The Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library will welcome noted Mideast scholar David Makovsky for the library’s annual Lazaroff Lecture, focusing this year on “Israel in a Turbulent Middle East:  A Preliminary Assessment.” The talk takes place at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at the library, located in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. 

Makovsky, a native St. Louisan, is a Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute. He appears frequently in the media to comment on Arab-Israeli affairs. He is the author of “Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East” and “Making Peace with the PLO.”   

The cost is $7 per person; free to Friends of the Library. 

RSVPs required to 314-442-3720 or [email protected].

The talk is funded by the Brodsky Library’s Morris and Ann Lazaroff Endowment.