Keynote Speaker for 2008 Convention announced

Dr. Ellen Frankel, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Jewish Publication Society (http://www.jewishpub.org/), will be the keynote speaker at the 2008 convention. Her appearance at an AJL convention will coincide with JPS's 120th anniversary. The topic of Dr. Frankel's talk will be announced later. Anyone interested in the history and development of the Jewish Publication Society is urged to read Jonathan Sarna's JPS: THE AMERICANIZATION OF JEWISH CULTURE, 1888-1988.