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3 August 2018

Mazal Tov/Mabrouk to Professor Ephraim Isaac of the Institute of Semitic Studies on delivering the Mayo Clinic’s 2018 Distinguished Lecture – Special Education Grand Rounds on 25 June. Professor Isaac, a Distinguished Member of The American Sephardi Federation’s Board of Directors, is the “founder and first professor of the Department of African-American Studies at Harvard University… was voted the best teacher each year by students… and the department has endowed Harvard’s Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African‐American Studies” in his honor. The lecture addressed “the challenges of establishing and maintaining” the department, his “personal experience… [as] a Black Jew at Harvard University, and in the US in the early 1960s,” and the “undying power of love as the perennial key to a peaceful, amicable, and productive life [for and amongst] people of diverse persuasions.”