Michael B. Oren, a professor at Georgetown and distinguished fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, spoke at the JINSA 2008 Fall Board Meeting on December 9, 2008. He discussed the direction the new administration will take once Barack Obama is sworn in as America’s forty-fourth president.

The JINSA 2008 Spring Board Meeting held June 1 in Washington, D.C., featured a panel discussion on the "Lessons Learned from Iraq and Lebanon."

Andrew Whitehead spoke to JINSA leaders at the Spring 2007 Board Meeting about his legal victory over the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after the group filed a lawsuit to shut down his Anti-CAIR website. Whitehead used the website to publish the ugly truth behind CAIR's foreign funding and its leadership's support for terrorists and radical, anti-American causes.