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Dinner Chairpersons<br />
Ron & Annette Plotkin<br />
Dinner Co-Chairs<br />
Dr. Robert & Leslie Hamilton s Steve & Rita Emerson s Jay & Dulce Hoffman<br />
Honorary Dinner Committee<br />
Elie and Sima Alyeshmerni<br />
Dr. Benjamin and Dr. Miriam Landau<br />
Kam and Lilly Babaoff<br />
Sam and Cathy Lebovitz<br />
Newton Becker<br />
Fred and Dina Leeds<br />
Rabbi Moises and Yaffa Benzaquen Ed and Marie Lewis<br />
Arun and Marina Bhumitra<br />
Dr. Dan and Edith Lieber<br />
Dr. Roy and Laurie Blumenstrauch Barak and Stacy Lurie<br />
Charles and Kharlene Boxenbaum Adam and Gila Milstein<br />
Eliot and Robin Broidy<br />
Heidi A. Nietert<br />
Dean Cain<br />
Ron and Annette Plotkin<br />
Aubrey and Joyce Chernick<br />
Roger Richman<br />
Abba and Pamela Claman<br />
Naty and Debbie Saidoff<br />
Joe and Lea Purwin d’Agostino<br />
Sunny and Debbie Sassoon<br />
Robert and Miri Esensten<br />
Dr. Arnold and Dr. Roberta Seid<br />
Sam and Ardyth Freshman<br />
Joe and Nickie Shapira<br />
Jerry and Jean Friedman<br />
Gary Sinese<br />
Josh and Beth Friedman<br />
Shawn and Michelle Steele<br />
Georgette Gelbard<br />
Alan and Lisa Stern<br />
Gary and Roseanna Grabel<br />
Dr. Jerome and Mary Joelle Unatin<br />
Al and Robin Han<br />
Jon Voigt<br />
Larry J. Hochberg<br />
Jeff Weiner and Cathy Ferraro<br />
Stan and Margot Itzkowitch<br />
Michael and Adrienne Wienir<br />
Rabbi Isaac and Arianna Jeret<br />
Paul Wright<br />
Mitch and Jolene Julis<br />
Kirin Zaidi<br />
Dr. David Katzin<br />
Richard and Dafna Ziman<br />
Dinner Committee<br />
Jennifer Kutner, Allyson Taylor, Libby Lieber, Cathy Lebovitz,<br />
Leslie Hamilton, Adrienne Wienir<br />
<strong>American</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> <strong>Alliance</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> <strong>Alliance</strong> unites individuals and<br />
communities throughout the United States who<br />
share an abiding reverence for the values that make<br />
the United States of America a symbol of freedom of<br />
thought, speech and self-expression. The <strong>Alliance</strong>’s<br />
programs, publications, conferences and websites<br />
develop tools and strategies to counter the growing<br />
influence of ideologies and movements that deny the<br />
sanctity of the personal conscience.<br />
The Heroes of Conscience<br />
At our second annual dinner, we pay tribute again<br />
to heroes of conscience - men and women who<br />
stand at the forefront of the battle to preserve our freedom.<br />
We are grateful for their courage and tenacity in<br />
confronting those who would imprison our thoughts,<br />
stifle our imagination and rob us of our liberty. In<br />
defense of our freedoms they have dared to venture<br />
beyond the comforts of family, career and personal<br />
commitments, taking great risks on a daily basis in<br />
order to elevate the truth.<br />
<strong>American</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> <strong>Alliance</strong><br />
11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90064<br />
Phone: 310-444-3085 Fax: 310-444-3086<br />
isdev@ix.netcom.com www.americanfreedomalliance.org<br />
Sunday, May 18, 2008<br />
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum<br />
Simi Valley<br />
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed;<br />
it must be achieved.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Heroes of Conscience Dinner<br />
Ronald Reagan Presidential<br />
Library & Museum<br />
40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, California<br />
In Tribute<br />
Philippe Karsenty<br />
Stephen Coughlin<br />
Honoring<br />
Howard and Sonya Waldow<br />
Ed Ames<br />
and<br />
Remembering<br />
Tashbih Sayyed<br />
Master of Ceremonies<br />
Hugh Hewitt<br />
Sunday, May 18, 2008<br />
4:30 pm: Presidential Museum Tour<br />
5:45 pm: Cocktail Reception<br />
7:00 pm: Dinner<br />
Couvert: $300 per person<br />
Dress: Business attire<br />
Kosher and vegetarian meals available upon request.<br />
In Tribute<br />
Philippe Karsenty is a French journalist and media critic. After a<br />
brief foray into French politics in 2002, he founded Media-Ratings,<br />
the first ever French agency to rate the media. Media-Ratings focuses<br />
on fraud, inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the French media. Mr.<br />
Karsenty has been fighting to expose the greatest media hoax of this<br />
century - the so- called “Mohammed al-dura murder” in which a<br />
twelve-year-old boy was supposedly targeted and killed by Israeli troops<br />
