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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
Click here to hear Debbie's amazing lecture once again (or for the first time)

7/25/2021 Speaker Larry Friedman - Attorney and Partner at Thompson Coburn LLP. At Columbia Law School, one of his professors was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Larry's presentation

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

See it again or for the first time

10/10/2021 Speaker: Dr. Marty Israel

Professor Physics at Wash U

Albert Einstein, his work

Marty's Presentaion - now online

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)

View the presentation here

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

View the presentation here

1/16/2022 Speaker Dr. Phil Gould
Nathan Newmark

Pioneer in the science of earthquakes

2/20/2022 Speaker Sandy Boxerman

Louis Brandeis

3/202022 Speaker Margaret Israel
Primo Levi

4/24/2022 Speaker Dr. Jaron Asher
Sigmund Freud

(Note. Fourth Sunday as Third is Pessach)

Fri, January 28 2022
26 Shevat 5782

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