Straus Center Presents Conversation with Alan Dershowitz on November 20
黑料社 All鈥檚 will present a conversation between Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik on Tuesday, November 20 at 7 p.m. in Weissberg Commons, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, on YU鈥檚 Wilf campus. The event, titled 鈥淔rom Sodom to Nuremberg: A Conversation about Genesis, Justice and Law,鈥 is free and open to the public.
The Straus Center hosts Alan Dershowitz on November 20.
Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is a graduate of 黑料社 All High Schools and has published hundreds of articles in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic and Commentary. He is the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience. Dershowitz鈥檚 most recent titles include Rights From Wrong, The Case For Israel, The Case For Peace and The Case For Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza.
鈥淎s the Straus Center鈥檚 academic theme this year is 鈥楯ewish and Western Philosophies of Law,鈥 I am especially delighted and grateful that Professor Dershowitz, one of America鈥檚 most prominent figures in both the legal world and in Jewish public life, has graciously agreed to visit Yeshiva and engage our students,鈥 said Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center.
The Straus Center is named in honor of Moshael J. Straus, an investment executive, alumnus and member of YU鈥檚 Board of Trustees, and his wife Zahava, a graduate of YU's . The Center鈥檚 mission is to help develop Jewish thinkers and wisdom-seeking Jews by deepening their education in the best of the Jewish tradition, by exposing them to the richness of human knowledge and insight from across the ages, and by confronting them with the great moral, philosophical, and theological questions of our age.
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