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SSTEVEN H. RESNICOFF 6557 N. Mozart St., Chicago, Illinois 60645 Phone: 773/973-2335 (H); 312/362-8137 (O) E-mail: [email protected]

PRESENT POSITION: PROFESSOR, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF Promoted, Full Professor, 1995; Tenured, 1994; Promoted, Associate Professor, 1992; Assistant Professor, 1988. I have taught bankruptcy, bioethics, commercial paper, survey, , Jewish law, legal ethics, and secured transactions. Director, DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (since Fall 2014); Co-Director (2007-2014) Adjunct Professor: Northwestern University, Summer 2012: I taught the leadership ethics module of a graduate Certificate Program in Jewish Community Leadership, co-sponsored by Northwestern University and the Spertus College Adjunct Professor, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership (formerly, Spertus College of Jewish Studies): I have taught a variety of Spertus’s Master’s and Doctoral programs in Jewish Studies Visiting Professor, Summer 2002, Brooklyn Law School

AWARDS: DOTS Award for creating a hybrid course that received a perfect 100 rating DePaul University’s Spirit of Inquiry Award, June 2008 College of Law's Excellence in Teaching Award, June 2007 College of Law’s Excellence in Scholarship Award, June 2003 Named by DePaul University as holder of the Wicklander Chair for Business and Professional Ethics for the Academic Year 2000-2001 DePaul University College of Law=s Visiting Professor to Hebrew University Faculty of Law, May 2001 College of Law’s Outstanding Teacher Award, June 1994

LEGAL EDUCATION: YALE LAW SCHOOL, J.D., 1978 MOOT : Finalist, Yale competition Member, Yale National Team Member, Yale Board of Directors ASSISTANT TO CHAIRMAN, Yale University Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, Spring1976

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, A.B., 1974 Phi Beta Kappa Selected, Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs (WWSPIA), 1973 Admitted, special undergraduate program of WWSPIA, 1972

RABBINIC STUDIES: BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA, Rabbinic degree, 1983 Private, Advanced Rabbinic Ordination (yoreh yoreh yadin yadin) by Rabbi Moses Feinstein, of blessed memory

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: Principal: Gerszberg & Resnicoff, Lakewood, NJ (1987-88) Associate: Selesky, Kolsky & Gerszberg, Lakewood, NJ (1984-87); Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, MD (1983-84)

Books and chapters published or accepted for publication: Author, Understanding Jewish Law (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press)(anticipated publication in 2019)

Author, Freedom, Responsibility, and Hope in Jewish Thought, in LAW, RELIGION AND LOVE: SEEKING ECUMENICAL FOR THE OTHER (Paul Barbie and Vanja-Ivan Savic, eds. (Routledge Press: 2017)

Author, J. David Bleich: An Intellectual Portrait, in J. DAVID BLEICH: WHERE HALAKHAH AND PHILOSOPHY MEET, (Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes, eds.)(Boston, Massachusetts: Brill, 2015).

Author, UNDERSTANDING JEWISH LAW (LexisNexis, 2012)

Co-Author (with Professor Donna Litman), Jewish and American Inheritance Law: Commonalities, Clashes and Planning Consequences, in L. Moscovits (ed.), JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES XXII (2012)

Author, Da’at & Censorship, JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES XX (2010)

Author, May Plaintiffs Enjoy a Double Recovery? The "Collateral Source Rule" and Jewish Law, JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES XVIII (2008)

Author, Keeping One=s Word in Commercial & Non-Commercial Contexts, JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES XVI (2007)

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Author, Fraudulent Transfer Law in Illinois, in Robert M. Fishman et al. (eds.), SECURED TRANSACTIONS 2007 EDITION (Illinois Institute for Continuing , 2007) * I authored a chapter on this topic in the 2001edition of this book (see below), prior to enactment in 2005 of major changes to the Bankruptcy Code

Author, Lying and Lawyering: An Honest Perspective in Keith W. Krasemann and Patricia H. Werhane, (eds.), CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN : THE CALLISTA WICKLANDER LECTURES (University Press, 2006) * This chapter was originally published in the DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC AFFAIRS QUARTERLY (see AArticles,@ below)

Author, Contemporary halakhic problems, chapter 29 in Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel (eds.), MODERN : AN OXFORD GUIDE (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Author, The Legal and Halachic Ramifications of Brain Death, in Fred Rosner and Robert Schulman (eds.), MEDICINE AND JEWISH LAW III (Brooklyn, NY: Yashar Books, Inc., 2005)

Co-Author (with Prof. Wayne Lewis), NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER PAYMENT SYSTEMS: PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS (LexisNexis Co., 2004)

Co-Author (with Prof. Wayne Lewis), TEACHER’S MANUAL TO NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER PAYMENT SYSTEMS: PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS (LexisNexis Co., 2004)

Author, Ends and Means in Jewish Law: Lying to Achieve Economic Justice, JEWISH LAW ANNUAL XV (London: Taylor & Francis, 2004)

Author, Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Dying, in Marshall J. Breger (ed.), JEWISH PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL ISSUES (Westport, Ct.: Praeger Publishers, 2003)

Author, Jewish Fraudulent Transfer Law, in H. Gamoran (ed.), JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES XIII (New York: Global Publications, 2002)

Author, Professional Autonomy: A Theological Critique, in Richard O=Dair and Andrew Lewis (eds.), LAW AND RELIGION: CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES VOLUME 4 (Oxford University Press, 2001) Author, Illinois Fraudulent Transfer Law, in Robert M. Fishman et al. (eds.), SECURED TRANSACTIONS (Illinois Institute Continuing Legal Education, 2001)

