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Below is the schedule for 2021. All Programs begin at 4 PM unless specified. Click here for videos of past sessions.

2/21/2021 Speaker: Richard Gavatin

Introduction to the Series - The core essentials of Science and Judaism

Now available! Recording of February 21 Session here

3/21/2021 Speaker: Dr. Ralph Graff

Professor of Surgery, St. Louis University School of Medicine

Nine Wash U Jewish Scientists Nobel Prize Laureates

Did you know that 37.5% of All Wash U Nobel winners were Jewish?

Now available! Audio recording and pdf of March 21st presentation

Presentation files

4/18/2021 Speaker: Dr. Alan Rosenberg

Former Asst. Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University;

retired Managing Principal at Energy & Economics Consulting Firm

Emmy Noether - Mathematics - The Noether Theorem (Math)

Jewish and probably the greatest woman mathematician of all time.
Click here to go to the page with the recording of the April Session

5/23/2021 Speaker: Dr. Howard Granok

Science Dept. Chair, Crossroads College Preparatory School; Adjunct Instructor, Wash U in StL

Rosalind Franklin - the actual discoverer of DNA and the Double Helix
Click here to go to the page with the recording of the May Session

7/11/2021 Speaker: Dr. Deborah Rubin

MD, AGAF, William B. Kountz Professor of Medicine, Professor of Developmental Biology
Associate Director for Faculty Affairs Director, Women’s' GI Committee

Eric Kandel - Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology (2000) - Neuroscience

How his early experiences in Vienna under Nazism influenced his life and his life’s work on the biology of memory

7/25/2021 Speaker Larry Friedman - Registration now open!!

Attorney and Partner at Thompson Coburn LLP. At Columbia Law School, one of his professors was
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Also holds a MPA from Princeton University
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Pioneer in litigating on behalf of womens' rights and gender equality.
First Jewish woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

9/19/2021 Speaker: Dr. Bob Olshan

Retired Boeing Engineer, PhD Tel Aviv University BS/MS U

Albert Einstein, his life as a Physicist and a Jew

10/10/2021 Speaker: Dr. Marty Israel

Professor Physics at Wash U

Albert Einstein, his work

11/21/2021 Speaker: Linda Spitzer Gavatin

Retired Business Management & Computer Accounting Professional

Hedy Lamarr - Inventor of Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth
(Yes, THAT Hedy Lamarr)

12/19/2021 Speaker: Dr. Randi Mozenter

Clinical psychologist, board certified in Clinical Psychopharmacology,
Clinical medical staff at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Wash U Medical School.

Aaron T. Beck, Psychiatrist/Psychologist

Turning 100 this year. Considered the founder of cognitive behavior therapy.

Sun, August 1 2021
23 Av 5781

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