Film Screening: Streit's: 'Matzo and the American Dream'
03/15/2017 02:03:38 PM
Film Screening: Streit's: 'Matzo and the American Dream'
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Please join us on Tuesday, March 28, for a screening of Streit's: 'Matzo and the American Dream'. The film is a story of tradition, of resistance and resilience, and a celebration of the Streits family, whose commitment to their heritage and to their employees is inspiring proof that the family that bakes together, stays together. Rabbi Bellino will introduce the film with a brief presentation entitled "The Nuance of Automation." The director Michael Levine.will be on hand for a post-film discussion.
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
This event has been generously sponsored by Ellen Cherrick in memory of her grandparents, Chaya Liba Cherrick, z’l, & Shlomo Moshe Cherrick, z’l, whose yahrzeits will be observed respectively on the 28th day of Adar and the 5th day of Nisan, and in memory of Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, zt’l.
Classes Tonight!
03/15/2017 12:41:29 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Liturgy, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, March 15.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Liturgy
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews
Weekly Update: Shabbat Tetzaveh (Zakhor) 5777
03/09/2017 10:43:00 PM
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Tonight: Foundations Classes Only / Tomorrow: Shacharit at 6:15 AM
03/08/2017 12:41:37 PM
Tonight, Wednesday, March 8, only Foundations of Hebrew and Foundations of Shabbat will be meeting. The class on Sufi Jews will NOT meet tonight.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
Please note that tomorrow morning, on Ta'anit Esther, Shacharit will start at 6:15 AM.
Consider increasing your commitment to community and synagogue by attending.
You can still join, sorta.
03/06/2017 08:29:21 AM
We are looking forward to tonight's Annual Dinner when we will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service. The Dinner will be held at the Union Square Ballroom (27 Union Square West).
If you are unable to attend, you may still join us in this very important fundraising effort. To do so, please email your pledge or make a payment on the website. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and will lift our spirits.
As always, Rabbi Bellino will celebrate your participation by publicly toasting you. What better incentive is there?
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
TOMORROW NIGHT: The 2017 Annual Dinner
03/05/2017 09:08:23 PM
Dear Friends,
Our Annual Dinner will be held tomorrow night, March 6th, at 6:30 PM, at a NEW location, the Union Square Ballroom. This year we will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service. Rabbi Bellino, along with his wife Cori Robinson, has sustained and revitalized our synagogue as well as the Downtown Jewish Community. He and his family are among our most valuable assets and it is with great pleasure that we will recognize the efforts they have made and the successes we have all shared on their account.
Will you be able to celebrate our accomplishments and help us secure our future? Your support would be directly applied to the strengthening of a rebuilding community and the reinforcement and beautification of its 170 year old building. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and lifts our spirits.
If you cannot attend the dinner, you can still join us in this fundraising initiative. As always, you may mail in payment or pay on the website.
TIME
Cocktails- 6:30 PM
Dinner & Program- 7:30 PM
LOCATION
Union Square Ballroom, 27 Union Square West, between 15th and 16th Streets
(the entrance to the Ballroom is between Starbucks and The Coffee Shop restaurant).
DIRECTIONS
By Subway: Take the N, R , L, 4, 5, or 6 to Union Square.
By Car: Take the FDR or West Side Highway to 14th Street; follow 14th Street to Union Square.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
Weekly Update: Shabbat Terumah 5777
03/02/2017 08:06:21 PM
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Please Join Us
02/28/2017 09:42:53 AM
Our Annual Dinner will be held this coming Monday on March 6th and will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service to the downtown Jewish community. Rabbi Bellino, along with his wife Cori Robinson, has sustained and revitalized our synagogue as well as the Downtown Jewish Community. He and his family are among our most valuable assets and it is with great pleasure that we will recognize the efforts they have made and the successes we have all shared on their account.
Will you be able to celebrate our accomplishments and help us secure our future? Your support would be directly applied to the strengthening of a rebuilding community and the reinforcement and beautification of its 170 year old building. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and lifts our spirits.