Author, Helping A Client Violate Jewish Law: A Jewish =s Dilemma, in H.G. Sprecher

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(ed.), JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION STUDIES X (New York: Global Publications, 2000)

Author, The Secular Enforceability of a Beis Din , in Nisson Wolpin (ed.), THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE (Mesorah Publications, 2000) (republication)

Co-Author (with Ira Kasdan), A Proposal for a High School Course in Torah Ethics, in Nisson Wolpin (ed.), THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE (Mesorah Publications, 2000) (republication)

Co-Author, with Michael J. Broyde, The Corporate Veil: A Still Shrouded Mystery, in Aaron Levine and Moses Pava (eds.), JEWISH BUSINESS ETHICS: THE FIRM AND ITS STAKEHOLDERS ( University Press, 1999)

Co-Author, with Prof. Wayne K. Lewis, THE NEW LAW OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS (Michie Company, 1996) - 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004 cumulative updates

Co-Author, with Prof. Wayne K. Lewis, ILLINOIS NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW (Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1994)

Lead Author, BANKRUPTCY ISSUES FOR STATE COURT (American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”), 1995) * Portions were adapted by the ABI in WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE: BANKRUPTCY AND ITS IMPACT ON DOMESTIC RELATIONS AND (ABI, 1997)

Author, Chapter 21, Unsecured Claims, in Queenan, Hendel and Hillinger (ed.), CHAPTER 11 THEORY AND PRACTICE: A GUIDE TO REORGANIZATION (Horsham, Pennsylvania: LRP Publications, 1994) - 1995 update

Contributor to Chapter 23, Subordination of Claims, in Queenan, Hendel and Hillinger (ed.), CHAPTER 11 THEORY AND PRACTICE: A GUIDE TO REORGANIZATION (Horsham, Pennsylvania: LRP Publications, 1994)

Contributing Co-Author, Ginsberg, BANKRUPTCY (2d Edition) (Prentice-Hall, 1989) and periodic updates

Contributing Co-Editor, Ginsberg and Martin, BANKRUPTCY (3rd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1993) - 1994 update

Contributing Co-Editor, Ginsberg and Martin, BANKRUPTCY (4th Edition, Aspen Law & Business, 1995) - 1996 update

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- 1997 update

Author, Chapter 8, Fraudulent Transfers, in ADVANCED COMMERCIAL FINANCE AND CREDITORS RIGHTS IN ILLINOIS (Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1993) - 1996 update

Articles – published or accepted for publication Author, BDS and its Harms, TABLETS (the journal of the Decalogue Society of ) (Fall 2016)

Author, Jewish Identity’s Impact in a Nutshell, RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION VOL. 16 (2015)

Author, Family Planning – Jewish Law Perspectives, to be published in the DEPAUL 15 JOURNAL OF HEALTH CARE LAW 15 (2013)

Author, Circumcision Safety: A Case Study in the Failure of Leaderships, LOOKING FORWARD (the official journal of the Aspen Center for Social Values) 1:3 (June 2014)

Author, Jewish Law and the Tragedy of Sexual Abuse of Children – The Dilemma Within the Orthodox Jewish Community, 13:2 RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION (2012)

Author, Jewish and American Bankruptcy Law: Their Similarities, Differences and Interactions, 19:2 AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE LAW REVIEW (Winter 2011)

Author, Shooting Down Suicide Airplanes - What's Law Got to Do With It?, 10 ISSUES IN & POLICY 281 (Spring 2011)

Author, Illinois’ New Legal Ethics Rules: A Disappointing Travail, 9 DEPAUL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW 29 (FALL 2010)

Author, Autonomy in Jewish Law – in Theory and in Practice, 24 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 507 (2008-09)

Author, Supplying Human Body Parts - a Jewish Law Perspective, 55 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 851 (2006)

Author, Jewish Law and Socially Responsible Corporate Conduct, 11 FORDHAM JOURNAL OF CORPORATE & 681 (2006)

Author, Jewish Law: Duties of the Intellect, 1 UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS LAW REVIEW 386 (Fall 2003)

Author, Lying and Lawyering: Contrasting American and Jewish Law, 77 NOTRE DAME

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LAW REVIEW 937 (March 2002)

Author, Lying and Lawyering: An Honest Perspective, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC AFFAIRS QUARTERLY (Autumn 2001), pp. 7-20

Author, The Attorney-Client Relationship: A Jewish Law Perspective, 14 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY 349 (2000)

Author, Jewish Law Perspectives on Suicide and Physician-Assisted Dying, XIII JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 289 (dated 1998-1999, published in 2000)

Author, Theft of Art During World War II: Its Legal and Ethical Consequences: The Jewish Perspective, X DEPAUL JOURNAL OF ART AND 67 (1999)

Author, Physician-Assisted Dying - Halachic Perspectives, XXXVII JOURNAL OF HALACHA & CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 47 (Spring 1999) * An abbreviated version of this article appeared in German as, Die Niederlande haben die Euthanasie gesetzlich legalisiert: Eine halachishe Exegese zur Aaktiven Sterbehilfe@?, in the German weekly, Allgemeine Zeitgeschehen (April 26, 2001)

Author, A Jewish Look at Lawyering Ethics - a Preliminary Essay, 15 TOURO LAW REVIEW 73 (1998)

Co-Author, with Michael J. Broyde, Jewish Law and Modern Business Structures: The Corporate Paradigm, 43 WAYNE LAW REVIEW 1685 (dated 1997) * This article is posted on the Internet at http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/

Author, Physician-Assisted Suicide Under Jewish Law, 1 DEPAUL JOURNAL OF HEALTH CARE LAW 3 (1997)

Author, Interaction Between Bankruptcy Law and State Law: What Illinois Judges Need to Know, 24 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 437 (1993)

Author, Bankruptcy Law - A Viable Halachic Option? XXIV JOURNAL OF HALACHA & CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 5 (Fall 1992) * This article was reprinted in the first edition of the JOURNAL OF HALACHA AND AMERICAN LAW (1998), published by the Center for Halacha and American Law

* A revised version of this article is posted on the Internet at http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/bankrutpcy.html

Author, Is it Morally Wrong to Depend on the Honesty of Your Partner or Spouse?

