On Wednesday January 24, 2024 at 9pm ET, the FJMC Webinar & Affinity Group Committee will present a special Webinar hosted by Joe Weber, Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to discuss the campus ferment that followed the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Weber, a longtime journalist, has studied such terrorist organizations as ISIS.
Joseph Weber, the Jerry and Karla Huse Professor of News-Editorial and professor of journalism, worked in magazines and newspapers for 35 years. He spent most of that time, 22 years, reporting and writing for BusinessWeek, starting as a correspondent in Dallas and then running the magazine’s bureaus in Philadelphia, Toronto and Chicago. He took on the role of chief of correspondents for the organization in early 2006, serving until the summer of 2009. Before BW, Weber reported and wrote for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Dun’s Business Month in New York City and The Home News in New Brunswick, N.J. He has a B.A. from Rutgers College and an M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has taught business and economic reporting, multimedia journalism, magazine writing, editorial writing, basic and advanced reporting, and media management. Weber has taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing and at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He holds an Excellence in Financial Journalism Award from the New York State Society of CPAs as well as two Peter Lisagor Awards from the Headline Club of Chicago, a Distinguished Editorial Achievement Award from McGraw-Hill, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Journalism Award and the Morton Margolin Prize from the University of Denver. He is also a 16-time marathoner. His first book, Transcendental Meditation in America: How a New Age Movement Remade a Small Town In Iowa, was published by the University of Iowa Press. His second, Divided Loyalties: Young Somali Americans and the Lure of Extremism, was published by the Michigan State University Press. And his third book, Rhymes with Fighter: Clayton Yeutter, American Statesman, was published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Please tune in on Wednesday January 24, 2024 at 9pm ET for this important webinar; register at: https://fjmc.org/events-2/fjmc-webinar-campuses-in-turmoil/. This timely webinar is part of a growing portfolio of FJMC Webinars and Affinity Groups, offered at no charge to all Jewish Men’s Clubs and Brotherhoods across the United States and around the world. Learn more about the growing portfolio of FJMC Affinity Groups and Webinars at https://fjmc.org/affinity-groups-and-webinars. For a list of previous programs visit FJMC’s YouTube page.
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