Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on September 6, 2014

MADISON - Chabad of Southeast Morris County, based in Madison, will sponsor its eighth annual Jewish Law Symposium at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, at the Birchwood Manor at 111 Jefferson Road in the Whippany section of Hanover Township.

The centerpiece of the symposium will be a panel discussion, Why Cant We All Get Along Difficult Clients, Families in Business, and Inheritances.

Jeff Greenfield, five-time Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and author, will moderate the event, and featured panelists will include the Honorable John W. Bissell, Chief U.S. District Judge, retired; Robert E. Margulies Esq.; Nancy Erika Smith Esq.; H. Glenn Tucker Esq., and Rabbi Daniel Rapp Esq., a noted Talmudic scholar, author and lecturer.

A buffet dinner reception will begin at 5 p.m., followed by the symposium program at 6:30 p.m. The cost of the program is $150 per person; $80 for public sector attorneys and law clerks, and $50 for law students. Scholarships are available on request, and are subject to availability. New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania continuing legal education (CLE) ethics credits will be provided for the event.

Compare, Contrast

The laws and ethics of the Talmud have served as a cornerstone of humanitys civil and moral infrastructure, while shaping its legal judicial systems, remarked Rabbi Shalom Lubin, founder of the Jewish Law Symposium and executive director of Chabad of Southeast Morris County.

This year we will compare and contrast legal reasoning and adaptation between Talmudic and American law, focusing particularly on scenarios of conflict and discord both in the legal and family settings, Lubin observed.

Chairpersons for the event include Martin Aron Esq.; Harold I. Braff Esq.; Cary B. Cheifetz Esq.; John D. Fanburg Esq.; Michael H. Forman Esq.; Marc S. Friedman Esq.; Jacqueline Greenberg Vogt Esq.; Alan R. Hammer Esq.; Tanya N. Helfand Esq.; Kenneth S. Javerbaum Esq.; Norman D. Kallen Esq.; Matthew R. Kaplan Esq.; William M. Laufer Esq.; Stuart M. Lederman Esq.; William F. Maderer Esq.; Kurt D. Olender Esq.; Barry H. Ostrowsky Esq.; Frederick B. Polak Esq.; Neil Reisman Esq.; Kenneth A. Rosen Esq.; Lawrence D. Ross Esq.; Kenneth A Rosenberg Esq.; Edward S. Snyder Esq.; Mark H. Sobel Esq.; the Hon. Edwin H. Stern, retired; Brett Tanzman Esq.; Justin P. Walder Esq.; William D. Wallach Esq.; David B. Wolfe Esq.; Jack Wurgaft Esq.; Scott R. Yagoda Esq., and Vikki S. Zeigler-Payne Esq.

Over the past seven years, the Jewish Law Symposium has become a premier event in the New Jersey legal community, and past panelists include Justice Barry T. Albin, Justice Gary S. Stein and Justice Virginia Long, all of the N.J. Supreme Court; the Hon. Stanley R. Chesler and the Hon. Freda L. Wolfson, both U.S. District Court judges; Rutgers Law School Dean John J. Farmer, and The Ethicist columnist Randy Cohen.

For information and registration for the Jewish Law Symposium, visit http://www.jewishlawsymposium.com, or call (973) 377-0707.

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Jeff Greenfield to moderate panel on Talmudic and American law

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