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Bankruptcy Dischargeability of Vicarious Debt, 42 CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW 147 (1992)

* Reprinted in 67TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 17-20: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM (1993).

Author, Dischargeability in Bankruptcy of Debts Incurred by APurported Purchasers,” 65 ST. JOHN'S LAW REVIEW 253 (1990)

Author, Barring Bankruptcy Banditry: Revision of Section 523(a)(2)(C), 7 BANKRUPTCY DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL 427 (1990)

Author, A Commercial Conundrum: Does Prudence Permit the Jewish “Permissible Venture”? 20 SETON HALL LAW REVIEW 77 (1990) * A revised version of this article is posted on the Internet as Ribbit Revisited: A Commercial Conundrum: Does Prudence Permit the Jewish “Permissible Venture@?, at http://www.jlaw.com/Articles

Author, The End of a Judicial Odyssey? A Legislative Answer to in Utility Connection Fees, 11 SETON HALL LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL 295 (1988) * Reprinted in PUBLIC UTILITY LAW ANTHOLOGY, Volume XII (1990)

Author, Durable Power of Attorney, LAWYER (August, 1985)

Contributor, Taxation of Computer Software (Part II), 26 , JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1 (Fall 1985)

Jewish Law Association Newsletter: In addition to serving as the editor of the Jewish Law Association from 2006-2012, I authored a number of separate items in the materials in that newsletter. For example, in December 2008, I authored “The Jewish Clause” and Wills, about Illinois litigation regarding the enforceability of a trust provision. Similarly, in the January 2007 edition, I authored both a detailed outline entitled, "Jewish Legal Scholarship and the Internet," and an extensive outline on "Jewish Law and Estate Planning."

DePaul University Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies Enewsletter: An online archive of these enewsletters may be found here: https://law.depaul.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/center-for-jewish-law-and-judaic- studies/Pages/newsletter.aspx

Illinois Judicial Conference Materials: Author of Bankruptcy Law and State , Committee on Economic Distress, Illinois

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Judicial Conference, Fall 1992

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Materials: Author, The Unlimited Personal Liability of Partners: Bankruptcy Implications for Professional Partners, published in 67TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 17-20: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM (1993)

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies: With the express permission of the DePaul College of Law Deans, I have taught several mini-courses as an Adjunct Professor at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. These courses primarily examined interrelationships between Jewish law and secular law, especially as to business law and ethics. I compiled "readers" for each of these courses.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Author, “The Need for an Educational Birthright Program,” published in • The Algemeiner Journal, December 2015 • The Post, December 2015 Author, “Telling the Truth about BDS,” The DePaulia, Spring 2015 Author, “Some People Actually Can’t Handle the Truth,” The DePaulia, Spring 2015

Developer of an Ethics Curriculum for the Certificate in Jewish Leadership Program, sponsored by the Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies and the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies. The first cohort of this program was offered from March through October, 2012.

Author, Contribution to an on-line Symposium on the Ethics of Brain Death and Organ Donations [Under Jewish Law], in Hirhurim-Musings (February 13, 2011), at http://torahmusings.com/2011/02/symposium-on-the-ethics-of-brain-death-and-organ- donation-viii/ and republished on-line in the NEW JERSEY JEWISH STANDARD (Feb. 17, 2011), and available at http://www.jewishmediagroup.com/content/item/ethicists_discuss_organ_donation2/17172

Correspondence (in Hebrew) between me and Rabbi Ezra Basri, Chief Rabbinical , Jerusalem, and Member of the Rabbinical Court of Israel, published by Rabbi Basri in the third volume of his literature, SHA’AREI EZRA. The correspondence focused on the interaction between Jewish law and legal ethics.

Book Review: Review of For the Love of G-d and People: A Philosophy of Jewish Law, by Elliot N. Dorff, in SHOFAR (June 2009), an interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies. It is also on the website of Case Western University at http://www.case.edu/artsci/rosenthal/reviews/Love.htm.

Panel Member, Panel One: Does Corporate Decision Making Allow Room for Religious

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Values?, published in XI FORDHAM JOURNAL OF CORPORATE & FINANCIAL LAW 547 (2006)

Author, Book Review of Jewish Law and the New Reproductive Technologies, XVII JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 193 (2002)

Author, Book Review of Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomy, XVII JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 279 (2002)

Materials on Jewish Business Ethics, used during summer 2001 at a major summer camp sponsored by the National Conference on Synagogue Youth

Comments at a Symposium sponsored by the Touro Law Center on The Enforceability of a Jewish Marriage in an American Court: Is Jewish Law a ?, published in THE JEWISH LAW REPORT (April 2000), pp. 7-15, 2-23, 25-27

Author, Criminal Confessions in Jewish Law (November 1, 2000), published at http://www.jlaw.com./Commentary/crim.confess.html

