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Touro Talks are timely conversations engaging college students, thought leaders and experts from around the world on academic and contemporary issues. Hosted by Touro University president, Dr. Alan Kadish.
Touro Talks is sponsored by Robert and Arlene Rosenberg. If you would like to sponsor, please email tourotalks@touro.edu
Touro Talks is sponsored by Robert and Arlene Rosenberg. If you would like to sponsor, please email tourotalks@touro.edu
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides joins guest host Professor Ido Aharoni on Touro Talks to discuss the future of U.S.–Israel relations, lessons in authentic leadership and diplomacy, and the path forward after the October 7 Hamas attacks. Drawing on his career in government and business, Nides shares insights on rebuilding bipartisan support for Israel, strengthening understanding among the younger generation, and confronting the global rise in antisemitism. He speaks with moral clarity, empathy, and resilience and underscores the shared democratic values that bind Israel and the United States.
In this powerful Touro Talks episode, Dr. Alan Kadish, President of Touro University, speaks with Dr. Chezi Levy, a senior Israeli medical expert and former Director of Barzilai University Medical Center in Ashkelon and Director General of Israeli Ministry of Health. Dr. Levy shares firsthand insights from treating Israeli hostages released after captivity during the Hamas-Israel war. He has a rare look into the medical, psychological, and emotional recovery process of hostage survivors, young and old. He discusses the sensitive protocols for receiving and caring for returnees, and the immense mental health and nutritional challenges faced by those emerging from prolonged trauma and deprivation. The conversation highlights Israel’s multidisciplinary approach and hope for continued healing.
John Spencer, a renowned military analyst and urban warfare expert, joins Dr. Alan Kadish to discuss the realities of combat in Gaza. From the IDF’s unprecedented civilian harm mitigation measures to the challenges of Hamas’s vast tunnel network, Spencer explains how modern warfare is evolving in real time. He also addresses the media’s role in shaping global perception — and what these lessons mean for the future of conflict.
In this Touro Talks conversation, Irwin Cotler — international human rights advocate and former Canadian Minister of Justice — highlights what today’s struggles demand of us. Drawing lessons from the anti-apartheid fight for Nelson Mandela in South Africa and the movement for Soviet Jewry that became a model of global advocacy, Cotler shows how collective action can dismantle injustice. Cotler discusses the rise of antisemitism, magnified since October 7, as not only a threat to Jews but to democracy itself, and calls out the United Nations for betraying its founding ideals by enabling rather than combating antisemitism.
Dr. Monty Penkower joins Touro Talks to discuss the process of writing an objective daily accounting of the war Israel is fighting since it was attacked on Oct 7, 2023, the war he calls “The War for the Narrative”. How do you ensure accuracy in a chaotic media environment? How do you provide context and an understanding of the radical Islamist ideology driving Hamas and other groups? Penkower shares political and military lessons from the conflict, his concern for the rise of anti-Semitism, and the hope he sees in the resilience of the Israeli people.
Rav Doron Perez, World Mizrachi CEO, joins Touro Talks for a conversation about the importance of Zionism and bringing Torah values to Zionism. He explains how every Jew can impact the development of the land of Israel, and who has a monopoly on truth. Sharing the tragic loss of his son on October 7 as he fought for the land of Israel, Rav Perez stresses the importance of building bridges and standing together.
Political analyst and Egyptian refugee, Dalia Ziada, joins Touro Talks for an incisive analysis of the shifting dynamics in the Middle East, including Israel's emergence as a regional power and Turkey's growing influence, peer pressure on American college campuses, the socialist Islamist alliance, and her journey from burning the Israeli flag on her university campus in Egypt to speaking on American college campuses about the Islamist threats to America.
Faulkner said “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” In this Touro Talks, Dr. Henry Abramson, historian and dean of Lander College for Men, spoke with former refusenik and author Rabbi Dr. Yosef Mendelevich on the occasion of the release of his new volume, The Cantonists, published by Touro University Press. They speak about Mendelevich’s experience in the gulag, integrating into a society, army conscription, and the relevance of his most recent book for the issues we still face today.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish, Congressman Ritchie Torres shared how his upbringing in the South Bronx led to success in his political career. He spoke about his passion for Israel, the rise in antisemitism, why he believes some of his colleagues are misguided when it comes to the Jewish state, and how he’s fighting that on all fronts. Dr. Kadish and Torres also discussed ways to address America’s mental health crisis and what Torres is doing to help impact and improve the lives of New Yorkers.
