1+ week, 5+ day ago   (81+ words) San Diego Jewish World Alan Dershowitz (September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago   (84+ words) San Diego Jewish World He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a professor from 1949 onward He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (92+ words) San Diego Jewish World Shaul Tchernichovsky (August 20, 1875 – October 14, 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece. Tchernichovsky was born…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (146+ words) Zalman Schachter (August 17, 1924 – July 3, 2014) was an American rabbi, writer, and activist, and one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue. [Wikipedia] Born in Poland, Schachter-Shalomi was raised an Orthodox Jew in a variety…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (91+ words) Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale. [Wikipedia] Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing…...