OFJCC Annual Meeting and Celebration

The Oshman Family JCC Community is cordially invited to our Annual Meeting and Celebration on June 4, 2024!

When? June 4, 2024 at 6:30-8:00 pm

Where? Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall (Bldg F) @ OFJCC

Join us for an evening of reflection and celebration as we:

• Recognize our outgoing Board Members, welcome our new Board Members, and celebrate outgoing Board Chair Tali Ronen
• Honor Linda Kurz for her extraordinary contributions with the President's Award
• Learn about the current situation in Israel from our featured speaker, Amichai Magen
• Welcome our new Board Chair, Adam Tachner

Drinks, appetizers, and desserts will be served.

Join us in honoring our esteemed board member, Linda Kurz, Ph.D., with the prestigious President's Award. Linda's extraordinary dedication, vision and unwavering commitment have been instrumental in fostering positive change throughout our community and in driving the success of the Oshman Family JCC. Her Board leadership has spanned an exceptional portfolio of strategically critical roles, from governance and measurement of organizational impact to building the leadership pipeline and providing support and guidance for the OFJCC’s Jewish experiences, Israeli programs and Z3 Project. A founder of New Bridges to Jewish Community and project manager of the Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, Linda is an enormously devoted builder of Jewish communal organizations beyond the JCC, having lent her skills as both a professional and a lay leader to numerous Jewish organizations across the community, including Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, Hillel at Stanford, the Meira Academy, the Israel Education Initiative, the Koret Institute and the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund.

Amichai Magen is the Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. In Israel, he is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor), Head of the MA Program in Diplomacy & Conflict Studies, and Director of the Program on Democratic Resilience and Development (PDRD) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University. His research and teaching interests address democracy, the rule of law, liberal orders, risk and political violence.

Magen received the Yitzhak Rabin Fulbright Award (2003), served as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2016 he was named Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy, an award that recognizes outstanding thought-leaders around the world. Between 2018 and 2022 he was Principal Investigator in two European Union Horizon 2020 research consortia, EU-LISTCO and RECONNECT. Amichai Magen served on the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and is a Board Member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) and the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal (ICDR).