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 Tuesday, January 26
Jews in the U.S. Military: It's Not Your Grandfather’s
Armed Forces
Rabbi Harold Robinson
Rear Admiral CHC USN Ret
Director, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council
A Chaplain in the Naval Reserve since 1975, Admiral Robinson served 24 years with Marine Corps Units and 9 years with naval units and instructed at the Naval Chaplains School. Selected Rear Admiral in 2003, he served as Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters and Director of Religious Programs, Marine Force Reserve until his retirement in October 2007. He was Vice President and President of the Naval Reserve Policy Board (2004-2006). He has served at locations around the world including five visits to the Middle East while Deputy Chief of Chaplains. Sites visited included Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Kuwait, and Qatar. Admiral Robinson is a Fleet Marine Force Qualified officer. Rabbi Robinson assumed the directorship of JWB Jewish Chaplains Council in 2007.
 Thursday, February 11
Does Age Count? The Truth About Aging in the 21st Century
Lillian Rubin, Ph.D.
Author
Lillian B. Rubin is an internationally recognized author, lecturer, and social scientist who was born in Philadelphia, grew up in New York City, and moved to California as a young adult. She lives in San Francisco, where she was, until recently, a practicing psychotherapist and a member of the faculty at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. As did many women of her generation, Dr. Rubin devoted her early adult years to family-building. In 1963, at the age of 39, she entered the University of California at Berkeley as a freshman, and emerged eight years later with a Ph.D. in Sociology and post-doctoral training in Clinical Psychology. Her interdisciplinary training and experience give her a unique place among social scientists, since she is able to understand and explain human experience from both the sociological and psychological perspective.
Since receiving her doctorate, she has published many articles and twelve books, all of them very well received and widely read and translated. Her most recent work, 60 ON UP: The Truth About Aging in America (2007), is an unflinching look at the complex sociological, cultural, and psychological issues of aging in our time.
 Tuesday, March 23
Covering Israel: A Jewish Journalist’s Perspective
Linda Gradstein
Israel Correspondent, NPR
Linda Gradstein was the NPR correspondent in Jerusalem for more than 20 years. She has won several awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for her coverage of the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and was part of a team that won the Afred I DuPont award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda has a BS in Foreign Service and an MA in Arab Studies at Georgetown University. She also spent a year as a Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University in 1999. Linda speaks both Hebrew and Arabic fluently. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband and four children.
Tuesday, April 27
Tel Aviv: 100 Years of Culinary History
Janna Gur
Author and Israeli Food Personality
Tel Aviv, that capital of Mediterranean cool, boasts a culinary scene to rival leading European cities. Join Israeli food expert and cookbook author Janna Gur as she traces the formation of the city's food culture from old Jaffa to the vibrant and cosmopolitan restaurant scene of today. Janna Gur is a well-known food personality who has been on the cutting edge of food trends in Israel for over 15 years. The founder and chief editor of Al Hashulchan Gastronomic Monthly ("On the Table"), the Gourmet Magazine of Israel, she is the author of The Book of New Israeli Food: A Culinary Journey (Schocken; 2008). A former food segment host on an Israeli television morning show, Gur is a regular guest on Israeli TV and radio. She lives with her family in Tel Aviv.
 Wednesday, May 26
Jazzed Up! The Changing Face of Jazz
Pete Yellin
World Renowned Jazz Saxophonist and Educator
Alto saxophonist and educator Pete Yellin is a native New Yorker who has toured and recorded with many of the seminal names in jazz, among them Joe Henderson, Tito Puente, Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Eddie Palmieri, Machito, Mario Bausa, and Maynard Ferguson. Pete also leads his own groups, releasing three CDs in the last three years with another in the can with special guest Chick Corea. In 1984, Pete Yellin founded the jazz program at Long Island University -- New York's first serious full-time degree program in jazz -- and continues to be involved in its leadership as Coordinator of Jazz Studies. Pete continues to be found in a variety of musical situations, appearing as a sideman or leader in most of New York's "major and minor" jazz venues and recording as a featured soloist with such groups as the Bob Mintzer big band and Tito Puente's band, giving clinics and concerts around the world.
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