Contact: Darren Johnson, (631) 421-2244, ext. 383.

November 13, 2006

“Israel and the U.N.” Discussion at Touro Law Center

Huntington, N.Y. – The Jewish Programs Committee of Touro Law Center presents “Israel and the U.N.: A Close Look at the Troubled Relationship” on Thursday, November 16, with a reception at 5:30 p.m. and talk: 6:00 p.m. in the Faculty Conference Room, Touro Law Center, 300 Nassau Rd., Huntington, N.Y.

The event is free and open to the public. Food and refreshments will be available.

Speaker is Prof. Anne Bayefsky, a distinguished international human rights law scholar who is the director of the Law Center’s Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. The institute is a resource for the study and analysis of the role of law and legal institutions in the Holocaust and its aftermath. Prof. Bayefsky is also associated with the Hudson Institute, an international public policy “think tank,” and York University, Canada.

She is the recipient of Canada's preeminent human rights research fellowship, the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research, is a member of the International Law Association Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice, and has written or edited many leading legal reference works in the field of international human rights.

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