Translated into Portuguese (without my authorization) and published as “Etica: As Confissoes Criminais Na Lei Judaica,” in News (March-April 2003), at 14-15

Author, Lawyer Discipline Can Sweep Beyond Public Protection (October 29, 2000), published by LAWCOM http://www1.law.com/lawcom/displayid.cfm?statename= IL&docnum=32657&table=news&flag=full

Author, Outline Re: The Secular Enforceability of Bais Din Judgments (2000), published at http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/resni1.html

Co-Author (with Ira Kasdan), A Proposal for a High School Course in Torah Ethics, IN BUSINESS (December 1999), pp. 50-60, and posted on the AJewish Law@ website, sponsored by the Orthodox Union, at http://www.jlaw.com/Commentary/TorahEthics.html

Author, The Secular Enforceability of a Beis Din Judgment, THE JEWISH OBSERVER (October 1999), pp. 17-20

Author, Limiting the Availability of Bankruptcy Relief: A Jewish Law Perspective, in BANKRUPTCY COURT DECISIONS: WEEKLY NEWS AND COMMENT (February 3, 1998), pp. A3-A4 * This article is also available on the AJewish Law@ website, sponsored by the Orthodox Union, at http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/

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Abstract of article, Jewish Law and the Corporate Paradigm, by Michael J. Broyde and Steven H. Resnicoff, in NEWSLETTER OF THE JEWISH LAW ASSOCIATION (January 1997), pp. 7-10

Author, Outline, Why the AJC Should Change its Position on Vouchers: A Preliminary Draft, distributed at the meeting of the Midwest Regional Board of Governors of the American Jewish Congress, January 25, 1998

Miscellaneous other book reviews, newspaper articles, outlines distributed at numerous legal education programs

SELECTED APPEARANCES, PRESENTATIONS & INTERVIEWS: Panel member (one of two); “How Anti-Israel Propaganda is Insinuated into Assigned School Materials: A Case Study,” CLE Program sponsored by JLJS, at DePaul; January 23, 2018

Keynote speaker, “The Israeli Supreme Court: A Force For or Against \Democracy?’, at CLEE program sponsored Co-sponsored by JLJS, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers and Congregation A.G. Beth Israel, at Congregation A.G. Beth Israel, Lincolnwood, IL; December 3, 2017

Presenter, “How the West and its Institutions Have Abandoned Religious and Racial Minorities,” at the Chicago- Kent College of Law, sponsored by the Kent chapter of the Louis D. Brandeis Center and the Kent Decalogue Society. November 28, 2017

Presenter , “Formal Rules Versus Justice: Contracts Against Public Policy,” in Jewish Commercial and Intellectual , a CLE program co-sponsored by Pepperdine University's Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies, the American Jewish University Los Angeles, and the Jewish Law Association, at the American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA., October 30, 2017

Presenter (one of two), “The First Amendment and Combating Antisemitism Online,” a CLE program sponsored by JLJS, at DePaul College of Law; October 19, 2017

Panel member (one of two), at the National Conference of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists, “Making a Murderer: Evolution of False and Coerced Confessions,” at the National Conference of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists, at the Standard Club, Chicago, on September 12, 2017

Panel member, “Limiting Words: Hate Speech or Free Speech?”, in “Legacy of Nuremburg”

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Panel Member, “Antisemitism: Federal & State ,” at the National Conference of the Academic Engagement Network, May 16, 2017

Presenter, “Ivory Tower Terror – Combating Antisemitism on College Campuses,” at Congregation Kehilat Chovevei Tzion, in Skokie, Il., May 7, 2017.

Presenter, “Antisemitism at the United Nations?,” at the University of Minnesota School of Law, February 28, 2017

Presenter, “Responding to Antisemitism in the UN (& other International Institutions): What Can America Do?,” at the Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation A.G. Beth Israel, in Skokie, IL, December 11, 2016

Presenter, Innovative Methods for Resolving “Agunah” (i.e., Jewish Divorce Law) Problems, Congregation Ezras Israel, Chicago, IL., June 11, 2016

Presenter, “Ivy Tower Terror: New Approaches to Combating Antisemitism on Campus,” at Congregation KINS, Chicago, IL, May 22, 2016

Panelist, “Challenging Anti-Israel BDS in American Courts,” CLE program at the National Conference of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists,” at the Standard Club, May 18, 2016. A video of that session can be found HERE.

Presenter, Opening Benediction and Introduction for “The Search for the White Rose – Holocaust Remembrance Day Event at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Campus, May 4, 2016. Other speakers included Dr. Adina Sella, Holocaust Survivor; Peter Logue, Director and creator; and Sara Kimble, Assistant Professor

Moderator, “Awakening the World to the Persecution of Christians Throughout the Middle East,” April 12, 2016. Speakers included

Co-Commentator (with Cliff Scott-Rudnick, Assistant Professor, John Marshall Law School), Legal Ethics – Illinois & Jewish Approaches to Issues Raised on TV, CLE program held at Congregation Bnai Tikvah, Deerfield, Illinois, March 6, 2016.

Panel Member, Religious Arbitration, program held at Loyola University School of Law, February 8, 2016.

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Keynote Speaker, Using Legal Skills to Confront BDS and other forms of Anti-Semitism, CLE program at the Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation, co-sponsored by the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies, and the Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation, December 6, 2015. Roey Gilad, Israel’s Consul General to the Midwest, and Dr. Charles Jacobs, head of Americans for Peace & Tolerance, were among the other speakers.

