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On Monday, April 14, 2008, the Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture was presented by Arnold Eisen, Chancellor and President of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, at 6:00 PM in Martin Lipton Hall located in D'Agostino Hall. The lecture was entitled "Conservative Judaism and the Re-imagining of Jewish Law." Chancellor Eisen was introduced by Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor of Law, NYU School of Law. Following the lecture there was a short cocktail reception.
Event Pictures
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| Arnold Eisen and Professor Joseph Weiler | Arnold Eisen, Abe Fried-Tanzer, and Yossi Hoffman |
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| Job Jindo and Dr. Adriane Leveen | Eric Cohen, Arnold Eisen, and Professor Joseph Weiler |
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| Audience members | Arnold Eisen |
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| Professor Moshe Halbertal and Arnold Eisen | Chancellor Arnold Eisen and guests |
Biographical Information
Arnold M. Eisen is the seventh chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. One of the world's foremost experts on American Judaism,Chancellor Eisen has worked closelyfor the past twenty years with synagogue and federation leadership around the country to analyze and address the issues of Jewish identity, the revitalization of Jewish tradition, and the redefinition of the American Jewish community.
A product of the Conservative Movement,Chancellor Eisen has regularly served as a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Program, the Wexner Fellowship, and the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He has served, and is now serving again, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency and has long been known as a passionate advocate of strengthening the connection between American Jews and Israel.
Chancellor Eisen's publications include a personal essay, Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (1997); a historical work entitled Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (1998); and The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America (2000), coauthored with sociologist Steven M. Cohen. He is currently at work on a book that probes new possibilities for the meaning of Zionism.
Chancellor Eisen received a PhD in the History of Jewish Thought from Hebrew University; a BPhil in the Sociology of Religion at Oxford University; and a BA in Religious Thought from the University of Pennsylvania. Before assuming his role as chancellor, he was the Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University. He previously served as senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.
Chancellor Eisen is married to Dr. Adriane Leveen, a scholar of Hebrew Bible, and has two children, Shulie and Nathaniel.