Poland and Lithuania are home to the Chassidic movement, misnagdim and the controversy between the two, so much of our halachic commentary, and a rich and diverse Jewish cultural life. Walking their streets, we can relive our history and find out place in it. Get a taste of the stories and knowledge Drs. Shnayer Leiman and Henry Abramson have to share and what you’ll experience if you join Touro’s luxury summer tour of Poland & Lithuania with this special episode of Touro Talks.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein and Bishop Glenn R. Plummer join Touro Talks host, Dr. Alan Kadish, for a conversation on antisemitism, support for Israel, and what we can expect under the new U.S. administration.
Recorded live on November 19, 2024. Touro Talks host Dr. Alan Kadish, explores the series of high-profile legal cases filed after the horrific events of October 7th, 2023 against those who provided material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Hamas, with guests Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder and Erielle Davidson.
Touro Talks commemorates October 7th, one year later, with divrei chizzuk, words to guide and strengthen us, from Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and an analysis from former Consul General of Israel and new distinguished Touro faculty member, Ido Aharoni, on the global rise of antisemitism and the challenges now faced by Israel in a post-October 7th world. Touro president, Dr. Alan Kadish, host. Note: Rabbi Lau's message is in Hebrew. Translation is available in the transcript.
Recorded live on September 8, 2024. Since the Hamas massacre and the Gaza war, Jews have been caught in a loop: condemned as victimizers even as they see themselves as the victims. Join Touro Talks host and Touro President, Dr. Alan Kadish, with guest, best-selling author Yossi Klein Halevi, as they talk about what it means to be a people that has regained power, but is still under existential threat. How can Jews navigate power and vulnerability? And what needs to change in the Jewish psyche to help the community better cope with the threats facing the Jewish world today?
(Recorded live on September 20, 2023.)Recorded live on September 20, 2023. A conversation between Rabbi Professor Carmi Horowitz and Rabbi Dr. Michael A. Shmidman on the life and legacy of Rabbi Professor Yitzhak (Isadore) Twersky z”l, a unique individual and unusual scholar. Prof. Twersky was the Talner Rebbe a, professor at Harvard University, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His most recent work is Perpetuating the Masorah: Halakhic, Ethical and Experiential Dimensions.
A conversation with US District Judge, Honorable Roy K. Altman, and President of Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Alyza D. Lewin, Esq., on antisemitism on college campuses and beyond.
Recorded live on May 9, 2024. Dr. Alan Kadish, President of Touro University, hosts professors and students at American universities across the country for a conversation about antisemitism on American college campuses. Guests are Miri Bar-Halpern (Director of Intensive Outpatient Treatment Service, Boston Child Study Center; Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School), Oren Gross (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Irving Younger Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School; Senior Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany), Marie-Alice Legrand (J.D. Candidate '24, Columbia University), and Talia Segal (B.S. Candidate ’24, Georgia Institute of Technology)
(Recorded live on February 26, 2024) Dr. Alan Kadish, President of Touro University, hosts professors Shai Davidai, PhD (Assistant Professor of Management, Columbia Business School), Claire Finkelstein, JD, PhD (Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy; Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, The University of Pennsylvania), Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD (Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Steven Davidoff Solomon, JD, M.Fin. (Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law) for a conversation about antisemitism on college campuses across the United States.
(Recorded live on January 29, 2024) Dr. Alan Kadish, President of Touro University, hosts Anne Bayefsky (Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust) and David Luchins (Founding Dean of Touro University's Lander College for Women–The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School and Chair of the Political Science Department) for a conversation role of the United Nations in past and current conflicts between Israel and its neighbors.
(Recorded live on December 18, 2023) Dr. Alan Kadish, President of Touro University, in conversation with student leaders on American college campuses, Gabriel Diamond (B.A. Candidate '24, Yale University), Talia Dror (B.S. Candidate '25, Cornell University), Jillian Lederman (A.B. Candidate '24, Brown University), Marie-Alice Legrand (J.D. Candidate '24, Columbia University).
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