Moderator, Sexual Abuse of Children in the Jewish Community, CLE program co-sponsored by the Decalogue Society of Layers, Congregation Ezras Israel of West Rogers Park, and the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS), November 8, 2015. The panel included, among others, Dr. Michael Salomon (a leading psychologist in this field), an Assistant State’s Attorney, and a Detective from the Special Investigations Unit of the Cook County Department.

Presenter, Consensual and Non-Consensual Sexual Behavior: Comparing and Contrasting the of Doctors and Lawyers,” CLE and CME program at DePaul University, co-sponsored by the DePaul University College of Law’s Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies, its Jaharis Institute and the Rosalind Franklin University, April 16, 2015.

Presenter, Self-Incrimination: In Secular Law and Jewish Law, CLE program at the National Conference of Jewish Lawyers, at Chicago’s Palmer House, August 26, 2015

Keynote Speaker, “Holocaust Remembrance Day,” sponsored by Sheérit HaPleitah of Metropolitan Chicago, April 19, 2015. Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner was one of the other speakers.

Keynote Speaker, How to Combat Anti-Semitism/Anti-Zionism from a Legal (Jewish & American) Perspective," CLE program at the Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation, co- sponsored by the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies, and the Lincolnwood Jewish Congregation, December 7, 2014. Roey Gilad, Israel’s Consul General to the Midwest, was one of the other speakers.

Presenter, The ABCs of the BDS Movement: A Workshop for Faculty, at DePaul University, co-sponsored by the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies and Stand With Us, August 10, 2014

Sole Presenter, The Case of Cloning: How Jewish Law Authorities Decide Bioethics Questions, part of the National Jewish Retreat held at the Palmer House, sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, August 10, 2014

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Presenter, The Sexual Abuse of Children: The Interrelationship Between Mandatory Reporting and Jewish Law, part of “Workshop on Religious Law in Civil Courts, Brandeis University,” sponsored by the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, May 29, 2014

Presenter, The Truth About BDS, in a program held at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Student Center, sponsored by the DePaul University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, May 7, 2014. The other speakers were Roey Gilad, Israel Consul General to the Midwest and Cameron Erickson, a DePaul undergraduate. Prof. Patrick Callaghan of the Political Science Department was the moderator.

Presenter, What Does Jewish Medical Ethics Have to Say about Genetics and Health, part of the Leifer Lecture, at the University of Chicago Hillel, sponsored by the Center for Jewish Genetics, April 27, 2014

Presenter, The Impact of Jewish Identity on a Legal Career, part of Judaism and : People of the Book (Spring Symposium), sponsored by the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies, April 3, 2014. This program leading Jewish constitutional law professors from around the country.

Scholar in Residence, Congregation Ezras Israel, Chicago, April 11-12. I made presentations on a number of Jewish law topics, including the following: (1) The Scope of “Pidyon Shevuyim”[i.e., the Jewish Law doctrine of Redeeming Captives]; and (2) What's delaying the Geulah? Understanding - and Misunderstanding - Mesirah [i.e., the Jewish law doctrine generally forbidding the surrender of to non-Jews].

Presenter, Circumcision Safety: A Case Study in the Failure of Leaderships, at the Religious Legal Theory Conference, Emory School of Law University 2014), sponsored by the Emory University Center for Law and Religion, February 25, 2014

Panelist (one of three), The Complex Reality of Israel on Campus: A Discussion, co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Chicago and the Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, January 30, 2014. The other panelists were Professor Elie Rekhess (Crown Chair for Israel Studies, Northwestern University) and Michael Kotzin (vice-president, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago).

Presenter, The Causes and Cures of Unethical Business Practices – A Jewish Perspective, at “The Henry Kaufman Conference on Religious Traditions and Business Behavior (2013),” sponsored

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Panel Member, Conference on Tikkun Olam, sponsored by the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS), October 24, 2013

Panel Member, The Circumcision Debate: Medical and Legal Implications, at Judaism, Health and Healing: A Chicago Community Resource Conference, April 14, 2013 (conference co- sponsored by the DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies, the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership and the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)

Presenter, Congregation Yehuda Moshe’s Night of Knowledge,” November 10, 2012, The Needs of the One or the Needs of the Many: Which Takes Precedence?

Sole Speaker, Program sponsored by JLJS at DePaul University on September 12, 2012, entitled, “Understanding Jewish Law.”

Keynote Speaker, Regional Yom Iyun – “The Many Faces of Abuse: Jewish and Clinical Perspectives,” sponsored by the Chicago/Midwest Jewish Chaplains Group, in partnership with the Jewish Healing Network of Chicago, the National Association of Jewish Chaplains and the Chicago Board of Rabbis, August 29, 2012

Presenter, Jewish Law Association Conference, Yale University, August 2, 2012. Topic: May One Kill Some Innocents to Save Others?

Presenter, CLE Program sponsored by JLJS at DePaul University entitled, “A Comparative Analysis of Law through the Examination of Biblical, Talmudic and Scholarly Texts.” Topic: and Legal Ethics: Comparisons and Contrasts, May 30, 2012.

Presenter, CLE Program sponsored by JLJS at DePaul University entitled, “A Comparative Analysis of Law through the Examination of Biblical, Talmudic and Scholarly Texts.” Topic: Reporting Child Sexual Abuse to Secular Authorities - Jewish law Perspectives." May 30, 2012.

Sole Presenter, Professionalism CLE Program sponsored by JLJS at Congregation KINS, West Rogers Park, Chicago, on December 18, 2011. Topic: Is Law a Suitable Career for a Good Jewish Boy or Girl?

