Speakers Bureau to Bring World-Renowned Scholars from the Classroom to the Community Apr 22, 2010 -- Yeshiva University has launched a comprehensive Speakers Bureau featuring faculty with expertise in a wide array of disciplines. The initiative – under the auspices of YU’s Center for the Jewish Future – offers more than 100 faculty from the University’s undergraduate, graduate and professional schools and affiliates to serve as keynote speakers and panelists on over 150 areas for lectures, conferences and symposia at schools, community centers, civic organizations and synagogues throughout North America. Welcome to the Speakers Bureau Video. “From Bible to biology, ethics to economics, law to liturgy, Yeshiva University’s Speakers Bureau radiates the intellectual depth and world renowned scholarship of the academy and the bet midrash (study hall) to communities around the world,” said President Richard M. Joel. The Speakers Bureau Web site, provides detailed information on the speakers and the critical topics they address. There are full resumes and photos of faculty and their areas of expertise, as well as the types of events in which they have previously participated. Visitors to the site can also access information and tools to promote their events, establish budgets and procedures for hiring speakers. YU’s Speakers Bureau is distinguished from those offered by other universities in that many of the faculty integrate Jewish values into their curriculum and approach contemporary and historical issues from a variety of sources. The diversity of the faculty is illustrated by outstanding faculty such as Suzanne Last Stone, Dr. Keith Thomas Ayoob, Dr. Adrienne Asch, Rabbi Mordechai Willig and Rabbi Kenneth Brander. Stone is professor of law at YU’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and director of Cardozo’s Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, who lectures on such topics as “Rabbinic Views on Justice” and “Comparative American and Jewish Law.” Dr. Ayoob is director of nutrition services at the Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center and associate professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Asch directs the Center for Ethics at YU and is an advocate for rights of the disabled. Rabbi Willig, the Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Professor of Talmud and Contemporary Halakhah and rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, is one of the most outspoken advocates of Jewish prenuptial agreements to prevent the creation of agunot, Jewish women denied Jewish divorces because of recalcitrant husbands. Rabbi Brander, the David Mitzner Dean of the Center for the Jewish Future, is an expert on the interface between infertility and Jewish law and consults with Jewish communities throughout the United States and Israel on matters of community building and development. For more information, visit www.yu.edu/speakers, email speakersbureau@yu.edu or call (212) 960-5400, ext. 6350.