Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19

Event celebrates Rabbi James Ponet's
25 years of service

The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host a day-long "Festival of Thought," celebrating the first 25 years of Rabbi James E. Ponet's service to the University community.

The celebration on Friday, March 2, will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.

Peter Salovey, dean of Yale College, will introduce the program. The morning session will include talks by Anthony Kronman, the Sterling Professor of Law and former dean of Yale Law School, on "Gratitude and Anti-Semitism"; Peter Berkowitz, professor at George Mason University School of Law, on "Lingering and Listening"; and Robert Burt, the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law at Yale Law School, on "Job, Jim and Me."

The afternoon session will take place at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. It will feature talks by Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum; Steven Smith, the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government at Yale; and Shelly Kagan, the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale, on "Deserving Happiness: Reflections on Virtue and Disappointment"

Ponet is the Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain at Yale, where he has served as a religious leader since 1981. He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1968 with a major in religious studies and his master's and doctoral degrees from Hebrew Union College, where he was ordained in 1973. Ponet lived in Israel from 1974 through 1981, studying Jewish thought at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and serving as a fellow and teacher at both the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Pardes Institute.

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