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A Special Virtual Event

AUDACIOUS AMBITION Honoring AJC CEO David Harris 
for 30 Years of Reimagining Global Jewish Advocacy

Thirty years ago, David Harris took the reins at AJC and revolutionized global Jewish advocacy. He had a vision for something bigger and bolder, and that vision is now a reality. Under David’s leadership, AJC has become the most influential and transformational force advancing Jewish interests throughout the world.

The current pandemic has slowed the global economy. It has exposed the interdependence inherent in global supply chains. Will things snap back when the concerns over the virus subside? Join us for a discussion with Thorsten Benner, co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute, and Shannon O’Neil, the Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about globalization in volatile times. 

AJC Philadelphia/Southern NJ and the Dialogue Institute-Journal of Ecumenical Studies invite you to attend a half-day tour and dialogue experience to explore the relationship between religion, race, and civil rights in early Philadelphia history.

Participants in this program will:

What is the legacy of the Cold War? Three historians debate. With comment by David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated in the United States since 1988, when President Ronald Reagan signed a law that officially recognized the presence of Latinos in the country and acknowledged the substantial contributions they have made to the U.S. society ever since the inception of the republic.

What truly caused the Civil War? The Director of The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University, the Associate Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and a Park Ranger and historian for the Civil War Defenses of Washington will discuss.

On Wednesday, October 30th from 7–8:30 p.m., a panel of historians will convene on Villanova’s campus for our next event in our Revisionist History series, “Revising the Civil War.”