CBI/Steven P. Buzgon Lecture Series

Series on Hiatus 2026-2027

The 2026 Lebanon County Reads author, Virginia Evans (“The Correspondent”) is booked more than 12 months in advance and is unavailable to speak to us this season.

Therefore, with regret, The Congregation Beth Israel /Steven P. Buzgon Lecture Series will be on hiatus this season and there will be no lecture in 2026-27.

Look for us again in 2027-28!

The Congregation Beth Israel, Steven P. Buzgon Lecture Series was created to bring world renowned speakers to Lebanon to enrich the cultural life of our community.

Please contact our office if you’d like to be added to our e-mail lecture list for future speaker events!

Previous speakers:

• Elie Wiesel (1987)
• Madam Jehan el-Sadat (1988)
• Dr. Joyce Brothers (1989)
• Wolf Blitzer (1990)
• Elliot Abrams (1991)
• Rabbi Harold Kushner (1992)
• Dr. Sonya Friedman (1993)
• the Hon. Jeane Kirkpatrick (1994)
• the Hon. William A. Brown (1995)
• Leon Uris (1996)
• Carl Bernstein (1997)
• Lawrence Eagleberger (1998)
• William Kristol (1999)
• Judith Viorst (2000)
• Alan Dershowitz (2001)
• Morton Kondracke (2003)
• The God Squad (Rev. Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman and Rabbi Marc A. Gellman, Ph.D)(2004)
• Lisa Myers (2006)
• The Faith Club (Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner) (2008)
• Rodger Kamenetz (2009)
• Geraldine Brooks (2010)
• Markus Zusak (2011)
• Ronald Cotton & Jennifer Thompson (2013)
• Steven Galloway (2014)
• Christina Baker Kline (2015)
• Forrest Pritchard (2016)
• Elizabeth Wein (2017)
• Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie (2018)
• Stephen Kiernan (2019)
• Chris McDougall (2021)
• Viki Zarkin (2022)
• Shelby van Pelt (2023)
• Rachel Beanland (2024)
• Mikki Brammer (2025)

We appreciate your support of this non-profit series. Your generosity enables us to present these personalities to the public at a reasonable price. Thank you.