The 60^th Annual Meeting & Celebration

The Greater Boston Chapter of the American Jewish Committee would like to thank everyone who supported our chapter by attending our 60^th Annual Meeting & Celebration on September 14^th.

Over 350 people were in attendance, including numerous leaders of the Greater Boston Jewish community, diplomats from 16 countries, and 12 professors from the Al Qasemi College of Education in Israel, which promotes a traditional commitment to Islam with the human rights values that flow from modernity.

Speakers at the event included David A. Harris, national Executive Director of AJC; Charles Steinberg, head of public affairs for the Boston Red Sox; Jim Kaufman, immediate past president of the AJC Greater Boston chapter; and Andrea Bonaiuto of Needham High School, recipient of this year’s Sherman H. Starr Human Relations Youth Award.

Top row: AJC Executive Director Larry Lowenthal, President Ken Levine, and Past President Jim Kaufman; Visiting scholars from Al Qasemi College in Israel.

2^nd row: Larry Lowenthal and Charles Steinberg; Ned Dubilo, David Squire, Stanley Snider (past president), Maryann Snider, and Pat Squire.

3^rd Row: Board members Eric & Roxanne Berman, Eleanor White, & Wendy Mnookin; Michael Goldberg (past president), Jim Kaufman, Consul General of Germany Wolfgang Vorwerk, Consul General of Belgium Alain Marcuse, & Leonard Learner.

Bottom row: Board members Rick Mann (past president), Michael Tichnor, Sid Lejfer, and Mayor David Cohen of Newton; a view of the celebration itself in the Boston Marriott Copley Place.