Presenter at Third Session of Program entitled, Judaism in Professional Life, November 17, 2011, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and sponsored by Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies. Topic: Financial & Business Ethics: What's Judaism Got to Do With It?

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Panel Member at Symposium entitled, Religion and Bankruptcy: Perspectives Thereon and Treatment Therein, sponsored by the St. John’s University School of Law’s Centers for Bankruptcy Studies and for Law and Religion, held at the St. John’s University School of Law, September 16, 2011. Topic: Jewish and American Bankruptcy Law: Their Similarities, Differences and Interactions

Presenter, International Conference entitled, in Jewish Law, sponsored by the Yad HaRav Herzog Institution and JMB, Factor & Co., in Jerusalem, June 26, 2011. Topic: Halakhic Issues involved in Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Commencement Speaker, Hebrew Theological College, June 20, 2011

Sole Guest Lecturer, 33rd Nachman Patinkin Memorial Lecture, Hebrew Theological College (also known as “the Skokie Yeshiva”), May 29, 2011. Topic: Anti-Israel Hostility in Academia – Acknowledging and Fighting It. An audio version of this lecture is available at http://www.htc.edu/

Panel member, Northwestern University College of Law, Economics of Biotechnology: The Human Gene Patenting Debate, sponsored by Northwestern University College of Law Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property as part of its Sixth Annual Symposium, March 4, 2011

One of two speakers, January 20, 2011, CLE program sponsored by DePaul College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies (JLJS). Topic: Common Problems in the Representation of Jewish Clients

One of two speakers, December 8, 2010, CLE program sponsored by JLJS in Deerfield, IL. Topic: Jewish Estate Planning and the Estate of Feinberg

Introductory remarks comparing the American and European laws of defamation and their interactions, October 15, 2010, CLE program sponsored by JLJS and the DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, at DePaul. Topic: The Mohammed al-Dura “Hoax”

One of two speakers, Keynote Program for Conference entitled, Founding A Nation/Constituting A People: American and Judaic Perspectives, May 15, 2010, sponsored by JLJS and funded by the Jack Miller Center

Sole Presenter, February 17, 2010, CLE program sponsored by JLJS, at DePaul. Topic: Double Dipping: A Comparison of American and Jewish Approaches

Sole Presenter, program at the Northwestern University Law School sponsored by the

16 Jewish Law Students Association, March 8, 2010. Topic: Jewish Law and Legal Ethics

Presenter, February 7, 2010, program entitled, Jewish Family Law, the Agunah and General Issues in Jewish Law, sponsored by the Fordham University School of Law Conference. Topic: Responding to Sexual Abuse of Children – Jewish Law Issues

Presenter (one of two presenters), January 27, 2010, CLE program co-sponsored by JLJS and DePaul College of Law Health Law Institute, January 27, 2010. Topic: Issues in Genetic Engineering: Jewish and American Legal Perspectives)

Sole Presenter, November 4, 2009, CLE program sponsored by JLJS, at DePaul. Topic: Debtor Collection and Bankruptcy – A Comparison of Jewish and American Law

Presenter (one of two), March 24, 2009, CLE program sponsored by JLJS. Topic: Ethical Issues in Jewish and American

Responder, March 6, 2009, Ethics Panel of the DePaul College of Law Arbitration Symposium

Panel member, November 13, 2008, Conference sponsored by the Jewish Students Association of John Marshall Law School, Chicago, November 13, 2008. Topic: Estate of Feinberg: The Enforceability of “the Jewish Clause” in Wills

Panel Chair, October 26, 2008, Twelfth Annual Conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, co-sponsored by the DePaul Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies. Panel topic: New Approaches to Jewish Law

Speaker, October 26, 2008, Twelfth Annual Conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, co-sponsored by the DePaul Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies. Topic: Killing People to Save Lives – Does Jewish Law Allow it?

Speaker, October 23-25, entitled, Speaking of Law and Religion, sponsored by Hamline University School of Law Journal of Law and Religion. Topic: Autonomy in Jewish Law – in Theory and in Practice

Speaker, Judaica Fest 2008, July 2008, Joint Conference of the Jewish Law Association and the British Jewish Studies Association, at the University of Manchester, UK. Topic: Da’at Torah (Rabbinic Authority) and Censorship

Chair, November 28, 2006, Panel entitled, Developments in Consumer Bankruptcy Under the Bankruptcy Abuse and Act, a CLE program sponsored by the Chicago Association.

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Speaker, July 2006, Jewish Law Association’s 2006 Conference, Bar-Ilan University. Topic: May Plaintiffs Enjoy a Double Recovery? The "Collateral Source Rule” and Jewish Law

Speaker, December 6, 2005, at a CLE program in Seattle, Washington sponsored by the of Seattle. Topics: (1) Bankruptcy Law - American, Israeli and Jewish law: Perspectives on Bankruptcy Law's "Fresh Start" Policy; and (2) Whistleblowing versus Confidentiality: The Responsibilities of Lawyers under Jewish and Secular Law

Presenter, March 4, 2005, DePaul University Law Review Symposium entitled, Precious CommoditiesBThe Supply and Demand of Body Parts. Topic: Supplying Human Body Parts - a Jewish Law Perspective

Speaker, November 16, 2004, CLE program at the law offices of Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Texas. Topic: Bankruptcy Law - American, Israeli and Jewish Law Perspectives on Bankruptcy Law=s AFresh Start@ Policy

Speaker, November 16, 2004, CLE entitled, Halachic Estate Planning Seminar at the Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas. Topic: Where There=s a Will, There=s a Halacha Way

