Distinguished Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, esteemed Professor Emeritus Charles Taylor,

Dr. Professor David Naylor, and to all present at this extraordinary event, good evening.

My name is Larry Krause.

I am deeply honored this evening to introduce this wonderful program on behalf of Toran Motion,

an organization that while based in Toronto is recognized globally in the Jewish world.

Through its conferences, symposia, speaker series, interviews and panel discussions,

Torah on Motion explores with passion and honesty, with relevance and sophistication,

the complex interface between Judaism and the modern world.

Torah on motion derives its name from its dynamic free-flowing approach to the study and

understanding of Torah and has over the past 10 years a mastive

library of 1200 MP3s and reaches over 6,000 people in 31 countries with its programming.

Too often in today's world, dialogue is an exercise in trying to undermine the next person's

point of view instead of hearing

it, or preaching to the already converted rather than learning from another's perspective

and engaging with them. Torah in motion consistently avoids these traps and creates real

and meaningful discourse on the most cutting edge and pressing issues impacting

religion in the contemporary society. I invite you to check them out on the web.

The founders of Torah in Motion, Jake Hellman and Elliot Malamit, together with their spouses,

Elena Kelman and Leah Malamid, are dedicated, innovative

and relentless in their effort to make Torah in motion relevant and substantive in the realm

of Judaism and Torah study.

As the director of a private equity firm who ceded their first program, I can honestly say that I consider Toran

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