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David H.

Webber

Beit Midrash for a New North American Rabbinate, Cohort I

David H. Webber is Professor of Law and Paul M. Siskind Scholar at Boston University School of Law. He is the author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, published by Harvard University Press. The book was covered in the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Bloomberg Radio, C-SPAN’s BookTV, Forbes, Jacobin, The National Review, Dissent and elsewhere, and recently published in Korean. David has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other news outlets. His recent scholarship has been published in the Harvard Business Law Review, the University of Chicago Business Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Business, and the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance. Webber was voted the Mark Pettit Teaching Award by the BU Law Class of 2023 and won the Dean’s award for excellence in teaching the same year. He co-teaches the Pensions and Capital Stewardship course for the Harvard Trade Union program at Harvard Law School, and serves as an advisor to unions and foundations on shareholder activism matters. In Israel, he has taught at the law schools of Tel Aviv University and Reichman University. David has been active in legal and investment anti-BDS efforts. He developed the legal theory and helped coordinate the Jewish community response to reverse the Ben & Jerry’s Israel boycott. He is a graduate of Columbia and NYU Law School, where he was an editor for the law review. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Irit, and their three children.

David H. Webber

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Sep 13, 2024

I feel that my path as a rabbi has not yet been charted...This itself seems true to the calling, to the rabbinate, to our lived life as individuals, as a community, as a people.

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