NAME: _______________ Sessions for 11th Grade Inter-Disciplinary Program: January 6, 2013 (X-Day)

Understanding the relationship between United States Law and Judaism: Comparisons and Conflicts
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Speaker IlanaLevin

SessionTitle
Minor,Mother,and Murderer:CanAnyoneBe TrustedAsAWitness? RabbiShammai,Justice Scalia,andthepowerof dissent:consideringthe roleofminorityopinion inAmericanandJewish law Therighttorefuse:US LawandHalakhahon endoflifetreatment RansRevolutionary Ruminations:Parallelsto U.S.PoliticalPhilosophy inNissimofGirona "TheCaseoftheSour Pickles:SecularLawat theBethDin". "BreakingtheChain:A RoadmaptoResolving thePlightofAgunot."

Bios
IlanaLevinreceivedherJ.D.cumlaudefromHarvardLawSchoolin2010.Aftergraduating,shepracticedinthe litigationdepartmentofSimpsonThacher&BartlettLLPinNewYorkandthenclerkedfortheHonorableI.Leo Glasser,afederaldistrictcourtjudgeintheEasternDistrictofNewYork.Ms.Levinpreviouslyattended MidreshetLindenbauminIsraelandreceivedherB.A.summacumlaudeinMathematicsfromSternCollegein 2007

Danielle Sassoon

DanielleSassoon(Ramaz'04)attendedYaleLawSchoolafterstudyingAmericanhistoryandliteratureat Harvard.SheclerkedforassociateJusticeAntoninScaliaoftheU.S.SupremeCourtfrom20122013andisnowa litigationassociateatKirkland&EllisLLPinNewYork.

RabbiDavid Shabtai,MD

RabbiDavidShabtaiisamemberoftheWexnerKollelElyonattheRabbiIsaacElchananTheologicalSeminary. HegraduatedfromtheYeshivaofFlatbushin1998andattendedYeshivatHarEtzion(Gush)inIsrael.After graduatingfromColumbiaUniversity,hewentontoreceivehisMDfromNYUSchoolofMedicineandsemikhah fromRIETS.HeisactivelyinterestedintheinterfaceandinteractionofmedicineandHalakhah,withaparticular focusonendoflifeissuesandcurrentlyteachesmedicalhalakhahatRIETS.HerecentlypublishedDefiningthe Moment:UnderstandingBrainDeathinHalakhah(Shoresh:NewYork,2011). RabbiNetanelWiederblankisaMagidShiuratYeshivaUniversitywhereheteachescollegestudentsand semikhahstudentsTanakh,Talmud,Halakha,andJewishPhilosophyatRIETS,IsaacBreuerCollege,andJSS. RabbiWiederblankalsoservesasRoshBeisMedrashoftheYeshivaUniversityBnaiYeshurunBeisMedrashin Teaneck,NewJersey.HeliveswithhiswifeSaraandchildreninWashingtonHeights. RabbiShlomoWeissmannservesasthemenahel(director)oftheBethDinofAmerica(www.bethdin.org),the mostactiverabbincalcourtintheUnitedStates.RabbiWeissmannreceivedrabbinicalordinationfromthe RabbiIsaacElchananTheologicalSeminaryatYeshivaUniversityin2001,whereheiscurrentlyacandidatefor advancedordination(YadinYadin).Hegraduatedin2001fromColumbiaLawSchool,wherehewasaHarlan FiskeStoneScholar.PriortohisassociationwiththeBethDinofAmerica,RabbiWeissmannworkedasan attorneyatseverallawfirms,includingDebevoiseandPlimptonLLP. MeiraZackservesastheAssistantDirectoroftheOrganizationfortheResolutionofAgunot(ORA),an internationalnonprofitorganizationwhichadvocatesagainsttheabuseoftheGet(Jewishdivorce)process. MeirareceivedaB.A.inEconomicsfromYeshivaUniversityandiscurrentlypursuingherMasterofSocialWork atFordhamUniversity.MeirahasbeeninstrumentalinrunningORAsoperationsandinleadingcommunity wideinitiativestopreventGetrefusalthroughstandardizationoftheuseoftheJewishprenuptialagreement.

Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank Rabbi Shlomo Weissmann MeiraZack