or 917-319-0181 News Advisory: WHO: Anti-Defamation League (ADL) WHAT: Annual ADL National Leadership Conference WHERE: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. WHEN: Sunday, April 27 -- Tuesday, April 29 Nearly 500 ADL leaders from across the country will gather for briefings from key government leaders, policymakers, ambassadors and opinion-molders during the annual ADL National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE MEDIA: MONDAY, APRIL 28 GRAND BALLROOM 7:30 A.M. -- Perspectives on Education; Roderick R. Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education 8 A.M. -- Israelis and Palestinians in the Post-Saddam Era; Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and David Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy 10:30 A.M. -- CONCURRENT SESSIONS: -- Combating Global Anti-Semitism (State Room); Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Member, Helsinki Commission; Stuart Schoffman, ADL Koppelman Scholar in Residence and Associate Editor, Jerusalem Report -- Terrorism: Responding to the Threat (East Room); Dale Watson, former Executive Assistant Director and counterterrorism chief, FBI; Stuart Taylor, Senior Writer, National Journal -- Prospects for Democracy in the Arab World (Colonial Room); Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director, Washington Institute; Ambassador Edward S. Walker, President, Middle East Institute; Barbara E. Haig, Vice President, The National Endowment for Democracy -- Gaps in the Wall of Church-State Separation (Chinese Room); Melissa Rogers, former General Counsel, Baptist Joint Committee; Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State 1 P.M., GRAND BALLROOM -- Presentation of the ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, to Bernard Lewis; Acceptance and Keynote Address: "The Crisis of Islam," Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University 2:30 P.M., STATE ROOMS -- From Inside the Beltway; Norman Orenstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Peter Beinart, Editor, The New Republic; Juliet Eilperin, Congressional Correspondent, The Washington Post MONDAY, APRIL 28 7 P.M., GRAND BALLROOM -- Special Remembrance Program, "The Holocaust: Hope from the Ashes"; Presentation of the ADL Courage to Care Award to the people of Riccione, Italy by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, accepted by the Hon. Sergio Vento, Italian Ambassador to the U.S.; Rescue and Survival, Ruth Millman, Survivor from Riccione; KEYNOTE ADDRESS, The Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: Toward Reconciliation and Understanding, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust, Karen Brady, Catholic Educator and Convenor, ADL Bearing Witness Program, Tucson, Arizona TUESDAY, APRIL 29 12:30 P.M., GRAND BALLROOM -- Why Christians Support Israel; Ralph Reed, President, Century Strategies, Co-Chairman, Stand for Israel PRESS AND PHOTO ADVISORY COVERAGE INVITED PRESS CREDENTIALS REQUIRED EDITORS NOTE: Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, and other ADL experts will be available for interviews by appointment. | |