Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:30:09 -0700WeeblyMon, 03 Mar 2025 18:00:24 GMThttp://samgroupil.org/general-meeting/march-03rd-2025When:  Monday, March 17
Time: 1:30pm
Where: Beth Emet Synagogue 1224 Dempster St, in Evanston​

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Speaker: Peter Slevin 

Topic: The role of the media – never more important or more fraught - during Trump 2.0
 
Bio: Peter Slevin is  a professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
He has spent much of his career writing for newspapers, spending seven years in Europe for The Miami Herald and a decade on the national staff of The Washington Post, where he wrote about foreign policy and later traveled the country with an eye to politics. His portrait of Michelle Obama—Michelle Obama: A Life—was a finalist for the PEN America biography prize and rated as one of Booklist’s top ten biographies of the year.
]]>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:30:48 GMThttp://samgroupil.org/general-meeting/february-24-human-rights-and-peace-a-personal-odysseyWhen:  February 24
Time: 1:30pm
Where: Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St, in Evanston

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Speaker: Zafra Lerman

Topic: Human rights and Peace; A Personal Odyssey
BIO:
Zafra Lerman is a scientist, educator and humanitarian. She received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and conducted research at Cornell and Northwestern Universities and the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. She developed an innovative approach of teaching science through art, music, drama, dance, and rap which was successful with underprivileged students around the globe. She worked on human rights cases in the former Soviet Union, Russia, China, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, and South Africa and was successful in preventing executions, releasing prisoners from jail and bringing dissidents to freedom. She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation which uses science diplomacy as a bridge to peace in the Middle East. She received awards, including Presidential Award for Mentoring from President Clinton (1999), Award for Science Diplomacy (2015), American Physical Society Andrei Sakharov Prize for Human Rights (2016), Peace and Justice prize from the UN NOVUS summit (2016), Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2017), and she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the US Congress and a member of the French Parliament (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025). On March 6, 2025 she will receive in New York the International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 06:29:04 GMThttp://samgroupil.org/general-meeting/january-10-inside-the-us-secret-service-the-views-of-a-former-agentWhen: January 20th
Time: 1:30pm
Where: Zoom Only​

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Topic: “Inside the US Secret Service: The Views of a Former Agent”

Speaker: J. Branch Walton 

Mr. Walton has more than 50 years of direct experience in federal law enforcement, private security and teaching/training/program development. He was a commissioned officer in the U S Marine Corps and a special agent with NCIS before retiring from the United States Secret Service (USSS) after a 21-year career. Among other assignments he served on President Nixon, former President Carter and President Reagan security details.

He retired as the Special Agent in Charge of a field office. After retirement, he became the director of security for Cummins Engine Company and later served as Chief of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's (FLETC) Management Institute, and on the criminal justice faculty at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana.

He is past President of the National Association for Bank Security-Profit Protection, LLC, a company specializing in security and compliance training for the banking industry.

He is now a contract instructor for (1) the Department of Homeland Security in the fields of physical and operations security. He has been interviewed by numerous local and national news agencies on security topics of current interest and is the author of two books and numerous magazine articles.

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