ISRAEL LEARNING SEMINAR
This program, given by outstanding academic specialists and open to students and adults, is designed to provide knowledge and skills enabling community members to oppose current efforts, on- and off-campuses, to delegitimate the democratic Jewish state.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016,19:30
CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL
AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
By Prof. Aurel Braun, International Relations and Political Science, U. of Toronto
Aurel Braun is currently a Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is a senior member of the Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and of the Centre for International Studies, and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Between July 2012 and June 2015 he was a Visiting Professor teaching in the Department of Government, Harvard University. Professor Braun has twice been appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In March 2009, the Federal Cabinet via a Governor-in-Council appointment made Professor Braun the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & Democracy) for a three-year term. In December 2012, Professor Braun was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to Canada and for academic distinction by the Governor-General of Canada. Professor Braun has published extensively on communist affairs and strategic studies with a special focus on the problems of the transformation of the socialist systems in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe. He is also a specialist in international law. He is the author and/or editor of several books. His latest book is NATO-Russia Relations in the 21st Century. His forthcoming book is on Russia, the West and Arctic Security.
Location:
Beth Tikvah Synagogue, 3080 Bayview Ave., Toronto, Ont. M2N5L3
Admission is free
For information and registration, call Beth Tikvah, 416 – 221 – 3433
or CIJR 1– 855 – 303 – 5544 or register online