Speaker, August 4, 2004, Jewish Law Association=s 2004 Boston Conference, at Boston University. Topic: Keeping One's Word in Commercial & Non-Commercial Contexts

Speaker, June 9, 2004, CLE program, in St. Louis, Missouri. Topic: Jewish Law and the Corporate Paradigm

Panel Member, Sanctuary May 23, 2004 Television Telecast WLS ABC7. Topic: Jewish Law and the Modern World

Speaker, May 3, 2004, Conference sponsored by the Kollel of Ottawa Choshen Mishpat Conference, Ottawa, Canada. Topic: Jewish Business Ethics

Speaker, February 23, 2004, Fordham School of Law Conference entitled, Religious Values and Corporate Decision Making. Topic: Does Corporate Decision Making Allow Room for Religious Values?)

Speaker, October 17, 2003, University of St. Thomas Symposium entitled, G-d, the Person, History and the Law: Themes from the Work of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. Topic: Jewish Law: Duties of the Intellect

Speaker, June 10, 2003, CLE, St. Louis, Missouri. Topic: Legal Ethics - The Role of Honesty Scholar-in-Residence, January 3-5, 2003, at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. Topics: (1) Keeping Commitments in Business and Personal Life; (2) Whistleblowing and

18 the Disclosure of Other Purportedly Confidential Information; (3) Jewish Law Issues in Stem Cell Research and Application

Speaker, September 4, 2002, at the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of DePaul University=s Business Ethics Institute. Topic: Whistleblowing and Legal Ethics in Illinois

Sole Speaker, March 13, 2002, Harvard Law School=s Jewish Law Students Association Program. Topic: Capital Punishment and Jewish Law

Sole Speaker, October 24, 2001, Wicklander Colloquium, DePaul University. Topic: Lying and Lawyering: An Honest Perspective

Sole Speaker, May 15, 2001, Hebrew University=s Jewish Law Institute Colloquium. Topic: Talmudic Law of Fraudulent Transfer

Speaker, June 5, 2001, CLE program, in St. Louis. Topics: (1) Plea-Bargains and Confessions: Prosecutorial Ethics in Jewish and Secular Legal Systems; and (2) Fraudulent Transfers and Jewish Law)

Speaker, January 3, 2001, Annual Conference of the Association of American Law Schools, Program sponsored by the Section on Jewish Law, in San Francisco. Topic: Social Norms and Jewish Law

Speaker, July 25, 2000, Jewish Law Association Conference, in Zutphen, Netherlands. Topic: Jewish Law=s Response to Irreligious Commercial Conduct: A Comparison of the Jewish and Secular Approaches to Fraudulent Transfers

Speaker, July 3, 2000, Law and Religion Conference, sponsored by University College London, in London. Topic: Professional Autonomy: A Theological Critique

Speaker, May 7, 2000, Luncheon Program sponsored by the Dan German Association of Dayton Jewish Professionals, Dayton, OH. Topic: Jewish Law and Confidentiality

Speaker, April 24, 2000, CLE program, co-sponsored by the Orthodox Union and the Beth Din [i.e., Rabbinic Court] of America, in New York City, NY. Topic: Legal Issues in Business Practice

Commentator, May 2, 1999, Conference on Clergy Confidentiality, sponsored by Cardozo Law School, in New York City, NY. Topic: The Possibility of Imposing Civil Liability on Rabbis For DisclosingAConfidential@ Communications

Speaker, April 25, 1999, Halacha Conference for Business Leaders & Professionals, sponsored by Agudath Israel of America, in New York City, NY. Topic: The Secular

19 Enforceability of Bais Din Judgments

Speaker, March 19, 1999, Health Care and Hospice Conference sponsored by the Institute for Health Law of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, DePaul University College of Law Health Law Institute, American Bar Association et al. Topic: Jewish Tradition on Pain and Dying

Speaker and workshop director, February 14-15, 1999, Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists Symposium. Topic: The Legal and Halachic Ramifications of Brain Death

Moderator, January 7, 1999, Annual Program of the AALS Section on Jewish Law, New Orleans, LA. Topic: Perspectives on Teaching Jewish Law - Independently and as Part of a Law & Religion Program

Speaker, November 23, 1998, Touro Law Center Symposium. Topic: The Enforcement of a Jewish Marriage Contract in a Civil Court: Is Jewish Law a Religious Law?

Speaker, November 5, 1998, Law and Religion Colloquium sponsored by Emory University School of Law. Topic: Physician-assisted Suicide

Scholar in Residence, November 6-7, Young Israel of Touco Hills, GA. I made a number of presentations on various Jewish law topics.

Interviewee (along with Israeli Deputy Attorney General Nahum Rakover and Professors J. David Bleich and Chaim Povarsky), August 8, 1998, The Voice of Israel radio program, in Jerusalem, Israel

Presenter, August 3-6, 1998, The Jewish Law Association’s Summer 1998 Conference. Topic: A Jewish Look at Lawyering Ethics

Speaker, March 10, 1998, Pediatric Center=s 37th Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Program’s Medical Ethics Symposium. Topic: Changing the Criteria for Death: Legal Ramifications

Interviewee on Rick Adelman=s nationally syndicated program, Managing Your Money, WLS radio, March 7, 1998. Topic: Bankruptcy Law Reform

Speaker, February 11, 1998, Decalogue Society of Jewish Lawyers. Topic: Jewish Law and Modern Reproductive Technologies

