The Chosen People: Jews in Basketball Symposium
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008 11AM-1PM
Join our distinguished panel as they discuss their passion for the American Jewish experience with basektball. Panelists include*:
Dolph Schayes - One of professional basektball's early superstars. Elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and named to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
Joseph Dorinson, Ph.D - A noted authority in the field of popular culture, Prof. Dorinson, Chairman and Professor of History at L.I.U., Brooklyn campus, whose research specialties span sports history.
Ari Sclar - A Ph.D in history, with an emphasis on the History of Jewish Players in Basketball.
Ed Krinsky - Since 1995, Ed has served as Director of Operations of the USBL. Ed retired as the Westbury Public Schools Director of Guidance in 1992. Ed played basektball and baseball at Harvard University, where he captained the team his senior year.
Ira Berkow, Moderator - A New York Times writer-columnist for 25 years, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for national sports reporting. The only sportswriter featured for five decades (since 1969) in the highly regarded "Best American Sports Writing."
* Panelists are subject to change.
Fees: Suffolk Y Members $5.00
Non-Members $10
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