Please join us for the annual combined New Haven-wide Reform Selichot Gathering. The keynote will be: "Forgiveness and the Science of Revenge”, with James Kimmel, Jr., JD.

James Kimmel, Jr., JD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies, and a researcher, lawyer, and author who focuses on neuroscience, psychology, revenge, addiction, forgiveness, and violence. A breakthrough scholar and expert on revenge and forgiveness, he first identified compulsive revenge seeking as an addiction and first developed the behavioral addiction model of revenge and the brain disease model of revenge addiction as public health approaches for preventing and treating violence. James will discuss the profound neuroscience of forgiveness and its implications.