| נשלח ב-26/8/2005 17:24 |
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א נייע ראש ישיבה אין Hofstra University
 מצורף קובץI am pleased to announce the appointment of Aaron D. Twerski as the next Dean of the Hofstra University School of Law. Professor Twerski, who was selected after an extensive national search, will replace Interim Dean Alan Resnick on July 1, 2005. Professor Twerski, who is currently the Newell DeValpine Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, served as a member of Hofstra's Law School faculty from 1972 until 1986.
Professor Twerski is an ideal choice to lead our excellent law school to even greater stature. He is a nationally and internationally renowned scholar and a revered teacher, who possesses tremendous energy, leadership ability, enthusiasm and integrity. Professor Twerski will bring to this position the unique combination of an in-depth knowledge of our Law School and many of its alumni, as well as the perspectives on legal education that he acquired in teaching at several other distinguished institutions.
Professor Twerski is a prolific scholar of international renown who is the co-reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Torts Third: Products Liability, for which he received the prestigious designation of "R. Ammi Cutter Reporter" for his outstanding performance. He is the author of five books and more than 70 articles in scholarly journals about torts, products liability and conflict of laws. A professor of law at Brooklyn Law School since 1986, he previously taught at our University where he also served as interim dean from 1977-78 and as associate dean from 1975-77. He also taught at Duquesne University School of Law from 1967-71.
Professor Twerski has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Boston University and the University of Michigan. A teaching fellow at Harvard School of Law from 1966-67, he was a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division - Honors Program, 1965-66. He holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Marquette University, where he was the student editor of the Marquette Law Review. In addition, Professor Twerski has an A.B. in Talmudic Law from Beth Medrash Elyon Talmudic Research Institute and attended Ner Israel Rabbinical College.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor fraternity.
I thank Professor Alan Resnick for his dedicated service as interim dean during this academic year. We are fortunate that Dean Resnick has been and continues to be a leading faculty member at our University. I also thank the search committee, chaired by Provost Herman A. Berliner, and comprised of members of the faculty, administration, and trustees. The committee interviewed nine candidates and recommended three impressive finalists. Dean Twerski will report to Provost Herman A. Berliner who reports directly to me.
Please join with me and Provost Berliner in welcoming back Aaron Twerski and wishing him well in his new role as Dean.
http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/law/law_dean_twerski.cfm
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| נשלח ב-1/9/2005 04:43 |
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מצורף קובץThe Chasid Is A Dean
Steve Lipman - Staff Writer
The best advice young Aaron Twerski, a chasidic Jew and scion of 30 generations of rabbis, received came while he was in pharmacy school. A native of Milwaukee, he had finished his days of full-time yeshiva learning, and thought he would have a career in the sciences. ''Aaron, take a picture of yourself 10 years from today and go there,'' a cousin from Israel said one day.
In other words, figure out what you want to do with your life, and do it.
Twerski was not happy with what he saw. ''I pictured myself as doing something very pedestrian.'' He was miserable in pharmacy school, ''a disaster in the laboratory.''
He decided to return to his first professional interest — law. ''It was a career where I would be able to serve people.''
Four decades after he went to law school and embarked on a career that established him as a leading expert in tort law, Rabbi and Doctor Twerski — he prefers the title professor — received another sign of recognition this week. He was installed on Tuesday as dean of the Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, L.I., where he had served as a faculty member for 14 years.
He became, according to the school, the first chasidic Jew to head a major law school in the United States.
''He is a nationally and internationally renowned scholar and a revered teacher who possesses tremendous energy, leadership ability, enthusiasm and integrity,'' said Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz.
''I was chosen not because I am a chasidic Jew but because I had a career that was suitable for the task,'' Rabbi Twerski told The Jewish Week. His appointment, at 66, symbolizes ''that the time for discrimination against chasidic Jews because of what they look like will start coming to an end.''
