Shurat HaDin attorney Rachel Weiser will be featured in two programs on Tuesday, Aug. 15, one at noon at the Chicago Bar Association and one at 8 p.m. at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park (for both attorneys and non-attorneys). Moriah Congregation is co-sponsoring the Beth El program.

Weiser will speak about her work on U.S. anti-terrorism cases, including Sokolow v. PA , when she was part of the trial team that won a $655 million jury verdict in 2015 against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization, on behalf of 33 American terror victims during the second Intifada.

After moving to Israel in 2010 with her husband and five children, Weiser joined Shurat HaDin, where she also runs the organization’s biannual law student internship program and annual lawyer’s seminar. Her oldest child is in a Special Forces unit of the IDF.

To register for the Beth El program, contact Ana Igornov at [email protected] or call (847) 432-8900. For the CBA program, email [email protected] with your name, firm, address and phone number or call (312) 554-2056 to register.

Shurat HaDin is a non-profit Israeli NGO that handles lawsuits on behalf of terrorist victims in US courts and worldwide, against banks, countries, and other terrorism funders http://israellawcenter.org/about/ . SHD has won over $2 billion in judgments, frozen over $600 million in assets and collected over $200 million for terror victims. The Supreme Court recently granted cert in Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, which involves Iranian artifacts at the University of Chicago and the Field Museum.