Prominent Authors Speak at Community
NATIONALLY RENOWNED LITIGATOR BURT NEUBORNE, AUTHORS HAL NIEDZVIECKI AND MICHAEL ROSEN TO SPEAK AT COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE
–Civil Liberties Defender, Social Critic and Local Community Organizer Share Diverse and Intimate Revelations for Jewish Holiday, Shavuot –
MAY 17, 2009, NEW YORK, NY—Every year, on the holiday of Shavuot, the Jewish people celebrate the revelation of G-d at Mount Sinai. This year, Sixth Street Community Synagogue (Community) has a few revelations of its own. To celebrate Shavuot, Community will invite friends, neighbors, Jews and non-Jews to study and learn what true discovery means as Rabbi Charlie Buckholtz moderates discussions with prominent authors and experts throughout the evening.
“SHHHHavuot 2009: Revealing Conversations.”
A discussion on the topic and tensions of revelation in its most literal sense: discovering (or disclosing) things that have been concealed.
Thursday May 28, beginning at 8PM; Program after 9PM
Community Synagogue
325 East Sixth Street, NYC
GUESTS INCLUDE (see below for extended bio)
• Professor Burt Neuborne, former National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
• Hal Niedzviecki: a novelist and social critic, author of the recently published “The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors”
• Michael Rosen: a community organizer and author of newly published “What Else But Home”
This is event is Free. But Donations are welcomed.
RSVP: www.EastVillageShul.com
Professor Burt Neuborne: nationally renowned civil liberties defender who has acted as lead counsel in the recent Holocaust Litigation against the Swiss Banks. A former National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Neuborne is currently on the faculty of New York University School of Law and Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School from where he received an LL.B in 1964. Neuborne has been called a defender of lost causes.
Hal Niedzviecki: novelist and social critic. In 1995, he cofounded the magazine Broken Pencil, a guide to underground arts and zine culture, and was the magazine’s editor until 2002. He has also written for Adbusters, Utne Magazine, This Magazine, Geist, Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Niedzviecki recently published “The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.”
Michael Rosen: community organizer and author. A former real estate developer and investor, former CEO of a Wall Street firm, former CEO of a publicly traded company destroyed in the events of September 11, 2001, and a former assistant professor at New York University. He lives in New York, and with his wife, Leslie Gruss, helps raise “the Rosen family extended.”
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