Touro Talks

Recorded live on October 18, 2021. Guest host, Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff, president of Gratz College, in conversation with Touro professor and dean, Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol, on Dr. Sokol’s book The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave. 

Recorded live on December 14, 2021. The name Touro adorns two synagogues, a hospital, and several streets, including one in Jerusalem and, of course, our school. Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish and Dr. Jonathan Sarna, University Professor and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, discuss Judah Touro. 

Recorded live on January 12, 2022. In honor of Touro’s 50th anniversary, a conversation with the illustrious Touro grad the New York Times called a Hasidic Superwoman, Judge Ruchie (Rachel) Freier.

Recorded live on February 23, 2022. A conversation with history professor and author Dr. Andrew Porwancher, on his book The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton. 

Recorded live on March 9, 2022. A conversation between guest host Sam Levine, Professor of Law and Director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center and lawyers Yehudah L. Buchweitz and Robert G. Sugarman on their work in the high-profile litigation brought against municipalities in New Jersey and New York regarding the establishment of eruvim and the construction of houses of worship.

Recorded live on April 6, 2022. “You were strangers in the land of Egypt.” In a special pre-Passover episode, Dr. Henry Abramson, guest host, Touro dean and professor, reflects on refugees in Jewish History. With an emphasis on the crisis in Ukraine, he looks at the experience of displacement from the descriptions in the book of Exodus, through the centuries, until today. 

Recorded live on May 18, 2022. In conversation with leaders in the autism inclusion space, autistic individuals Tim Goldstein, Global Cloud Trainer, Google andElisabeth Wiklander, Cellist, London Philharmonic Orchestraand diversity advocates Hardeep Rai, Group CEO & Founder, Kaleidoscope Group/Kaleidoscope Investments a company that exclusively invests in disabled people with great business ideas, and Dr. Michael Stein, Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, a leading experts on disability law and policy.

Recorded live and in person on November 15, 2022. A presentation from the Winters Center for Autism on autism in the workplace.

Recorded live on November 15, 2022. A conversation exploring the autism employment program at Mobileye, an international leader in autonomous driving technologies, with Lihi Lapid, president of SHEKEL – Inclusion for People with Disabilities and those involved with SHEKEL member placement at Mobileye, Mollie Goldstein, Eli Schreiber, and Roni Vistuch.

Recorded live on December 15, 2022. A conversation on autism on religious spaces and activities with guest host Sam Levine, Professor of Law and Director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center, and Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, Chief Program Officer & Director, Whole Community Inclusion, Jewish Learning Venture; John Elder Robison, Neurodiversity Scholar, College of William & Mary; New York Times Best-Selling Author of Look Me in the Eye; and Rabbi Dr. Rafi Feuerstein, President of the Feuerstein Institute.