{"id":16389,"date":"2025-10-27T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16389\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:05:07","slug":"former-ambassador-to-israel-and-egypt-to-speak-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16389\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt to Speak in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Jewish Federation of Reading\/Berks<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish Federation of Reading\/Berks and Albright College present the 45th annual Leo Camp Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m., in Albright College\u2019s South Lounge in the McMillan Student Center, located at the intersection of 13th and Bern streets in Reading. Parking is available in the lot at the corner of 13th and Bern streets. The lecture is free and open to the public, including interested teens, college students, and adults.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s speaker is former U.S. Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer, currently the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel, and from 1997 to 2001, he served as the United States Ambassador to Egypt. Before that, he served as speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Middle East advisor on the policy planning sta\ufb00, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern a\ufb00airs, and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Kurtzer was instrumental in formulating and executing U.S. policy toward the Middle East peace process. He served on Secretary of State James A. Baker\u2019s Middle East peace team that brought about the 1991 Madrid peace conference, and chaired the multilateral peace talks that followed. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Kurtzer to serve on the Secretary\u2019s Foreign A\ufb00airs Policy Board. In 2007, he was named the first commissioner of the professional Israel Baseball League.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtzer is the co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, co-author of The Peace Puzzle: America\u2019s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011, co-author of Peace Derailed: The Decline and Fall of U.S. Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, 2009-2025 (forthcoming); editor of Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and numerous scholarly articles and op-eds on foreign policy issues. Kurtzer received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>His talk entitled \u201cIs the Middle East at an Inflection Point?\u201d will incorporate his extensive knowledge and experience while responding to the rapidly changing political and cultural landscape there.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact the Jewish Federation of Reading\/Berks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bctv.org\/2025\/10\/27\/former-ambassador-to-israel-and-to-egypt-to-speak-in-reading\/mailto:info@jfreading.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">info@jfreading.org<\/a> or 610-921-0624.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Jewish Federation of Reading\/Berks The Jewish Federation of Reading\/Berks and Albright College present the 45th annual Leo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-16389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}