Introducing our Next Speaker for our New Series: Isaiah Speaks!

 

What is Isaiah Speaks?

Our synagogue’s namesake, the prophet Isaiah was not one to shy away from the most central and difficult questions of the day – and neither do we today. Isaiah Speaks is a new speaker series at Temple Isaiah featuring subject matter experts and opinion makers who will help us navigate today’s most relevant issues, all in the safe setting of our community. Utilizing the lens of our Jewish wisdom and tradition, Isaiah Speaks will lift up Judaism’s moral voice to help us better understand and respond to today’s most controversial concerns. At Isaiah, we do not shy away from difficult questions; instead, we embrace that our community is exactly the place where rigorous, respectful, and thoughtful discussion and debate are celebrated and where we can translate Jewish values into action and repair. Look for Isaiah Speaks programs throughout the year!

Constitutional Issues Arising in the New Administration and Issues of Free Speech and Antisemitism on College Campuses

Monday, February 10, from 7 to 8:30pm in the Sanctuary 

(please note this event starts at 7pm and to arrive from 6:45 to 7pm)

Erwin Chemerinsky will deliver two talks in one. As one of our country's foremost legal scholars, he will speak to the legal issues arising in the new administration as well as offer his thoughts on the current atmosphere on college campuses, including his own personal experience as a target of antisemitism. 


Following Erwin Chemerinsky's talk, Temple Isaiah will provide small group opportunities for further conversation on the ideas presented by our speaker led by trained facilitators. Dessert will be provided during the small group discussion.


Books will be on sale that night that the Dean will sign.


Please try to join us in-person to give Erwin Chemerinsky a warm welcome to Isaiah. If you are unable to join in person, please email reception at reception@temple-isaiah.org, who will add you to a list to receive a link the day of the event. Please email by Friday, February 7, at 5pm to be added to the list.

 

About our Isaiah Speaks Speaker: 

Erwin Chemerinsky currently serves as Dean of Berkeley Law and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. He is the author of nineteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent major books are No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States (2024), Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021). In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2022, he was the President of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2024, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. He received his B.S. at Northwestern University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.  

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