Rabbi Twerski, with a chasidic man's standard beard and long black coat, had encountered discrimination, he said. ''It was very much an issue.
''I had great difficulty being hired at the beginning of my career,'' Rabbi Twerski said. In 1966 he served as a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School. ''I was told that I was the star teaching fellow of that year.'' Then time for job offers arrived. ''I got no offers.''
A law school administrator called his student in for a talk. ''You're not going to get a teaching job,'' the administrator said — no one would hire an obviously chasidic Jew as a law teacher.
Another time, he said, ''I was told directly, 'Do you have to be so religious?' ''
''I remember coming home and crying,'' Rabbi Twerski said.
At the ''last minute,'' he received an offer from Duquesne University, a Catholic institution in Pittsburgh where he spent four years. ''It's not surprising,'' he said. ''They took religion seriously.''
From there he went to Hofstra, then Brooklyn Law School, then back to Hofstra this year, recruited by the university.
''My first answer was 'no,' '' he said. ''I was teaching and writing and being published in some of the very best journals.'' That, in addition to serving as a communal leader in Borough Park's chasidic community and a de facto community spokesman.
Why did he change his mind?
''My wife still wants to know the answer to that,'' he said. His answer: ''The challenge and an opportunity to put my vision on the law school.''
Being law school dean means longer working days, often commuting to work in a car service and doing his day's Torah learning en route. ''It's a strain,'' he conceded.
At the Hofstra convocation this week where he was inaugurated, Rabbi Twerski wore his long black coat, his standard garb, under his academic robe. People saw, he said, ''the way chasidim dress.''
Rabbi Twerski asks prospective faculty members the question that changed his life some 40 years ago — how do they picture themselves in a decade?
Someone asked the rabbi, on the eve of his inauguration, to answer the question himself again.
His answer this time was more optimistic.
''I hope I can build a law school,'' he said. ''I hope God will give me good health. I hope I have time to learn Torah in depth and have time to serve my community and enjoy my family.'' n
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| נשלח ב-31/8/2005 00:23 |
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ער האט גאר א חשובער שטוב, קינדער אין איידעמער תלמידי חכמים.
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 23:34 |
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היינט איז TOURO COLLEGE פול מיט סאטמארע אינגעלייט וועלכע שטודירען, רח"ל!
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 23:20 |
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הרב חסיד מונה לדיקן פקולטה למשפטים בארה"ב
יום שלישי, 30 באוגוסט 2005, 19:43 מאת: הארץ
הרב אהרון טוורסקי. "חושב שאהבתי לדיני נזיקין מקורה ברקע התלמודיסטי שלי" (צילום: אוניברסיטת הופסטרה)הרב אהרון טברסקי הוא צאצא לשושלת ארוכה של אדמ"ורים. היום הוא מנה לדיקן באוניברסיטה בה הוא מלמד שנים רבות
רב-חסיד ראשון הוכתר היום כדיקן בית הספר למשפטים של אוניברסיטה בארה"ב. אהרן טברסקי, צאצא למשפחת אדמ"ורים ורבנים ידועה שאילן היוחסין שלה כולל 30 דורות של רבנים, מונה היום לתפקיד באוניברסיטת הופסטרה בניו יורק.
בניגוד לאבותיו ואבות-אבותיו שהקפידו תמיד להמשיך את שושלת יוחסין הרבנית של המשפחה, אהרן טברסקי רשם תקדים בתולדות משפחתו. במקום כהונה רבנית העדיף טברסקי קריירה משפטית. גם הוא השלים לימודים תורניים והוסמך לרבנות, אבל שלא כקרובי משפחתו הרבנים - טברסקי החליט לא להשתמש ברבנות ופנה ללמוד משפטים. בשנת 1965 סיים את לימודיו באוניברסיטת הופסטרה בניו יורק והיום רשם תקדים נוסף. בטקס רב משתתפים הוכתר הרב בעל החזות החסידית המובהקת כדיקן בית הספר למשפטים של האוניברסיטה הופסטרה שבלונג איילנד, שבה הוא מלמד שנים רבות.
