CANADIAN INSTITUTE
FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
AND
BETH RADOM CONGREGATION
PRESENT IN TORONTO
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
MODERATED BY PROF. FREDERICK KRANTZ
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2016
1:00 PM TO 4:00 PM
FREE ADMISSION
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Address: Beth Radom,18 Reiner Road, North York, ON, M3H 2K9
With the support of:
Featuring:
Prof. Paul Merkley
Professor of History, Emeritus, Carleton University
Born 1934 in Toronto and educated in Toronto schools, concluding with Ph. D. in History from University of Toronto, 1965.
Retired, as of July, 1999, from the full-time teaching faculty of Carleton University, with the rank of Professor of History.
Author of six published books on aspects of Christian theology, politics and history.
Most recent publication has been on the theme of Christian attitudes towards Jews, towards Israel and towards Zionism.
Much of Paul’s recent publication has been of a more polemical or controversial character than his published books and has appeared in Christian denominational periodicals and journals, in journals of opinion, an on various websites and weblogs.
In church circles, he is recognized as an advocate of support for Israel and as a critic of the anti-Israel bias which has become increasingly prominent in institutional Christianity.
Donna Holbrook
National Executive Director, ICEJ Canada
A former teacher, entrepreneur, and stay at home Mom, Donna discovered Israel for her first of now 37 tours to Israel in 1996 with ICEJ. Donna brought new life into the Canadian branch when it was closed of its own accord in spring 2001. As a full time and overtime volunteer in her Executive role, Donna has a heart to build bridges of friendship between the Jewish & Christian community, to help fight the evils of Antisemitism, to educate on God’s eternal promises to Israel for the redemption of all people & to get as many people to Israel as possible, especially young adults where she has seen lives transformed.
Awarded the Meir Medical Center Woman of Valour award in 2006, and the State of Israel Bonds Kesher Award in 20012, she has served on many boards including CIC (now CIJA), Canadian Society of Yad Vashem, Israel & Our Jewish World, currently an advisor on StandWithUs Canada, and board member of HonestReporting Canada. Profiled in Lifestyles New Years 2011, she is quoted in Jewish and Christian press, and currently seen on Vision and Daystar Canada in Inside Israel with ICEJ Canada TV weekly program.
Christine Williams
Award-winning Journalist, author and Public Affairs & Media Consultant, ICEJ Canada
Christine Williams is a journalist, author and Public Affairs and Media Consultant for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem-Canada. She directs and co-produces Inside Israel with ICEJ Canada on Vision TV & Daystar Media weekly. She is a nine-time Int’l Award-winning Journalist and Television Producer. Christine was also a segment host and producer for Canada’s premier Christian Broadcast 100 Huntley Street, in a joint venture between Christian Post in Washington and New York, The World Evangelical Alliance and Crossroads Christian Communications; aired on the former CTS TV and Global TV Network.
Christine holds two federal government appointments, and has served on the anti-semitism task force for Simon Wiesenthal in Toronto and is on the Board of Advisors for Muslims Facing Tomorrow. Christine is also a political columnist and has served on the Board of Governors for The Gatestone Institute; and as a Senior Advisor to The Hudson Institute in New York. Her writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage Magazine, Jihad Watch, USA Today, Metro News, Breaking Israel News and the Middle East Quarterly. Christine has also authored the forthcoming book: The Challenge of Islamic Reform, to be released in Spring by Encounter Books in New York City. It was commissioned by Dr. Daniel Pipes and the Middle East Forum Education Fund.
Lieutenant Colonel Sargis Sangari
Chief Executive Officer, Near East Center for Strategic Engagement LLC
LTC Sangari served twenty years and six months in the United Sates Army Infantry and Special Operations Forces. In the course of six years of continuous combat deployment he conducted 144 combat patrols, 22 Special Forces missions, and two key direct action operations while surviving seven improvised explosive attacks and one enemy checkpoint engagement with no loss of life. He was awarded the Combat Action Badge for his service. He conducted 670 key leader and tribal leader engagements in support of multiple counter-insurgency operations to counter and enemy influence and terrorist activities in the region while writing three major policy papers for the Special Operations Forces and the U.S. Marine Corps on federalism, governance, and civil military operations that were used as guides for conducting civil engagements in Iraq. These policies helped to legitimize three newly elected city councils and the election of two mayors in Al-Anbar province, developments that played an important role in countering enemy influence in the province and which indirectly allowed for a new approach in supporting the Sons of Iraq efforts in Iraq. He also served in a diplomatic post as the Director of Host Nation Affairs in Kuwait.
Upon his retirement from the United States Army, LTC Sangari established the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement on 11 SEP 2014. As of today, NEC-SE articles and related materials have been read and referenced in over 133 countries and in over 2,550,000 news media outlets, academic journals, and by multiple strategic think tanks. Since 2014 NEC-SE has been the military advisory group for the Assyrian Army and its operations in Iraq and Syria and advises the Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) of Japan on the issues and topics related to the Middle East political policies affecting Japanese security requirements concerning terrorist operations and networks. In March of 2015 LTC Sangari also founded the United Assyrian Appeal.org 501.c3 which honors, empowers, and supports Assyrian military families with family members who are fighting against the forces of terror in the Middle East.
LTC Sangari's most recent trip to Iraq and Jordan on 7 October saw him working to promote unity of effort and commonality of purpose between the churches, political parties, and Christian military forces in Iraq. Pursuant to his activities in this regard, he assisted in the steps required which lead to the drafting of a historical, first-of-its kind document, signed by representatives of these groups and blessed by church leaders, that affirmed the binding commitment of the signatories to work as partners to seize and secure their historical homeland of Assyria Nineveh Plain.
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