Social Action Shabbat Service & Dinner

Join us for our special Social Action Shabbat focused on the Death Penalty.

We will begin with an early Shabbat service at 6:30 pm, followed by dinner at 7:30 and a presentation by our speaker Ellen Kreitzberg, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University Law School. The informal setting will allow for lots of Q & A and discussion of our topic:

"The question is not whether a defendant deserves to die, but whether we deserve to kill."

We will discuss the legal, ethical, and financial considerations for imposing and carrying out a sentence of death.
We will also take a look at the latest challenges to California’s lethal injection procedure. It has been five years since California has executed anyone. With the state poised to resume executions, what is the outlook for 2011 and beyond.

Professor Kreitzberg created and now organizes and directs the Death Penalty College, a six-day residential training program held each August at Santa Clara University Law School. This program brings in over 65 capital defense counsel from around the country all whom have pending capital cases, and over 20 defense counsel as “faculty” to teach, discuss, and brainstorm their upcoming trials. She serves on the Death Penalty Seminar committee which is responsible for the annual seminar for over 900 capital defenders each February.

In 2009, Professor Kreitzberg prepared a report on the imposition of the death penalty for the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice.

Find out more at the Santa Clara University web page: http://law.scu.edu/dpc/.

Dinner will be catered by Yaissoo Greek Restaurant. The menu will include lemon chicken, salad, rice, falafel balls, babaganush, pita bread, and hummus. $12 each.

Please RSVP for dinner to nadine@shirhadash.org by Wednesday, October 27.