JPR Dinner in honour of Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

Dr John Sentamu receives the JPR Golden Jubilee Award

On 4 June 2008 JPR held a dinner at Glaziers Hall, London Bridge, in honour of The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. Lord Haskel, JPR President, presented the Archbishop with the Golden Jubilee Arward in recognition of his outstanding contribution to public life. The Archbishop delivered an address on The Role of Religion in Politics Today which you can read here in full www.archbishopofyork.org/1841.

Previous recipients of the JPR Golden Jubilee Award have included Lord Goodman, Dr Henry Kissinger, His Royal Highness Prince El-Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan, William Frankel CBE, Lord Woolf and James Wolfensohn KBE.

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jpr/blog: Europe's Jews deserve better

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You wouldn’t know it from the ignorance and unjustified alarmism about Europe in Israel and America, but European Jewish...

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The Jews of Europe and the Israel-Palestine conflict

Mark Goldberg and Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy recently gave a lecture to a JPR audience about the Israel-Palestine conflict and how it affects the Jews of Europe. A former advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, he was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative and is currently the Director of Prospects for Peace Initiative and Senior Fellow of the Century Foundation and of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. The lecture was chaired by JPR Board Member Mark Goldberg.

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Multiculturalism: bringing us together or driving us apart?

Participants at the Multiculturalism round table

A round table discussion organized jointly by JPR and the Runnymede Trust was held in March to examine the various critiques of multiculturalism and the arguments in its defence. The aim was to consider whether multiculturalism can be made relevant again for 21st century Britain or whether it needs to be replaced.

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Is there a global Jewish politics?

Lena Stanley-Clamp, Professor Michael Galchinsky and June Jacobs

Michael Galchinsky, Professor of English and Director of the Jewish Studies program at Georgia State University, presented a paper at a JPR seminar in June exploring whether there is such a thing as global Jewish politics. Professor Galchinsky co-edited (with David Biale and Susannah Heschel) Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism and is the author of The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England. His most recent book Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings (2007) was one of the first to investigate the juncture of international/ transnational studies and Jewish studies.

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Is Europe good for the Jews?

Dr Diana Pinto, Tony Lerman and Dr Steven Beller

Is Europe today uniquely favourable or uniquely threatening to Jews? This was the question examined by a seminar held in April to launch Dr Steven Beller’s JPR policy debate paper, entitled Is Europe good for the Jews? Jews and the pluralist tradition in historical perspective. At the seminar Dr Beller presented some of the arguments he outlined in his paper, and a response was given by Dr Diana Pinto. The discussion was chaired by Antony Lerman, JPR’s Executive Director. The seminar was attended by a wide range of academics, Jewish communal professionals and rabbis.

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