August 18 Jewish New York Jabotinsky Memorial Douglas Feith keynote speaker

1751 Second Ave, New York, NY 10128

Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org

Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director

August, 2010

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

JABOTINSKY MEMORIAL, AUGUST 18, PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE, NYC

 

            AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI and the Nordau Circle, invite the entire community to Park East Synagogue, 163 East 67^th Street, between Lexington and 3^rd Avenues, NYC, on Wednesday evening, August 18, 7:30PM, for a memorial service on the occasion of the 70^th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and to mark the 130 years since his birth.

            Douglas Feith, Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, will be the keynote speaker. He echoes the sentiments of the 'Lone Wolf', Jabotinsky, as evident in his New Republic article of May 16, 1994: "To delegitimize the settlements is to attack Zionism – the framework that produced the State of Israel – at its foundation. This is so because the legal basis for Jewish settlement in the territories is the same as the basis on which the State of Israel was declared in 1948."

            AFSI has dedicated this year of 2010 as the Year of Jabotinsky. An essay contest program is being conducted in Israel, and in the U.S., AFSI has published a pamphlet authored by William Mehlman, AFSI's Jerusalem Chairman. The pamphlet, entitled JABOTINSKY…THE MAN AND THE VISION, has been distributed widely to schools, libraries, synagogues, and to our Christian Zionist friends. Copies of the pamphlet will be available at the memorial service, and a special discount will be offered for Shmuel Katz's definitive two volume biography of Jabotinsky, LONE WOLF.

            Jabotinsky's remarkable career as a Zionist leader, writer, journalist, soldier, and prophet, illustrates the highest ideals in Zionism. Thirty years ago,  Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israel's present Prime Minister, gave a speech at the University of Haifa, on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of Jabotinsky's birth. He stressed Jabotinsky's "firm opposition to the surrender of any right which the Jews possessed as individuals and as a nation…to the symptoms of compromise and appeasement which he saw in the responses of the Zionist leadership." It is hoped that Israel's leaders, and the Jewish people, will gain strength and guidance from the prophetic, practical, and heroic message of Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

            Contact AFSI: 212-828-2424, afsi@rcn.com for additional information.