It is no surprise to anyone who has heard Mitchell Silver utter even a single word that he was born in NYC and is a product of its public schools - P.S. 63, J.H.S. 71 and Stuyvesant High School. After receiving his PhD in philosophy from the University of Connecticut, his interest in medical ethics and his desire to have an "on the ground" feel for the issues led him to take nursing courses, and ultimately receive a B.S.N. from the University of Massachusetts. He has published articles in nursing, psychiatric and general health care ethics. He is also the author of Respecting the Wicked Child: A Philosophy of Secular Jewish Identity and Education. As the School Director of the Brookline I.L. Peretz Shule of the Workmen's Circle, he has an opportunity to try and realize the ideas developed in that book. His new book, A Plausible God (Fordham University Press, November 2006), explores the question of whether a God that a modern, rational person can believe in is worth believing in. A frequent lecturer on Middle East politics, Silver lives in Newton with his wife and two children.

mitchell.silver@tufts.edu
mhsilver@rcn.com
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