The 72nd Annual Latke vs Hamantash Debate (2018)

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Channel: The University of Chicago · 2018 · Education

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Presented by the University of Chicago Hillel, the Latke–Hamantash Debate is a humorous academic debate about the merits of two items of Jewish cuisine. The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. 

Participants in the debate, held have included past UChicago president Hanna Holborn Gray, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee, Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Leon M. Lederman, and essayist Allan Bloom.

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