YOUNG ISRAEL OF HILLCREST 169-07 Jewel Avenue Hillcrest, N. Y. 11365 718-969-2990
The Young Israel of Hillcrest
cordially invites the entire community to the Annual Memorial Observance for the Six Million Martyrs & Remembrance Day for Jewish Martyrdom and Heroism
with keynote speaker Caroline Glick and featuring Mrs. Eva Lux Braun
(see speakers’ biographies on back)
Saturday night, April 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM sharp at the Young Israel of Hillcrest
Thank You to the Supporters for this Evening’s Commemoration
Patrons Sponsors Miriam & Shopsy Kanarek Anita & Gunther Adler Shirley & Sam Mandel Erica & Kevin Leifer Pat & Harry Aftel Paula & William Mandell Esther Wertenteil Ilana & David Amar Susan & Milton Ottensoser Ruth & Moshe Ballabon Rozanne Rosenthal Delores & Moishe Dolnane Bonnie & Hank Staiman Goldie & Heshey Greenberger Torah Center of Hillcrest Anita & Arie Kepets Utopia Jewish Center Janet & George Klein Rochelle & Michael Zabusky
Dr. Richard Weiss Kevin Leifer Marc Katz, Chair Rabbi President Heshey Spitzer Yom Hashoa Commemoration Committee
Caroline Glick Caroline B. Glick grew up in Chicago. She made Aliyah to Israel in 1991, two weeks after receiving her BA in Political Science from Columbia University. She joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years.
From 1994-1996, as an IDF captain, Ms. Glick served in the Defense Ministry as a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians. Ms. Glick then served as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (1997-1998), and from 1998 through 2000, Ms. Glick studied at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and received a Master’s in Public Policy in June 2000.
In the summer of 2000 Ms. Glick returned to Israel and began writing at Makor Rishon newspaper, (Hebrew). She served as chief diplomatic commentator for Makor Rishon until January 2008.
In March 2002, Ms. Glick joined The Jerusalem Post as the newspaper’s Deputy Managing Editor and senior columnist. Today, as Senior Contributing Editor, Ms. Glick writes two columns each week that are regularly syndicated.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Ms. Glick covered the US-led invasion of Iraq as an embedded journalist with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Reporting for the Post, Maariv, Israel TV’s Channel 2 and the Chicago Sun Times, Ms. Glick was one of the only female journalists on the front lines with the US forces and the first Israeli journalist to report from liberated Baghdad.
Ms. Glick’s writings, which have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Journal of International Security Affairs, Commentary, and many other publications, focus on the strategic and political issues challenging the Israel and the United States. Ms. Glick has appeared on MSNBC, FOX News, Sky News, Christian Broadcast Network, Israel Television channels 1, 2, 3 and 10. She is a frequent guest on talk radio shows in the US, Britain, Australia and Israel. She blogs at her website www.carolineglick.com.
Ms Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and travels several times a year to Washington where she routinely briefs senior administration officials and members of Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern. Through the Center for Security Policy, Ms. Glick founded the popular Hebrew media satire website latma.co.il where she writes a regular blog and serves as editor in chief.
Ms. Glick served as a researcher at the IDF’s Operational Theory Research Institute from 2004-2006 and is a frequent lecturer at IDF and American military staff and command colleges.
On Israeli Independence Day in 2003, Ma’ariv named Ms. Glick the most prominent woman in Israel. In December 2005, Ms. Glick was awarded the Ben Hecht award for Middle East reporting from the Zionist Organization of America. In January 2006, she was awarded the Abramowitz Prize for Media Criticism by Israel Media Watch. In May 2009 Ms. Glick was awarded the Guardian of Zion award by Bar Ilan University.
Under her leadership Latma has won the Jewish Peoplehood Award from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Media Watch’s People’s Choice Award for Media Criticism.
Her book, Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad was released by Gefen publishers in March 2008 and is currently in its third printing.
Ms. Glick lives in Mevasseret Zion with her family.
Eva Lux Braun Eva Lux Braun was born in 1927 to Isaac and Devora Lux in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. She was the oldest of three daughters.
Eva, a teenager, survived the concentration camps and Nazi brutality with G-d’s help and learned to overcome life’s adversities through faith and perseverance. Eva credits her parents for teaching her how to be a good person. She rejoices in the beautiful family that she has been blessed with.
Eva has shared with thousands her story of how she saved her sister Vera (Strauss) and her concentration camp “sister” Miriam (Brach), having spoken candidly to numerous Kristallnacht and Yom Hashoa remembrance gatherings, and to audiences of middle and high school students. For 15 years, she volunteered as a guide at Yad Vashem. Her story was the subject of an article in Oprah’s Magazine and of an interview on Channel 7, ABC news.
Chavi Diamond also published Eva’s story in a graphically illustrated book “The Promise”.
Eva’s memoirs appear in a German chronicle/biography “Ich War Und Ich Bin Eine Stolze Judin” (I was and am a proud Jew), by Anning Lehmeensiek.