The Community Relations Council is the public affairs arm of the organized Tidewater Jewish community. It represents the area synagogues and Jewish agencies on issues impacting the rights and protection of Jews as individuals and as a community. The CRC works to educate the community on public affairs issues and translates these issues into community action with the greater community, public officials, other faith and ethnic communities and the media.

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Thursday, May 23rd 7:00pm

David Makovsky is the Senior Fellow and Director of The Washington Institute’s Project on the Middle East Peace Process. An award-winning journalist, Mr. Makovsky is a former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post and was a diplomatic correspondent for Haaretz. Often called upon by the media to comment on the peace process and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mr. Makovsky is the coauthor of the 2009 bestseller Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction in the Middle East with Dennis Ross. Mr. Makovsky is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Affairs and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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