Eddie Tabash

Edward Tabash
Eddie Tabash at CFI 2013
Residence	Malibu, California, USA
Alma mater	magna cum laude from UCLA in 1973, law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1976.
Website	http://www.tabash.com/
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Edward Tabash is an American lawyer and political and social activist. He is an atheist and a proponent of the Establishment Clause. He chairs the Board of Directors for the Center for Inquiry. Tabash has represented the atheist position in debates against several world-renowned religious philosophers and apologists, including William Lane Craig,Peter van Inwagen,J.P. Moreland, Greg Bahnsen and Richard Swinburne.

Tabash graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 1973 and obtained a law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1976. His father was an orthodox rabbi from Lithuania and his mother was an Auschwitz survivor from Hungary.

Tabash told D.J. Grothe in a 2007 interview when asked if he could sympathize with people's search for God, Tabash states, "I was a new age spiritual seeker for 25 years... I'm sympathetic with the yearning for some kind of immortality... But that does not mean it's true, and it doesn't mean that God beliefs are harmless." He remembers the stories his rabbi father used to tell at Passover about the miracles God performed in order to get Pharaoh to allow the Jews their freedom. In turn, his mother told him Auschwitz stories, and Tabash even as a boy could not understand why God would perform astounding miracles to rescue their people from a lesser tyrant, but be unwilling to perform miracles to rescue them from a far more murderous tyrant.

Tabash is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. He also chairs the First Amendment Task Force for the Council for Secular Humanism. Tabash has written amicus briefs urging the separation of church and state, in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and the California State Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal. Tabash works in the Los Angeles area.