FASPE Announces Its 2018 Awards for Ethical Leadership Honoring Imam Adeel Zeb as Distinguished Fellow, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Holocaust Resistance Leader Emanuel Ringelblum

NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) will present the 2018 Awards for Ethical Leadership on March 5 in New York City. This year's honorees are Imam Adeel Zeb, who is being named Distinguished Fellow, the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and, posthumously, Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat Group.

In recognition of the contributions that FASPE's Fellows have gone on to make to their professions in the area of ethics, FASPE is for the first time presenting a Distinguished Fellow Award. Imam Adeel Zeb, a Muslim chaplain, interfaith scholar and TEDx speaker, who was a FASPE Seminary Fellow in 2013, is the first FASPE fellow to be honored with this award.

"Zeb is being recognized for his commitment to the ethical role that clergy must perform within their religious communities and within the larger religious and civic spheres," said David Goldman, Founder and Chair of FASPE, which runs innovative fellowship programs that challenge graduate students and early-career professionals in business, journalism, law, medicine and religion to confront their ethical responsibilities by analyzing the decisions and actions of Nazi-era professionals. "Zeb has established himself as an important voice within the entire arena of university chaplaincies, including as an active proponent of inter-faith dialogue, mutual respect and freedom of expression," added Goldman.

Zeb currently serves as Co-University Chaplain at the Claremont Colleges in Los Angeles, CA, and in 2017, he became the first Muslim and first South-Asian to be elected President of the National Association of College and University Chaplains. A frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, Zeb has been featured in The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, and on CNN and NPR. He has spoken on Capitol Hill, at the U.S. Department of State, at President Obama's Interfaith Summit and at numerous faith-based centers, globally. He was recently nominated by the El-Hibri Foundation for its annual Peace Award.

"FASPE was instrumental in my journey of profound ethical exploration. I learned how to think critically regarding the ethical deficiencies in our locality, nation and the world," said Zeb, "As a Muslim chaplain, the quest for social equality is intrinsic to my belief, and FASPE nurtured my soul and elevated my morality in line with my tradition and interfaith intersections."

As in previous years, FASPE is also presenting Awards for Ethical Leadership to a Corporate Honoree and a Posthumous Honoree. This year's Corporate Honoree is Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Cravath has been known as one of the premier U.S. law firms for nearly two centuries. FASPE recognizes Cravath for its unwavering responsibility and dedication to excellence, client service and the community.

This year's Posthumous Honoree is Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat Group. A Polish-Jewish historian, teacher and social activist, Ringelblum was interned in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. There, he formed a clandestine research team known as the Oneg Shabbat Group, which collected thousands of documents, diaries and other materials, to form an underground archive of the Ghetto. Shortly before the liquidation of the Ghetto, Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat group buried the materials they had gathered and Ringelblum went into hiding. In 1944, Ringelblum was arrested and executed. The materials buried by the Oneg Shabbat Group were recovered after the war and are today housed at The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, in an archive named in Ringelblum's memory. FASPE recognizes Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat Group posthumously for their courage and prescience as the true ethical documentarians of their time.

FASPE provides a unique historical lens to study contemporary ethics in the professions. Currently entering its ninth year of operations, FASPE's Business, Journalism, Law, Medical and Seminary programs engage graduate students and early-career professionals in an intensive two-week study trip to Germany and Poland, where they explore contemporary ethical issues in their respective fields by first studying their professional counterparts in Europe during the period of 1933-1945. FASPE selects approximately 65 Fellows each year for its five programs through a competitive application process. It currently has nearly 450 alumni fellows, many of whom are emerging as leaders in their fields.

FASPE will present its 2018 Awards for Ethical Leadership on March 5, 2018 at its annual Gala in New York City. The event will take place at Espace, located at 635 West 42^nd Street.

Visit http://www.faspe-ethics.org/2018gala to learn more about the 2018 Awards for Ethical Leadership. To learn more about FASPE, visit http://www.faspe-ethics.org/.

FASPE is a New York non-profit corporation with tax qualification as a 501(c)(3) entity.

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