Arab Citizens of Israel — Challenges and Opportunities: A Community Education Day Featured speakers include: Ruth Carmi, director, Arab Civic Equality Project, Israel Religious Action Center and New Israel Fund Law Fellow Mohammad Darawshe, co-director, The Abraham Fund Initiatives Dr. Salman Elbedour, Howard University School of Education Noam Katz, Minister for Public Diplomacy, Embassy of Israel Dr. Elie Rekhess, director, Konrad Adenhauer Center for Jewish- Arab Cooperation Raslan abu Rukon, Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Mid- Atlantic Region (invited) Rabbi Sid Schwarz, founder, PANIM; author, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World Sunday, January 9, 2011 Workshops Topics Include: Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th Street, NW Government Efforts to Narrow Social Inequality through Eco- 12:30 to 5:30 pm nomic Empowerment for Arabs in Israel Registration: 12:30 pm. Program begins at 1:00 pm Avodah Aravit: Arab Israelis on Israel’s Most Popular Sitcom No fee for first 250 advance reserva- Arab Civic Equality and Women’s Empowerment tions: Arab Minority in a Jewish State: Between Integration and Alienation tinyurl.com/IsraeliArabIssues The Israeli Education System: Seeking Parity $5 at the door The Israeli Bedouin Community: The Challenges of Integration Questions? Email: [email protected] Presented by the Greater Washington Forum on Israeli Arab Issues Co-sponsors: The Abraham Fund Initiatives; Adas Israel Congregation; Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation; American Jewish Committee, Washington Regional Office; American University Center for Israel Studies; Anti-Defamation League, Washington Regional Office; B’nai Israel Congregation; Congregation Bet Chesed; Congregation Kol Shalom, Annapolis, MD; Congregation Or Chadash of Damascus, Maryland; Embassy of Israel; Lois and Richard England Family Foundation; Hadassah of Greater Washington; Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life; Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues; JCC of Greater Washington; JCC of Northern Virginia, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington; Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Jewish Federation of Greater Washington; Moment Magazine; Moriah Fund; Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation; New Israel Fund; Orthodox Union; Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Shalom Talmud Torah; Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Sixth & I Historic Synagogue; Temple Shalom, Chevy Chase, MD; The Israel Project; Tikkun Olam Women’s Foundation; University of Maryland Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies; Washington DCJCC; Washington Hebrew Congregation. Made possible by a grant from the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation .