Jerusalem Post reporter to speak on Peninsula
Etgar Lefkovitz, a staff writer for the Jerusalem Post, will speak next week about his reporting experiences in Israel.
His speech is part of a lecture series called “Voices from Israel,” which is sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel. The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and the Jewish Community Relations Council are co-sponsors.
Lefkovitz’s lecture will be held 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, at Peninsula Temple Beth El, 1700 Alameda de Las Pulgas, San Mateo.
A Chicago native, Lefkovitz served as the senior assistant to New York Times Israel bureau chief Serge Schmemann before becoming a writer with the Jerusalem Post. He is the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent.
Admission is $5. For information, call consulate spokesman Jarad Bernstein at (415) 844-7507.
Hebrew University reps to speak
Dr. Gadi Glaser, director of the Hebrew University Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, and Peter Willner, executive vice president of American Friends of the Hebrew University, will be guests at two area gatherings for alumni and supporters of the university.
The gatherings will take place 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, in Palo Alto and at 12 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8.
For information on the gatherings, contact Roxanne Cohen at (415) 348-0604 or [email protected]. Cohen recently became the senior development executive in the Bay Area for American Friends of Hebrew University.
Israeli Jewish and Arab college students pay Bay Area visit
Rivka Taylor and Sabrin Odeh, students at Tel Hai’s Center for Peace and Democracy, spoke in two locations in the Bay Area this week.
Taylor, 23, is from the religious settlement of Bet El near Jerusalem and is an education major at Tel Hai Academic College, with a double focus on special education and education for democracy and peace.
Odeh, 22, is a Christian Arab from Nazareth and is a student of special education at Tel Hai. Both are very active in Tel Hai’s Jewish Arab Dialogue program and volunteer within their communities, working with disadvantaged and disabled children. They were brought to the Bay Area by the Israel Overseas Committee of the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation.