Some of our past speakers:
Dan Alon
Israeli Olympic Fencing Champion, Munich '72
Rcounting the Munich Massacare
11/06
Co-Spnosored by Middle East Center
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Elli Wohlgelernter
Jerusalem Post editor
9/28/1998
&
9/18/2000
1998 Event was Co-Sponsored with Connaissance and the Hillel Israel Committee
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2000 Event was Co-Sponsored with Alpha Epsilon Pi
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Ron Dermer
Penn Alumnus & Israel's Minister for Economic Affairs in the US
April 29, 2008
Co-Spnosored by JHP and the Wharton Jewish Graduate Studnets (JAMBA)
Doron Kornbluth
Author of "Why Marry Jewish?"
"Dating, Love and Religion"
March 23rd, 2007
Co-Spnosored by Connaissance
Molly Resnick
Former NBC producer and Founder of MATCKH, (Mothers Against Teaching Children To Kill and Hate)
Topic
February 10, 2001
Co-Spnosored by Connaissance
Leiba Rudolph
"The Jewish Woman: Second Class or Running the Ship"
November 2, 2002
Co-sponsored with Jewish Heritage Program & Connaissance
Sarah Esther Crispe
editor of TheJewishWoman.org
Topic
Date
Co-Spnosored by Connaissance
Elie Weisel
Acclaimed Author & Activist
Date
Laibl Wolf
Australian lawyer/spiritualist Rabbi
“Practical Kabbalah: A Guide to Jewish Wisdom for Everyday Life.”
02/08/04
Co-Spnosored by Connaissance of the Social Planning and Events Committee and the Penn Bookstore.
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Dan Ben Amos
Penn Prof. of Folklore
The Shopler Zaidy
Date
Co-Spnosored by...
Laurence Schiffman
Prof. & Chairman, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU
"Judasim, Islam and Israel's crises with Terror"
&
"re-reading Bereshit: Jewish
Co-Spnosored by Connaissance
Conference on Viktor Frankl
Shimon Cowen
Rabbi & Prof. at Monash
Dr. William S. Breitbart
Chief psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
10/05
Co-Spnosored by the Lubavitch Healthy-Living Advisory Board, Religous Studies Dept., Psycholgoy Dept., Office of Health Education, Chaplain's office. Office of the Vice Provost and the .
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Daniel Pipes
2001
Spnosored by Jewish Heritage Programs
Geroge Rohr
Founder of New Century Holdings
1/23/2002
Co-Spnosored by Jewish Heritage Programs, Wharton Vantage Traders, Wharton Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Group and the University's Slavic Languages Department.
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Mottel Livshitz
Chasid, Soviet Gulag Survivor and Activist (aka: Mottel der Shochet)
Novermber, 2005
Co-Spnosored by the Kelly Writers House and Penn's History Dept
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Harry Reicher
Penn Law Professor & International law expert
"The Status of Jerusalem in International Law"
November 11, 2000, 6:00pm
Co-Sponsored with Connaissance
Jacob Immanuel Schochat
Rabbi, Author & Professor of Philosophy
College, Career, Spirituality & Ethics: Are They In Sync?
1/25/0?
Co-Spnosored by the OCP Scholar In Residence committee.
Dr. Ed Susskind
March 30, 2001
Co-Sponsored with Connaissance
David Eckmann, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
End of Life
Co-Spnosored by Penn's Maimonides Medical Society
Arnie Gotfryd, PhD
Environmental scientist
"Science and Faith: are they Friends or Foes"
and
"Creationism, Darwinism and Religion"
Nov 2-3, 2007
Co-Sponsored with Connaissance
David Krasnjanski
Rabbi & US Navy Aircraft Engineer
September 28, 200?