Nationally syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize
winner Charles Krauthammer will discuss Israel's relations
with its neighboring countries in a lecture scheduled for 6
p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Shriver Hall on the Homewood
campus.
"Israel: A Ray of Hope" is intended to promote a
dialogue on the shared values of freedom and democracy that
connect Israel and the United States. Two Johns Hopkins
juniors, Yonina Alexander of Israel and Bita Azhdam of
Rockville, Md., are chairing the event.
Krauthammer writes a column in the The Washington
Post, which is syndicated in 125 newspapers around the
world, and a monthly essay for Time. He also is a
contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and
The New Republic, serves on the editorial boards of
The National Interest and The Public
Interest, is a weekly panelist on Inside
Washington and contributes to Fox News.
Krauthammer's first career was in medicine. He earned
his medical degree from Harvard University and was
co-discoverer of a form of bipolar disease that continues
to be cited in psychiatric literature. He moved to
Washington, D.C., in 1978 to direct planning in psychiatric
research in the Carter administration and at that time
began contributing articles to The New Republic.
During the 1980 presidential campaign, he served as a
speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale and in 1981
joined The New Republic as a writer and editor. His
writings for that publication won the 1984 National
Magazine Award, the highest award in magazine journalism,
for essays and criticism. In 1987, he won a Pulitzer for
distinguished commentary for his Washington Post
column. In 2001, he was appointed to the President's
Council on Bioethics.
"Israel: A Ray of Hope" is sponsored by alumnus Scott
Black in conjunction with
Hopkins Hillel,
an agency of Hillel of Greater Baltimore, which is
supported by The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of
Baltimore and by Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus
Life. Other supporters of the lecture are CHAI, Jim Winter
Israel Initiative Fund, Office of the Dean of Student Life
at Homewood, FAS, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus
Life and the Baltimore Jewish Times.
A reception will follow the lecture. For more
information, contact Rachel E. Heimann at 410-516-0333 or
reh@jhu.edu.
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