Gerald Sorin, the Distinguished Professor of American and Jewish Studies and the director of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life at the State University of New York, New Paltz, was the featured speaker at the Third Annual Rabbi Hillel Cohn Endowed Lecture on the Contemporary Jewish Experience. He presented “Remnants of Jewish Life in Post-Holocaust Europe: A Personal Journey,” over two nights in May, with one at the Palm Desert Campus and the other at the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside. Sorin, who holds degrees from Columbia College, Wayne State University and Columbia University, has taught history at the State University of New York, New Paltz since 1965. He has also taught in the Netherlands at the University of Utrecht’s School of Journalism, and at the University of Nijmegen, where he held the John Adams Distinguished Chair in American Studies as a Fulbright Professor. Sorin is also a published author of several books, and has published numerous essays and reviews on aspects of ethnic identity and acculturation. He is the former chairman of the history department (1986-1996) at SUNY, New Paltz, and continues there, since 1983, as director of the Jewish Studies Program. In 1989 he founded and continues to direct the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute for the Study of Modern Jewish Life. And in 1994 he was awarded the State University of New York’s highest rank – Distinguished University Professor. The Rabbi Hillel Cohn Endowed Lecture on the Contemporary Jewish Experience was established at CSUSB in 2017 in recognition of Rabbi Cohn’s many achievements as a religious and community leader. This is the first time in the history of the entire California State University system that a rabbi has been so honored.