Bay St. Schmooze Speaker Series

Bay St. Schmooze Speaker Series

Date

Monday,
October 20, 2025
12:00-1:00PM

LOCATION

Downtown Toronto, Bay and Adelaide area (exact location to be shared with registrants)

Cost

Ticket Price: $36

Join us on Monday, October 20 for the first event in our Bay St. Schmooze speaker series. These sessions offer a chance to network with financial industry colleagues and to hear from interesting and relevant speakers.  

With combatting antisemitism and securing our place in Canadian society being one of UJA’s most urgent priorities, our first event is an opportunity to hear from Gil Troy—author, professor, historian, and one of today’s most prominent activists in the fight against the delegitimization of Israel—about affirming and defending Zionism. 

 

 

Monday, October 20, 2025 

12:00 – 1:00 PM 

 Downtown Toronto, Bay and Adelaide area (exact location to be shared with registrants) 

 Light lunch will be provided | Kashrut observed   

  

If you have any questions, please contact Genny Dozortsev at [email protected]

Bay St. Chairs 
Daniel Glazerman, Evita Tsimerman and Emily Ben-Haim 

 

2025 Community Campaign Chairs 
Adina Bloom Somer and David Goodman  

 

2025 Annual Campaign Chairs 
Ron Baruch and Karen Diamond 

SPEAKER

Gil Troy

Professor Gil Troy is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) and a Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University, currently living in Jerusalem. An award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist thinker, Troy is the author of eight books on the American presidency, and seven books on Zionism, including the best-selling, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland – Then, Now, Tomorrow; the three-volume set of Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Writings; and Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People, co-authored with Natan Sharansky. President Isaac Herzog, in his foreword to the recently published Hebrew edition of Never Alone, praised Troy as “a revered scholar, author and history professor.” Troy's book, To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream, was published in fall 2024.