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Past Events - Lectures, Workshops
& Forums
10:45 AM, Saturday, Aug.
24, 2002, "Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness."
Dr. Rodney Brooks, Member of EyeOnThePost.org
The brief message will be part of the regular Saturday morning service,
and will be devoted to The Washington Post's coverage of the Mideast
conflict. Journalistic Codes of Ethics will be presented and used as a
basis for categorizing specific violations that have occurred at The
Washington Post. A question and answer session will follow.
Tifereth Israel
7701 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20012
Services begin at 9:30 AM. The talk begins around 11:00 AM. Tifereth
Israel is located at 7701 16th Street, about a mile below the
intersection with Ga. Ave. From the Beltway, go South on Ga. Ave., stay
to the right and after a few lights turn Right onto 16th St. Go through
a traffic circle, go 6-8 blocks farther and look for the shul on your
Left. We usually park on side streets to the right, where it's easier
to find a spot, and then walk across to the shul.
7:30 PM, Tuesday,
September 17, 2002, "Accuracy in the Media: You Shall Not Bear False
Witness."
Peter Hébert, Member of EyeOnThePost.org
A multimedia presentation on media bias as it specifically relates to
The Washington Post's coverage on Palestinian terrorism and Israel's
self defense. This presentation will be a fundraiser for Magen David
Adom.
Rockville Jewish Community Center
6125 Montrose Road
Rockville, Maryland 20852
7:30 PM, Thursday,
September 19, 2002, "Accuracy in the Media: You Shall Not Bear False
Witness."
Peter Hébert, Member of EyeOnThePost.org
A multimedia presentation on media bias as it specifically relates to
The Washington Post's coverage on Palestinian terrorism and Israel's
self defense. This presentation will be a fundraiser for Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem.
Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation
1441 Wiehle Avenue
Reston, Virginia 20190
Tuesday, September 23,
2003 at 8:00 P.M. at
the Jewish Community Center
of Greater Washington, "Is the
Washington Post Fair and Impartial in Its Reporting On Israel?"
6125 Montrose Road,
Rockville, Maryland
Featured speakers:
David Bernstein, director
of the DC American Jewish Committee, who has often written and
spoken on the subject of the media's coverage of events in Israel, will
discuss the American Jewish Committee's study of The Washington Post
(and other papers).
Joshua Muravchik of the
American Enterprise Institute, author of "COVERING THE INTIFADA,
How the Media Reported the Palestinian Uprising," a study of the
coverage of 10 specific episodes of "Intifada 2" by the
Washington Post, the New York Times and 5 TV channels, published
recently by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. From the
introduction of Dr. Muravchik's book: "[O]bsessive or one-sided
criticism of Israeli policies may reflect a deeper animosity to the
state."
* A recent article by Dr. Muravchik: "Unfair and Unbalanced,"
Weekly Standard, 9/22 at
http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.19184,filter./news_detail.asp
Eric Rozenman, director of
the DC branch of CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America), will moderate the forum and will offer
his own important insights on the problem.
Please attend and tell everyone you know with an interest in the
problem of accuracy and fairness in Middle East reporting to plan to
attend.
Thursday, May 20, 2004, 7:30 P.M. at B'nai Israel Congregation,
6301 Montrose Road Rockville, MD 20852
EyeOnThePost,
Inc. Announces: "Anti-Israel Bias in the Media:
Three
Former or Current News Editors Respond"
A Panel Discussion
Jonathan Tobin, Editor-in-chief of both
the Philadelphia Jewish
Exponent and Inside, a quarterly magazine, former executive editor of
the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, award-winning columnist on politics and
world affairs in more than 30 Jewish newspapers.
Eric Rozenman,
Washington director for CAMERA, former executive editor
of B'nai B'rith's International Jewish Monthly magazine, former editor
of the Washington Jewish Week, former editor of Near East Report,
former reporter for the Ohio Scripps-Howard Newspapers.
Debra Rubin,
Editor of the Washington Jewish Week, past president of
the American Jewish Press Association, longtime managing editor of the
New Jersey Jewish News and award-winning journalist and recipient of
honors from various local and national press organizations.
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