Hebrew Association plans satellite broadcasts

YOUNGSTOWN -- The first of three live satellite broadcasts of cultural programs from New York City's 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association will be at 8 p.m. Thursday at Jewish Community Center on Gypsy Lane.
The lecture series coincides with the 350th anniversary of 23 Brazilian Jews who arrived by ship in New Amsterdam to establish new lives and a new community in the United States.
Thursday's lecture will be by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Wiesel is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and University Professor at Boston University. He will share his views on the future of American Jewry.
Jeff Bezos, founder of the Internet-based company Amazon.com, will be interviewed by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7. Bezos will give insight on how to encourage innovation and customer commitment at a growing company and in the midst of a rapidly changing business environment.
& quot;Alan Dershowitz on the Origin of Human Rights - Interviewed by Jeffrey Toobin & quot; will be at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12. Author and columnist Dershowitz, who is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, believes that rights do not come from God, nature, logic, or law alone, but from particular experiences with injustice, and from trial and error. Toobin is a CNN legal analyst and a staff writer with New Yorker magazine.