Speaker, January 25, 1998, meeting of the Midwest Regional Board of Governors of the American Jewish Congress. Topic: Why the AJC Should Change its Position on Vouchers

20 Speaker, June 16, 1997, CLE program entitled, The Third Conference on and Contemporary Law, St. Louis, MO. Topic: A Lawyer=s Bag of Tricks: Courtroom Antics and Negotiating Tactics in Jewish Law and Ethics

Speaker, May 6, 1997, DePaul Alumni Program on Commercial Law Developments. Topic: Bankruptcy Law Developments, Especially Those Involving Domestic Relations Law

Panel Member, April 16, 1997, program entitled, A Domestic Relations Division Lunch and Learn Program, sponsored by the Office of the Chief Judge Circuit Court of Cook County and the Family Justice Leadership Institute and presented by the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Speaker, May 29, 1996, Lunch and Learn Program sponsored by the Decalogue Society of Jewish Lawyers. Topic: Am I My Brother=s Keeper?

Speaker, February, 1996, Chicago Bar Association program. Topic: Developments regarding the Nondischargeability of Debts

Panel Member, January 4, 1996, Jewish Law Section=s AALS Program, San Antonio, TX. Topic: Contrasting Jewish law and Secular Law Approaches toAEconomic Justice@

Speaker, May 17, 1995, Decalogue Society of Jewish Lawyers. Topic: How Much May – and How Much Should - Government Assist Religion?

Speaker, April 28, 1995, Annual Conference of Seventh Circuit Bankruptcy Judges. Topic: Developments in the Law Affecting Secured Creditors

Speaker, February 20, 1994, Second Annual Connecticut Symposium on Jewish Law. Topic: Scope of Legal Obligation: Jewish law and Approaches

Panel member, October 19, 1993, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Orlando, FLA. Topic: Professional Partnership Bankruptcies

Speaker, March 30, 1993, Chicago Bar Association program entitled, Advanced Commercial Finance and Creditors' Rights. Topic: Fraudulent Transfers

Professor Reporter to the Committee on Economic Distress, Illinois Judicial Conference, Program on Economic Distress, 1992

Speaker, 1992, DePaul University College of Law Annual Tax Seminar. Topic: Bankruptcy Law Issues

Speaker, May 17, 1992, Program on Rabbinic Courts and the American Legal System,

21 co-sponsored by Cardozo School of Law and the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs. Topic: Avoiding Forfeit of the Right to Adjudicate inABet Din@

Principal speaker, January 1992, inaugural meeting of AALS Section on Jewish Law, at AALS Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX. Topic: Overlapping Legal Systems: Accommodating Jewish Law in a Secular Commercial Context

Sole speaker, May 31, 1991, Luncheon of the Bankruptcy Judges of the Northern District of Illinois. Topic: Bankruptcy Dischargeability of Vicariously Incurred Debt

Numerous additional presentations on Jewish law and ethics, and their relationship to secular law, to diverse audiences.

BAR AFFILIATIONS: New Jersey (state and federal), Maryland (inactive list) United States Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit) United States Supreme Court

MEMBER, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION Jewish Law Association (This is an international organization promoting Jewish Law scholarship. Its website is at http://www.mucjs.org/JLAS/) Chair, Board (2002-2004) Chair, Publication Committee (1998-2002) Member, Executive Committee (1998-2012) Editor, eNewsletter (2006-July 2012) Board of Advisors, Agudath Israel of America Legal Services LLC Member (2009-present) DePaul University Institute for Business and Professional Ethics Member, Board of Trustees (2005-2006) National Institute for Judaic Law Co-Director of its Inaugural Project on Corporate Ethics (2002-2005) AALS Section on Jewish Law Chair (1998-1999) Chair-Elect (1997-1998, 2001-2003) Treasurer (2003-2004) Secretary (1996-1997) Member, Executive Committee (1992-2005) AALS Section on Creditors' and Debtors' Rights Executive Committee (1996-1997) Subcommittee on Legislation (past member) Advisory Board, American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review (1993-2000) Curriculum Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute (1995-2000) American Bar Association, Member

22 Academic Engagement Network (Member, since 2015) Decalogue Society of Lawyers (various years; most recently since 2015)

COLLEGE OF LAW & UNIVERSITY SERVICE (includes, but is not limited to, the following): Member, University Board on Promotion and Tenure (2007-2010) Member, DePaul University Faculty Council (elected by the College of Law Faculty; 2011-2014); Faculty Council Alternate (2010-2011) Committee on the Status of the Faculty, DePaul University Faculty Council Chair (1993-1995) Member (2011-2014) Agenda Committee of DePaul University Faculty Council, ex officio member (1993-1995) Chair, College of Law Business Law Journal Committee (1993-1997) Chair, Dean’s Review Committee (1995-1996) Chair or member of various College of Law committees including, without limitation: Term Faculty Review Committee (Chair, 2016-present) Curriculum Committee (past, but for many years) Faculty Advisory Committee to Career Services (Chair, 2014-present) Technology and Facilities Committee (current) Faculty Advisory Committee of College of Law Health Law Institute (various years) Academic Quality Committee (Co-Chair, 2013) Academic Policy Committee (past) DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal (many years) Visitation Committee (many years) Ad Hoc Committee on Race Relations (past) College of Law Grade Challenge Committee (past)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Anonymous reviewer (for the Journal of Law & Religion, Hebrew Union College, Oxford University Press, etc.) Reviewer of promotion and tenure candidates for various colleges and universities, including Bar- Ilan University, Emory University School of Law, University of Maryland School of Law; Netanya Academic College, Ono College, Touro Law Center