"טברסקי הוא היהודי החסיד הראשון שהגיע לכהונת דיקן למשפטים באוניברסיטה אמריקאית", התמוגג העתון "דיילי ניוז" בדיווחו על ההכנות להכתרת הרב טברסקי. "בטקס ההכתרה צפויים להשתתף שופטים, פוליטיקאים בכירים ומלומדים", דיווח העתון. את הנאום המרכזי נשאה השופטת העליונה של מדינת ניו יורק, יהודית קיי.
פרסומתטברסקי, בן 66, שזקן עבות יורד על חזהו וכיפה שחורה גדולה לראשו, נחשב בארה"ב כמומחה ייחודי ובר סמכא בחוקי נזיקין. במשך 40 שנות כהונתו כפרופסור ומרצה למשפט בהופסטרה, חיבר טברסקי חמישה ספרי חוק ופירסם 60 מסות ומאמרים בסוגיות נזיקין, שהפכו ספרי הדרכה מקובלים בבתי משפט ברחבי ארה"ב.
"תמיד גיליתי עניין מיוחד בדיני נזיקין", סיפר טברסקי בראיון עיתונאי. "אני חושב שאהבתי לדיני נזיקין מקורה ברקע התלמודיסטי שלי", הוסיף. "לתלמוד וליהדות השפעה מתמשכת על הקריירה המשפטית שלי ועל חיי האישיים", אמר. עם זאת סיפר כי, כאשר ניסה לראשונה לקבל משרת הוראה נתקל בגילויי אפליה. "נאמר לי בזמנו באופן ישיר ובוטה כי איני יכול לקבל את המשרה בגין החזות החיצונית שלי".
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 18:10 |
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מיט די סי. פי. עי.'ס איז די מעשה אנדערש, ווייל אמאל האט מען זיך געקענט לערנען פון אינדערהיים. עס האט געהייסן "קאראספאנדענס פראגרעם".
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 18:04 |
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aatozz
עפעס אן ענליך מעשה איז יא אמת
דער ייטב לב האט געזאגט אז צוויי פרומע לויערס האבען אפ-גע'שמד גאנץ סיגוט.
אין אמעריקה איז גאר אנאנדערע מצב ... ווי האבען די אלע סאטמארע CPA ACOUNTENTS שטודירט? נישט אין א קאלעדש?
איך קען א CPA אין ווילי אין ער איז גאר א חשוב"ער תלמיד חכם אין א חסיד במלא מובן המילה.
ר' אהרן טווערסקי קען איך, ער איז א בר אורין ובר אבהן א תלמיד חכם און א ירא שמים.
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 09:48 |
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itzik you story with the satmarer rebbe isn't true.
we should all follow his footsteps. amen.
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 07:43 |
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Does that mean no olam habah for the rabbi - psychiatrist?
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| נשלח ב-30/8/2005 00:44 |
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i agree personally, (I'm a college grad myself) - but i heard a maaseh that the Satmar Ruv, zy"a told the brother Rav Abraham J Twersky that he would promise him olam haba if he would only take off the chassidishe levush - because he was scared that other chassidishe yidden would follow suit to university etc
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| נשלח ב-29/8/2005 20:10 |
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I think it is very good. Just my personal opinion. I don't see any reason why chasidishe yiden should refrain from becoming proffesors or deans for that matter.
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| נשלח ב-29/8/2005 18:27 |
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I have none, I'm just asking
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| נשלח ב-29/8/2005 17:49 |
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Why are you skeptical? Explain your reservations.
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| נשלח ב-29/8/2005 17:32 |
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is it good for the Jews?
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| נשלח ב-28/8/2005 16:05 |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/341148p-291328c.html
Hofstra's new dean - & 'rabbi'
BY LISA MUÑOZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
For 30 prestigious generations, the men in Aaron Twerski's family became rabbis. But for his career, he chose the law.
