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WWW.T OUROL AW.E DU 07 N E W S E V E N T S Touro Law Centers Jewish Law Institute hosted Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik as the Fall 2014 Distinguished Lecturer. Rabbi Soloveichik who is widely known as a leading Jewish thinker theologian and public intellectual delivered an address titled Jews Christians and the Hobby Lobby Decision. Touro Law Professor and Director of the Jewish Law Institute Samuel Levine stated Rabbi Soloveichik is a rising star in the Jewish community and beyond. He has developed a reputation as a thoughtful and original commentator on religious and legal significance. Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik is director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan the oldest Jewish community in America. He graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College received his semikha from RIETS and was a member of its Beren Kollel Elyon. In 2010 he received his doctorate in religion from Princeton University. Rabbi Soloveichik has lectured throughout the United States in Europe and in Israel to both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on topics relating to Jewish theology bioethics religious freedom wartime ethics and Jewish- Christian relations. His essays on these subjects have appeared in The Wall Street Journal Commentary First Things The Weekly Standard Mosaic Azure Tradition and the Torah U-Madda Journal. Rabbi Soloveichik has testified in Congress on the subject of religious liberty and is a board member of The Becket Fund the premier religious liberty law firm in the United States. Nearly 100 judges prosecutors defenders court staff and treatment professionals from around the state convened at Touro Law Center in Central Islip in September 2014 for an all-day conference for New York State jurisdictions interested in starting Veterans Treatment Courts VTCs. The training co-sponsored by Touro Law and the New York State Unified Court System with underwritting support from North Shore-LIJ was designed to increase the approximately 20 New York VTCs courts that allow U.S. veterans suffering from PTSD Traumatic Brain Injury or other consequences of their military service the opportunity to receive counseling and treatment as an alternative to incarceration when they are charged with relatively minor criminal offenses. I am proud of Touro Laws leadership role in helping to improve services statewide for servicemembers and am thankful to North- Shore LIJ for providing a generous grant to fund the training said Dean Salkin. Former Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts of New York State Hon. Gail Prudenti delivered the keynote address on behalf of Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. Other panelists included former New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler Judge Robert Russell of Erie County who established the nations first VTC in 2008 VTC Judges John Toomey of Suffolk County and Marcia Hirsh of Queens and from the Governors Office of Veterans Affairs. Associate Dean Ken Rosenblum who also directs the Veterans Servicemembers Rights Clinic organized the event. Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik - Fall 2014 Distinguished Lecturer at the Jewish Law Institute Touro Law Hosts First Veterans Treatment Court Training Program Co-sponsored by North-Shore LIJ and the New York State Unified Court System This conference marked the first of its kind in the state said Dean Salkin.