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.