Happy Passover to all! Here is the last student blog of the trip (other than I’ll post my own wrap up later this week) Our last part of the trip were two speakers that I wanted to save for the end in order to really focus on the skills and thinking that our law students … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day 4–Listening & Hope
I share the feelings of sadness and loss because of Elayne Greenberg’s death that people described on the DRLE and NYC-DR listservs. I don’t have a lot of words to add to the eloquent things that others have said. She was a truly decent person who cared about others and worked hard to make the … Continue reading Remembering Elayne
It is with incredible sadness that I am announcing the passing of our dear DR colleague Elayne Greenberg on Friday. Here is the letter that went out to St John’s faculty yesterday: Colleagues, I am sad to share the news that our colleague Elayne Greenberg passed away last night. Elayne’s son, Carey Alexander (who graduated … Continue reading Elayne Greenberg
Another part of our day on Thursday was thinking about the law and law schools. On Monday evening, we had heard from Cochav Elykam-Levy, who is the chair of the civil commission on the war crimes committed by Hamas against women and children. (And, while we were still in Israel, she was awarded the Israel … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day Four–Law & Law Schools
On Thursday, we focused on the aftermath of October 7th in a few different ways. One was recovery—how were the institutions and people of Israel moving forward in helpful ways. Another was the law and law schools which I will cover in the next blog. And then, finally, how to equip students to come home… … Continue reading Israel Reflections–Day Four–Recovery
As many of you know, Pace Law School, largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Pace Prof. Eric Bergsten, founded the Vis Moot competition more than 30 years ago. Prof. Bergsten passed away last summer at the age of 92. I am passing along the below call for tributes to Prof. Bergsten from Pace’s International … Continue reading Call for Tributes to Prof. Bergsten
After coming back to Tel Aviv, we had our last day of the trip—day 4 of what already felt like a 4 week trip. No visit to Tel Aviv is complete today without a stop to the courtyard of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now known as Hostages Square. We visited the art installations … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Four–Hostage Square
After a very long day at sites of destruction, we were so blessed to have time with freed hostage Liat Atzili. Liat was kidnapped by Hamas and returned after 54 days in one of the exchanges last fall. Liat had already written quite beautifully about her experience for the New York Times in February in … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Three–Meeting with Freed Hostage Liat Atzili
Lovely to see so many colleagues this past weekend at the ABA! And back to reporting from last month’s trip to Israel: We had started day three by visiting Kibbutz Urim with Julia Chaitin, which miraculously escaped harm from Hamas. We stopped in the middle of the day at Kibbutz Nirim, where we visited with … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2024–Day Three–Kibbutz Be’eri/Honoring Vivian Silver
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the Vis Moot in Vienna, Austria on behalf of my law school and arbitrating a few sessions. I used some of my “down time” to visit the Jewish Museum in Vienna (mainly to learn more about the history of Jewish life and persecution in the … Continue reading Conceptions of Peace
