Excited to join (as a nonresident fellow) this vibrant community of scholars asking hard and important questions about contemporary antisemitism

“But if the Passover Seder is to teach us anything with its many reminders of the depths of human pain and suffering, it should be that we must renounce such false choices... Our hearts can hold a multitude of pains,” writes Fellow Zalman Rothschild. buff.ly/3w5puFc

As a descendant of Holocaust survivors who faced actual pogroms, I am scared by some of the language at Yale and Columbia, but an authoritarian response does not make me feel safer. Zalman Rothschild said this so well: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

A last-minute Passover/Seder thought from me for those interested. latimes.com/opinion/story/… Los Angeles Times

So happy to see this paper as download of the week. I am currently working on an updated version, I think there is definitely room for improvement, stay tuned!

Poetic and enriching keynote by Dr. Hille Haker on children’s rights and moral responsibility at the Universität Luzern

Super jazzed to be giving a keynote at this Universität Luzern conference on children’s rights alongside scholars I admire so much, including Mary Anne Case, Emily Buss, and former President of Ireland, Mary McAaleese

My superstar UChicago Law School colleague Meighan Parker just published a fascinating piece on Black churches and telehealth. You definitely want to read this! (@DorfmanDoron Lindsay Wiley (((Dorit Reiss))) Liz Sepper I. Glenn Cohen) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Panel 2 Pepperdine Caruso Law Nootbaar Fellows Conference: The Future of Religious Exemptions.

Hearing from Christopher Lund, Stephanie Hall Barclay Zalman Rothschild, Nelson Tebbe, and Pat Reidy.

A The New York Review of Books review of ‘Constitutional Contagion’—a book that looks at the role of the law in public health—cites research from Fellow Zalman Rothschild examining vaccine mandate cases involving religious objections. buff.ly/4a60Svd

So flattered to see Linda Greenhouse discuss my The Yale Law Journal essay in her latest NYRB piece on Covid and the Court

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Dan was my Climenko. I once asked what he thought about practicing law a bit before doing a fellowship. He said “it’s important to learn how to wear a suit and tie and be accountable for a year or two.” That was superb advice then, as I’m sure his advice in this thread is now.

Beyond excited to give a talk at @yalelaw’s Free Exercise Speaker Series this coming year and see first hand what Kate Stith and Michael Avi Helfand have been up to

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A terrific insight from the always brilliant Zohar Atkins. (I’ll just add that some others, ranging from Schmitt to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, would fit nicely into this paradigm.)

One of my favorite books about one of my favorite thinkers. (One day one of these decades I hope to do a project on Levinas’s (I think failed) attempt to reconcile his philosophy of alterity and law)

Can someone pls organize a petition signed by the greatest legal scholars and advocates of the day that WestLaw stop signing us out after 30 min of inactivity? Thomson Reuters Westlaw

What could be better than a 2-day engaging interdisciplinary workshop on law, religion, and equality? Nuffield College Liz Sepper Alan W. Patten Rick Garnett🇮🇱 Sherif Girgis Andrew Koppelman

Excited to be in conversation this week with Lisa Rosen about insular religious education (law.uchicago.edu/events/private…)