Engaging Israel: A Community Conversation
with Shalom Hartman Institute iEngage Fellow
Dr. Suzanne Last Stone
Director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization
at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Sunday, November 17
at one of two locations
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Temple Adat Ariel
12020 Burbank Blvd.
Valley Village, CA 016-7
or
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Temple Isaiah
10345 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
Adat Ari El • Congregation Kol Ami • Leo Baeck Temple • Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue • Mishkon Tephilo Congregation • Stephen S. Wise Temple • Southern California Board of Rabbis • Temple Ahavat Shalom • Temple Beth El, Riverside • Temple Beth El, San Diego • Temple Beth El, San Pedro • Temple Beth Hillel • Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills • Temple Isaiah • Tifereth Israel • UCLA Hillel • University Synagogue • Valley Beth Shalom • Wilshire Boulevard Temple
ABOUT SUZANNE LAST STONE
Professor Suzanne Last Stone, a research fellow of the Hartman Institute’s iEngage Project, is University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
She has held the Gruss Visiting Chair in Talmudic Civil Law at both the Harvard and University of Pennsylvania Law Schools, and also has visited at Princeton, Columbia Law, Hebrew University Law, and Tel Aviv Law. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University Law School and was a Danforth Fellow in 1974 in Jewish History and Classical Religions at Yale University.
Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Stone clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then practiced litigation at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Professor Stone is the co-editor-in-chief of Diné Israel, a peer review journal of Jewish law, co-edited with Tel Aviv Law School. Professor Stone writes and lectures on the intersection of Jewish thought, legal theory, and the humanities. Her work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Hebrew, and Arabic.
ABOUT IENGAGE
The goal of the iEngage Project is to respond to growing feelings of disenchantment and disinterest toward Israel among an ever-increasing number of Jews worldwide by creating a new narrative regarding the significance of Israel for Jewish life. Learn more about iEngage.