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RESCHEDULED Men’s Club: Serge Kovaleski

This Men’s Club event will be RESCHEDULED. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Men’s Club Welcomes
Serge Kovaleski
Sunday, February 5 at 11:00 AM

Men’s Club and Women of Emanu-El Members: $25
All Other Temple Members and Guests: $30

An in-person event

The Men’s Club of Temple Emanu-El welcomes New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski for a talk titled “The Subjectivity Of Truth In The Modern Age.” This discussion will cover everything from election denialism to Trump’s attacks on journalists for publishing fact-based reportage to how the media tries to deal with this specific ethos.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Serge Kovaleski received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the College of William & Mary in 1984. Mr. Kovaleski currently serves as an investigative reporter on the National Desk at the New York Times. Most recently he has written on the shootings in Highland Park, and the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Mr. Kovaleski is also the reporter who was publicly mocked by Donald Trump.

Prior to his move to the National Desk, he was a correspondent on the Culture Desk, where he broke numerous stories, including the controversy over Harper Lee’s new book, Prince’s death from a drug overdose, and the issue of art restitution advocate Ronald Lauder regarding the provenance of works of art in a Manhattan museum he co-founded.

During a previous stint on the National Desk, he covered major stories such as the Boston Marathon bombing, the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting, and the complex and conflicting issues of law involved in the legalization of marijuana in states across the country.

Mr. Kovaleski was hired at the Times in July 2006 as an investigative and general assignment reporter on the Metro desk. As a member of the Metro staff, he also did investigative work for the Foreign Desk in the United Kingdom and for the National Desk in Alaska, Texas, and Virginia. Mr. Kovaleski served a seven-month stint on the Sports Desk, as well as reporting and writing from New York, Tennessee, and Florida.

Mr. Kovaleski was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in the category of breaking news as part of the Metro team that covered the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. In 2018, he was a Pulitzer finalist, along with other members of the paper’s national staff, in the category of Breaking News for coverage of the Las Vegas massacre, the worst mass shooting in American history. Mr. Kovaleski was also a 2008 Pulitzer finalist in Breaking News for the Metro Desk’s coverage of a Bronx fire that killed eight children and one adult, making it one of the deadliest residential fires in New York’s history. Mr. Kovaleski was one of the New York Times journalists awarded the 2015 Polk Award for Military Reporting for their investigation into U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six.