SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE Dr. David Luchins

Weekend of November 7, 2015

FRIDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 6 ISIS and Hamas: Are the Bad Guys Winning? 8:30pm Oneg at the home of Eva Gail and Murray Bresler 7934 Stanford, University City

SHABBAT MORNING, DR. DAVID LUCHINS NOVEMBER 7 Crisis in Israel: What can We Do? Dr. David Luchins has been Chairman of the Political Science Department of Touro College since 1978. He is a graduate of After davening (approx. 11:15am) at Yeshiva College, and earned his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Young Israel of St. Louis Center in 1977. Dr. Luchins teaches courses in American Politics 8101 Delmar Boulevard, University City and International Relations and serves as Founding Dean of Touro’s Lander College for Women.

Dr. Luchins served on the staff of United States Senator Daniel MOTZEI SHABBAT, Patrick Moynihan for twenty years as special assistant, senior assistant, and ultimately senior advisor to the senator. Prior to NOVEMBER 7 that, he served on the 1972 presidential campaign staff of Election 2016: What is Good for the Senator and as a National Vice Chairperson of Democrats for Nixon. He is active in Jewish communal life, having ? served as vice-president of the since 1976, and 8:00pm Melaveh Malkah at as a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs since 1984. He also served in the past on Young Israel of St. Louis National Commissions of the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Fund for Justice. Weekend sponsored by Howard & Jackie Oppenheimer in memory of David Luchins spends his summers as a guest instructor at Aish their parents, Eric & Bea HaTorah in Jerusalem and is a frequent speaker at high schools, Oppenheimer, Radine Feldman, and Victor Feldman college campuses, synagogues, and communal groups throughout North America, lecturing on a broad range of political and social issues. His email address is [email protected] or [email protected]. For more information, contact the shul office 314-727-1880 www.YoungIsrael-Stl.org