Israeli ethicist to speak Tuesday

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A luncheon workshop featuring Noam Zohar, author, ethicist and professor of philosophy at Bar Ilan University, will be held Tuesday, May 11, 12:50-1:50 p.m. in Everest Lounge, Hale House.

He will speak on “Ethics in Warfare: Israeli and American Perspectives and the Just War Tradition.”

Zohar is director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Bar Ilan and senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He teaches rabbinics, philosophy of halakhah, and moral and political philosophy, with an emphasis on applied ethics, particularly bioethics and ethics of warfare.

He has been a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a faculty fellow at Harvard University's Center for Ethics and its Center for Jewish Studies.

The author of numerous books and essays and co-editor of “The Jewish Political Tradition” series (Yale University Press), Zohar has served on various committees and national commissions, advising on issues of ethics in healthcare. He also has been involved in revising the code of conduct for the Israeli Defense Forces.

Tuesday's event is sponsored by the Michael S. Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative. Those interested in attending should RSVP to Amy Bloom, blooma@union.edu, ext. 8386.