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Thane Rosenbaum (born 1960) is an Americannovelist andessayist. He is the director of the Forum on Life, Culture, & Society,[1] hosted byTouro College. Rosenbaum is also the Legal Analyst forCBS News Radio and appears frequently on cable television news programs.
Rosenbaum was born in New York City, inWashington Heights, and grew up inMiami Beach, Florida, where his parents moved when he was nine years old. He is a child ofHolocaust survivors. His mother had been inMajdanek concentration camp, his father in variousconcentration camps, includingAuschwitz concentration camp. Their experiences in theNazi death camps were not discussed within the household, but the subject has shaped Rosenbaum's career and writing.[2]
Rosenbaum graduated in 1981, from theUniversity of Florida where he was class valedictorian and the Florida nominee for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. In 1983, he earned an MPA from Columbia University's School of Public Policy and Administration. In 1986 he earned his J.D. from theUniversity of Miami School of Law, where he was a Harvey T. Reid Scholar and served as Editor-in-Chief of theUniversity of Miami Law Review.[3]
Immediately after law school, he clerked for theEugene P. Spellman,United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He then was an associate in the litigation department atDebevoise & Plimpton, where he also coordinated the firm'spro bono cases.
Rosenbaum taught atFordham Law School from 1992 to 2014, teaching human rights, legal humanities, and law and literature. In Spring 2005, he was a visiting professor at theBenjamin N. Cardozo School of Law atYeshiva University, where he has been a frequent speaker, including at the annual Yom HaShoah Lecture hosted jointly by the American Society forYad Vashem and Cardozo's Program in Holocaust & Human Rights Studies on “Remember How the Law Went Horribly Wrong”; the 60th anniversary of theNuremberg Trials on "A Reappraisal and Their Legacy";[4] and as the Uri & Caroline Bauer Distinguished Lecturer on Rosenbaum's book, “The Myth of Moral Justice."
As a cultural commentator, Rosenbaum has been invited to speak at universities and other venues around the world, including theYale University International Human Rights Symposium,[5]Princeton University,[6] the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies,[7] the Goethe-Institut in New York,[8] and theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.[9] He has served as an advisor, writer, co-producer, and commentator on several documentary films, including “Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust," produced and directed by Daniel Anker, “Forgiveness,” directed by Helen Whitney forPBS, and “Sidney Lumet, A Moral Lens,” a PBS American Masters film.
Under Rosenbaum's leadership, the Forum on Life, Culture, & Society (FOLCS), Rosenbaum has hosted a wide range of notable guests, includingBill Clinton,[10]Elie Wiesel,[11] andMario Cuomo.
Rosenbaum moderates "The Talk Show With Thane Rosenbaum" at 92Y, where he has interviewed authors, musicians, directors, screenwriters, poets, politicians, and other public figures, includingJeb Bush,[12] AmbassadorMichael Oren,Eric Cantor,[13]Debbie Wasserman Schultz,[14] andLawrence Summers.[15] The92nd Street Y hosts "The Talk Show with Thane Rosenbaum," an annual series of discussions on arts, culture, and politics. As the moderator of the Trials & Error series at 92Y,[16] his panelists revisit high-profile court cases for a behind-the-scenes look at the legal strategies and foibles with lawyers, journalists, and the parties to the action or their family members and close associates.
In 2014, Rosenbaum was criticized by some commentators for an article in theWall Street Journal where critics believe that he justified Israel's killing of Palestinian children whose parents are loyal toHamas.[17][18][19]
In January 2019,Martin Lewis and his family leftSaatchi Shul in London over Rosenbaum's 'polemical'Shabbat speech.[20]
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