Alan Dershowitz to Deliver Ruth B. Wildes Memorial Lecture

On Saturday, November 23, 2013, Professor Alan M. Dershowitz delivered the annual Ruth B. Wildes Memorial Lecture.

Professor Dershowitz will speak on "The Vanishing American Jew". Doors will open at 8:00 P.M. The lecture will begin at 8:30. Tickets are $20.00 each.

Due to popular demand, the event will be held at Lincoln Square Synagogue, 180 Amsterdam Avenue.

Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native and a graduate of Yale Law School, who joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Justice Arthur Goldberg. Professor Dershowitz has been called both "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and "Israel's single most visible defender." He has published more than 1000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and blogs such as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and Ha'aretz. Additionally, Professor Dershowitz is the author of 30 fiction and non-fiction works with a worldwide audience, including The New York Times #1 bestseller Chutzpah, The Vanishing American Jew and The Case for Israel 1 &2. Nobe Laureate Elie Wiesel has said of Mr. Dershowitz: "If there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different."