But taking the literal sense of the word "rabbi" - it means teacher - he became a rabbi after all.
Since earning his law degree in 1965, Twerski has taught at Hofstra University School of Law and other law schools, including Harvard, Cornell and the University of Michigan.
On Tuesday, Twerski, 66, will officially become the new dean of Hofstra University School of Law, making him the first Hasidic Jew to be dean of an American law school.
"When I tried to get into the teaching profession, I faced pretty substantial discrimination," he said. "I was told quite directly that it was because of the way that I was dressed."
Judges, politicians, scholars and colleagues are expected to attend the convocation, which will include a keynote address by state Chief Judge Judith Kaye.
Twerski's goals for the law school include expanding programs in business litigation, family law and international law.
When Twerski began his career, lawmakers were just beginning to write some of today's seminal consumer protection laws. He is credited with helping to shape the legal landscape of product liability law.
Over his 40-year legal career, Twerski has become a national expert in tort law. His extensive writing about the topic include 60 law review articles, five books and a tome he co-wrote that has become the de facto guide used by courts and judges in product liability lawsuits.
"I've always had a love for tort law that may have been spurred by my background in Talmudic law," he said. "It's something that all of us come into contact on a daily basis.
"We've all had some issue of personal injury," he said.
Twerski said that how the legal system changes medical malpractice, bankruptcy, product liability and civil rights laws in coming years "will be the test of the humanity of our society."
A descendant of two influential rabbinical lines, Twerski also is ordained as a rabbi. He is the first man not to become a practicing rabbi and the first lawyer in his family.
An older, now deceased brother and Twerski's twin became rabbis, but younger brothers followed his nonconformity, choosing accounting and psychiatry.
Still, Twerski, who has children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with his wife of 45 years, Kreindel, said his religious and Talmudic background is an ongoing influence on his legal career and his personal life.
Twerski also has become another kind of rabbi, acting as the unofficial ombudsman for his Borough Park Hasidic community. On a typical night, Twerksi counsels people at his home until 1 a.m. on everything from rental disputes to hospital billing errors to family legal issues.
"My friends joke about that, saying, 'You started off as a law professor and ended up as a rabbi,'" he said.
Despite his new post, Twerski will still spend time in the classroom, teaching one course a year. He'll also be busy with his commitments outside work, which include spots on the boards of Maimonides Hospital, Agudas Israel - which represents the interests of the U.S. Hasidic community - and Mishkon.
"I have a sign on my desk that says no," he said, "but it faces the other direction and it doesn't seem to do any good."
Originally published on August 28, 2005
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| נשלח ב-26/8/2005 20:41 |
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Dean and Professor of Law
A.B., Beth Medrash Elyon Talmudic Research Institute
B.S., University of Wisconsin
J.D., Marquette University School of Law
Dean Twerski is a preeminent authority in the areas of products liability and tort law. He was co-reporter for the American Law Institute?s Restatement of the Law (Third) Torts: Products Liability, published in 1998. For his distinguished performance as a reporter, the ALI named him the R. Ammi Cutter Reporter. He is a prolific scholar, having published dozens of law review articles on torts and products liability law. Among his recent articles are those published in the Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal. He is also the author of the leading textbook, Products Liability: Problems and Process (4th ed. 2000) (with J. Henderson, Jr.). His expertise has been widely called upon by state and federal legislative bodies considering product liability and mass tort legislation, and he is a frequent lecturer to the practicing bar.
After serving as interim dean at Hofstra University School of Law, where he taught for many years, Dean Twerski taught at Brooklyn Law School as a distinguished professor. He also taught at Duquesne University School of Law and was a visiting professor at Cornell, Boston University, and the University of Michigan law schools. His background also includes a teaching fellowship at Harvard Law School, and work as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in its Civil Rights Division.
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