Israeli ambassador Michael Oren addresses synagogue in Park Slope
A lively discussion on United-States-Israel relations is expected next Monday when Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren speaks at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope.
Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author, whom Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Ne- tanyahu appointed as ambassador to the United States in May 2009. Oren’s books, articles and essays have focused on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the New York Times best-seller, Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
This book also won the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Oren is a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown Universities in the United States and at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities in Israel. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to The New Republic. The Forward named Oren one of the five most influential American Jews; and The Jerusalem Post listed him as one of the world’s ten most influential Jews.