during a resurgence of the Arab/Muslim violence in September, 2000. The staged incident,<br />
broadcast first on French public television, intensified Arab/Muslim hatred against the<br />
West and has been employed as a pretext for violence and mayhem around the world.<br />
Karsenty was recently elected Deputy Mayor of Neuilly, one of the most influential political<br />
districts in France.<br />
Stephen Coughlin is an attorney with a background in international<br />
law and international business. He is also a former consultant to the<br />
Intelligence Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In January, 2008,<br />
Mr. Coughlin, who has an expertise in the sources of Islamic terror and<br />
uses of Islamic law, was not renewed to his position at the Department of<br />
Defense. While no one in his chain of command disputed the veracity,<br />
accuracy or balance of his lectures and briefings, it is widely believed<br />
that Mr. Coughlin was compelled to leave his position because his <strong>view</strong>s were considered<br />
politica lly unacceptable. Mr. Coughlin currently serves as a United States Army Reserve<br />
Major specializing in military intelligence.<br />
Honorees<br />
Howard Waldow was born in Los Angeles, attended high<br />
school in Beverly Hills and received a BA in psychology<br />
in 1970 from CSUN. In 1972 he started Michael Howard<br />
Furniture with only $1000 - an enterprise that eventually<br />
grew into one of California’s largest residential furniture<br />
companies. At the end of 1999, Howard retired and became<br />
an investor, primarily in real estate. Sonya Tuchman-Waldow was born in Munich,<br />
Germany to Polish Holocaust survivors. A teenage modeling contest led to a successful<br />
modeling and acting career in Europe which brought her to the United States in the late<br />
80s. Sonya holds a Masters Degree in Psychology, speaks four languages fluently and<br />
currently works as a journalist and TV producer for German television. Howard and<br />
Sonya are the proud parents of 16-year old Daniel and 4-month old Ariana.<br />
Ed Ames is a singer, actor and community activist who has<br />
appeared in Broadway plays, major motion pictures and has<br />
been a recording star in his own right. His greatest success as a<br />
stage actor came when he played Chief Bromden in the Broadway<br />
production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest opposite Kirk<br />
Douglas. Talent scouts at 20th Century Fox saw Ed in the<br />
production and invited him to play the Native <strong>American</strong> Mingo<br />
on the television show Daniel Boone, a role he played from 1964-70. Ed has made<br />
many recordings as a solo artist. He released his first single called “Try to<br />
Remember” in 1965 and had even a bigger success in 1967 with “My Cup Runneth<br />
Over”. Succeeding hits were “When the Snow Is On the Roses”, “Time Time” and<br />
“Timeless Love”. Ed has been involved in innumerable Jewish and environmental<br />
charities over the past 40 years and is currently the president of the Los Angeles<br />
branch of the Zionist Organization of America.<br />
Remembering<br />
Born in Pakistan, but a proud <strong>American</strong>, Tashbih Sayyed<br />
(1942-2007) was a historian, television producer and editor.<br />
He placed himself on the frontline in the struggle with radical<br />
Islam. He earned the enmity of Muslim extremists for his<br />
friendship towards Israel, his sympathy and admiration for<br />
Western civilized values and for his fearless critiques of his own<br />
culture and religion. Tashbih Sayyed passed away in May, 2007.<br />
We cherish his memory and pay tribute to his legacy.<br />
Master of Ceremonies<br />
P rofessor<br />
Hugh Hewitt is a law professor and broadcast<br />
journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard<br />
in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday<br />
afternoon. Professor Hewitt is a graduate of Harvard College<br />
and the University of Michigan La School, and has been teaching<br />
Constitutional Law at Chapman University Law School since it<br />
opened in 1995. Professor Hewitt is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network,<br />
and MSNBC, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,<br />
and the Los Angeles Times. He has received three Emmys for his work as co-host<br />
of the ground-breaking Life & Times program, a nightly news and public affairs<br />
program that aired on the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET, from 1992 until 2007.<br />
The Heroes of Conscience