Lecture Series
The Congregation Beth Israel Lecture series was created to bring world renowned speakers to Lebanon to enrich the cultural life of our community.
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)
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.