Featuring HaRav Yonason Sacks, Shlita and HaRav Shmuel Marcus, Shlita

Please join President Kadish in a candid conversation with Ambassador Houda Nonoo on being Jewish in Bahrain and the new Middle East.

Recent years have seen a growing awareness of autism, producing a neurodiversity movement that accepts autism and other differences as part of the natural variation in the human genome. The panel of leading scholars and advocates will draw upon their personal and professional experiences in autism awareness, acceptance and inclusion, and will explore efforts to promote neurodiversity.

Join us for a conversation between Touro president Dr. Alan Kadish and author Bernard-Henri Lévy.  

Part II of a two-part series: Free Speech on Mainstream Media and Social Media, Free Speech and Public Assemblies, including the Alt-Right, Black Lives Matter and "Taking A Knee"

Part I of a two-part series: Free Speech Under the Law, Free Speech in the Public Square, Free Speech on Campus

Join Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish for a dialogue with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy, award-winning authors of Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People.  Learn about Sharansky’s extraordinary journey from the Soviet gulag to the Israeli political scene and be inspired by his courage, moral clarity and passion for unifying the Jewish people.

Third in a three-part series in preparation for the Days of Awe - Yamim Noraim

Second in a three-part series in preparation for the Days of Awe - Yamim Noraim

First in a three-part series in preparation for the Days of Awe - Yamim Noraim

Recent events have highlighted medical issues relating to precedence of life. This presentation will examine Jewish ethical perspectives on a specific issue: Is it permissible to sacrifice a few innocent lives in order to save many? And if so, under what circumstances? By reviewing a famous case of lifeboat ethics – one that was adjudicated in an American court of law - we will examine some of the parallels and differences between American law and Jewish ethical teaching.

The coronavirus crisis has upended the delivery of education across the board. This discussion will address the implications of the current pandemic for the present and future of Jewish schools and Jewish special education. Academic and social impacts, as well as broader communal considerations, will be covered.

COVID-19 has presented numerous ethical challenges and questions. This discussion will address issues surrounding prioritizing and allocating scarce healthcare resources, engaging in biomedical research, and social consequences for today’s public policy decisions. The presentation will consider these issues from both secular ethical and Jewish law and values standpoints.

In conjunction with The Jewish Law Institute of the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.