JCC to host broadcast of Elie Wiesel lecture

The leader of Amazon.com and a noted lawyer also will speak.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Holocaust survivor and 1968 Nobel Peace Prize recipient professor Elie Wiesel will deliver the first of three lectures sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown at 8 p.m. Thursday.
The lecture series will mark the 350th anniversary of 23 Brazilian Jews' arriving by ship in New Amsterdam to establish new lives and a new community in this country. The lectures, which are open to the public, will be broadcast live, via satellite, from New York City's 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association.
Wiesel is the author of more than 40 works of fiction and nonfiction and is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and university professor at Boston University. He will discuss his vision for the future of American Jewry.
Amazon.com founder
At 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, the JCC will broadcast "Jeff Bezos in Conversation with Chris Anderson." Bezos founded and continues to lead Amazon.com, one of the first and most successful Internet-based companies.
He will discuss how he created a culture of innovation and commitment to customer experience and how it is possible to sustain that attribute as a company grows in the midst of a rapidly changing business environment. Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine.
Noted lawyer
"Alan Dershowitz on the Origin of Human Rights -- Interviewed by Jeffrey Toobin" will be featured at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12. One of the pre-eminent legal scholars of our time, Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as well as a litigator, columnist, lecturer, book reviewer, and prolific author. Dershowitz will analyze the questions of "Where do rights come from?" and "What argument is there for allowing the 'rights' of a few people to outweigh the preferences of the majority?" He will posit that rights do not come from God, nature, logic or law alone, but from particular experiences with injustice, and from trial and error. Jeffrey Toobin is a CNN legal analyst and a staff writer with The New Yorker.
Admission to the lectures is $7 for JCC members and $10 for nonmembers. The fees for the full series of the three programs are $19 for members, $28 for nonmembers. Student and senior discounts are available. Tickets may be purchased at the JCC Bursar's office.
For more information, contact JCC Director Jonathan Siegel, (330) 746-3250, Ext. 104.