A former Culinary Institute of America student was sentenced Tuesday to three years in state prison for raping a schoolmate at a party in St Napa County Superior Court Judge Mark Boessenecker sentenced Steven Braslaw to state prison rejecting the defense’s arguments for a lesser sentence because of Braslaw’s lack of criminal record and other mitigating factors was celebrating her 19th birthday with Braslaw and other classmates at a house Braslaw and other students shared in St became intoxicated after drinking and fell ill She fell asleep and woke up to find Braslaw on top of her who has been in the Napa County jail since Jan sobbed as he addressed the court while standing by his attorney “I know (Jane Doe) wants me to suffer and I will for the rest of my life,” Braslaw said as relatives Deputy District Attorney Allison Haley read her statement and letters from her parents the victim said she withdrew from the Culinary School of America after the assault four months before she was expected to graduate from the two-year program Jane Doe said she often has nightmares and suffers from insomnia She was unemployed for two months after she moved to Las Vegas She resumed her studies in April at a local school but had to make up a year’s worth of classes because many of the credits from the Culinary Institute were not transferable “There is nothing that can make up for what (Braslaw) has done to me or any amount of time that can make up for what this has caused me and my family,” the statement read I want him to suffer more than I already have.” including his client’s lack of criminal record Getz said his client’s family will continue to support him during his incarceration No decision has been made on whether or not an appeal will be filed said she was satisfied with the sentence imposed Tuesday “The defendant wanted to characterize the rape as a mistake or accident This judge rightly recognized that rape doesn’t happen by mistake or by accident,” she said “Rape was the choice made by this defendant and now he will be punished for it.” Braslaw received 156 days’ jail time credit He will have to register as a sex offender after his release the civil suit Jane Doe filed against Braslaw continues in Napa County Superior Court A Napa County jury took only an hour Friday to find a former Culinary Institute of America s… Friends and family of Berryessa's Turtle Rock bar collected the money pined to the ceiling of the cafe to donate to UCSF and celebrate the 15-year 'cancerversary' of Elijah Leung Most of Napa’s River Park Shopping Center tenants cater to locals Now a handful of tenants have left the center The sheriff's office reported seizing 13 roosters from a Carneros site where it said the birds were altered and trained to fight other male birds Take a ride around Napa on these motorized ADA-compliant scooters made to look like various critters and creatures Young denied a bid by Alan Jazeel Martinez to dismiss a second-degree murder charge for the death of 17-year-old Monica Flores after a fentanyl overdose in 2022 Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Arts and Interpretive social science at Duke Kunshan University Home » News » Book Talk with Yitzhak Lewis Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity” Yitzhak Lewis, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University recently published A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity. Please join us on his book talk at the Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time; 6-7pm Barcelona time; Thurs Register for Zoom information More information from the Institute’s website: Nachman of Braslav (1772–1810) has held a place in the Jewish popular imagination for more than two centuries Some see him as the (self-proclaimed) Messiah others as the forerunner of modern Jewish literature Existing studies struggle between these dueling readings largely ignoring questions of aesthetics and politics in his work A Permanent Beginning lays out a new paradigm for understanding R the beginnings of Jewish literary modernity Yitzhak Lewis examines the connections between imperial modernization processes in Eastern Europe at the turn of the eighteenth century and the emergence of “modern literature” in the storytelling of R Reading his tales and teachings alongside the social the book’s guiding question is literary: How does R Nachman represent this changing environment in his writing Lewis paints a nuanced and fascinating portrait of a literary thinker and creative genius at the very moment his world was evolving unrecognizably Nachman’s narrative response to his changing world was a major point of departure for Jewish literary modernity Interview about this book. 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ShareGet SBS News daily and direct to your InboxSign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.Your email address *Morning (Mon–Fri) A Napa County jury took only an hour Friday to find a former Culinary Institute of America student guilty of raping a classmate last January in St. Helena. Steven Braslaw, 43, of Riverside, was immediately remanded into the Napa County jail after the jury of 11 women and one man found him guilty of rape by intoxication following a one-week trail in Napa Superior Court. Braslaw, who faces up to eight years in state prison, had been out on bail since his arrest last January. Prosecutor Allison Haley told the jury that the openly gay victim, known only as Jane Doe, was raped after she became drunk at a party held for her 19th birthday last January. The party was at a house Braslaw rented with other male students on Hollis Lane. At the party, Jane Doe threw up and blacked out, according to court testimony. A former roommate, Melissa Hemphill, testified she and a male housemate of Braslaw’s helped Jane Doe take a shower and that she was shocked when Braslaw walked in, wrapped in a towel. Jane Doe told the jury she found herself in the shower with Braslaw. “I was really confused why he was in there,” she said. Hemphill said she was “fooling around” with one of Braslaw’s housemates in an upstairs bedroom when Jane Doe returned from the shower crying, cold, wet and naked to the second floor. She gave Jane Doe a sweater after leading her to a bed in the same room. Hemphill testified that Braslaw then entered the bedroom and flopped next to Jane Doe. When the male friend Hemphill was with got up to find a condom, they both laughed when Braslaw, a married man with children, asked for one too, she said. Jane Doe, who is now 20, testified Tuesday she remembered waking up to find Braslaw on top of her, penetrating her. Hemphill, who was with the male friend about 6 feet away, said she heard Jane Doe scream, “No, no, no!” before Braslaw left the room. She first thought Braslaw had bumped into Jane Doe, she said. Jane Doe was confused, crying, unable to understand what was going on, according to court testimony. Hemphill, whom prosecutor said was then a naive, 19-year-old woman who trusted Braslaw, told Jane Doe to go back to sleep. A nurse who examined Jane Doe at Queen of the Valley Medical Center the next day said the injuries were consistent with intercourse. Braslaw’s attorney, Brian Getz of San Francisco, argued his client did not rape Jane Doe. “Mr. Braslaw did not do the crime he’s accused of,” he told the jury Friday. While Jane Doe was completely honest in her testimony, “that’s not the same as being correct,” he said. Getz told the jury Jane Doe did not say to her then-fiancee, a police officer in Las Vegas, she had been raped during a 29-minute phone conversation the morning after the party. “We accept as we must the verdict of the Napa County jury,” Getz said Friday afternoon.  “We are preparing for sentencing and will consider our options after that.” Prosecutor Haley said, “I am grateful to this jury who had to listen to days of difficult testimony and make the hard decisions in this case. I am satisfied that they told Mr. Braslaw the truth: he is a rapist.” Judge Mark Boessenecker scheduled sentencing for Feb. 20. A former Culinary Institute of America student was sentenced Tuesday to three years in state prison for raping a schoolmate at a party in St. … Friends and family of Berryessa's Turtle Rock bar collected the money pined to the ceiling of the cafe to donate to UCSF and celebrate the 15-year 'cancerversary' of Elijah Leung. Most of Napa’s River Park Shopping Center tenants cater to locals, not wine country visitors. Now a handful of tenants have left the center, or plan to. What's up at River Park?  The sheriff's office reported seizing 13 roosters from a Carneros site where it said the birds were altered and trained to fight other male birds. Take a ride around Napa on these motorized ADA-compliant scooters made to look like various critters and creatures, courtesy of Napa Valley Rydables. Judge Scott R.L. Young denied a bid by Alan Jazeel Martinez to dismiss a second-degree murder charge for the death of 17-year-old Monica Flores after a fentanyl overdose in 2022. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Receive a daily update, along with our weekly Thursday e-edition. Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in. Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password. 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