Spring 2010 Seudah Shlishit Speaker Series

Shabbat, April 10
Karen Friedman Sutton is an Assistant Professor of History at Touro College. She received a Fulbright Award in 1987 for research in German/Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution 1941-1944. Professor Sutton received a PhD in 1995 from the University of Illinois and subsequently became Director of the Anti-Defamation League's Braun Holocaust Institute. In 1995, she researched Lithuanian archives in Vilnius that had become open in the post-Soviet era.

Shabbat, April 24
Daniel Tsadik is an assistant Professor at Yeshiva University. A Fulbright scholar, Daniel Tsadik obtained his PhD in 2002 from the Yale University History Department specializing in the areas of Iranian and Middle Eastern history as well as in history of the Jews under Islam. His research focuses on the modern history of Iran, Shi'ah Islam, and Iran 's religious minorities.

Shabbat, May 1
Rabbi Yonah Reiss, a noted Torah scholar, attorney, and jurist, is the Max and Marion Grill Dean of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Rabbi Reiss served as director of the Beth Din of America from 1998 to 2008.

Shabbat, May 8
Rebecca Kobrin is an assistant professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University.  Professor Kobrin served as the Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University  (2002–2004) and the American Academy  of Jewish Research Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University  (2004–2006). Her area of specialty is Jewish immigration history, which she approaches through a transnational lens.

Shabbat, May 15
Rebecca Feldman is a graduate of Yeshiva University, where she obtained a BA in philosophy and Jewish studies and an MA in Jewish philosophy, as well as a graduate of YU's Graduate Program for Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women. In addition, Rebecca holds a JD from University of Chicago Law School.

Shabbat, June 5
Rabbi Ari Berman is the former rabbi of The Jewish Center.