Please RSVP here (To see photos from last year's Dinner, click here).
If you cannot attend, we ask that you please join us in this fundraising initiative.
As always, you may mail in payment or pay on the website.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
Please RSVP to our Annual Dinner!!
02/24/2017 10:46:49 AM
Dear Friends,
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue continues to flourish. Together, we have enjoyed meaningful and efficient services, serious and thoughtful learning (at all levels), fascinating speakers, well attended shabbatons, delicious kiddushes, and festive celebrations. We are indeed a center of downtown religious life.
Our Annual Dinner will be held on March 6th, 2017. This year we will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service. Rabbi Bellino, along with his wife Cori Robinson, has sustained and revitalized our synagogue as well as the Downtown Jewish Community. He and his family are among our most valuable assets and it is with great pleasure that we will recognize the efforts they have made and the successes we have all shared on their account.
Will you be able to celebrate our accomplishments and help us secure our future? Your support would be directly applied to the strengthening of a rebuilding community and the reinforcement and beautification of its 170 year old building. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and lifts our spirits.
Please RSVP here (To see photos from last year's Dinner, click here).
If you cannot attend, we ask that you please join us in this fundraising initiative.
As always, you may mail in payment or pay on the website.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
Weekly Update: Shabbat Mishpatim/Shekalim 5777
02/23/2017 08:07:20 PM
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TOMORROW NIGHT! Tuesday Evening Lecture Series with Dr. Samuel Fleischacker
02/20/2017 06:02:51 PM
Does It Matter Who Wrote The Torah?
What Would Maimonides Say?
A Talk by Dr. Samuel Fleischacker
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, February 21st, at 7:00 PM, our own Dr. Samuel Fleischacker will talk with us about Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith - Divine Authorship of the Torah.
Famously, Maimonides says in his Commentary on the Mishnah and his Mishneh Torah that Moses wrote every word of the Torah at the dictation of God. But Maimonides also says that God can't talk, and that anyone who thinks God can talk is an idolater. So what exactly does Maimonides mean by describing Moses as a scribe who wrote down God's words?
Please join us as Dr. Fleischacker presents a philosophical approach to the proper understanding of Maimonides' views on the nature of revelation - empowering us to stand, once again, with Moses on Sinai.
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Dr. Fleischacker
Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and currently a Berggruen Fellow at NYU. He studied at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. He works in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Among the issues that have particularly interested him are the moral status of culture, the nature and history of liberalism, and the relationship between moral and other values (aesthetic values, religious values, political values). His publications include The Ethics of Culture (Cornell, 1994), A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith (Princeton, 1999), On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton, 2003), A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004), Divine Teaching and the Way of the World (Oxford, 2011), What Is Enlightenment? (Routledge, 2012), and The Good and the Good Book (Oxford, 2015). Professor Fleischacker has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He taught previously at Williams College.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Yitro 5777
02/16/2017 10:01:36 PM
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IN ONE WEEK: Tuesday Evening Lecture Series with Dr. Samuel Fleischacker (Feb. 21)
02/14/2017 05:45:51 PM
Does It Matter Who Wrote The Torah?
What Would Maimonides Say?
A Talk by Dr. Samuel Fleischacker
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
In one week, on Tuesday, February 21st, at 7:00 PM, our own Dr. Samuel Fleischacker will talk with us about Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith - Divine Authorship of the Torah.
Famously, Maimonides says in his Commentary on the Mishnah and his Mishneh Torah that Moses wrote every word of the Torah at the dictation of God. But Maimonides also says that God can't talk, and that anyone who thinks God can talk is an idolater. So what exactly does Maimonides mean by describing Moses as a scribe who wrote down God's words?
Please join us as Dr. Fleischacker presents a philosophical approach to the proper understanding of Maimonides' views on the nature of revelation - empowering us to stand, once again, with Moses on Sinai.
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Dr. Fleischacker
Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and currently a Berggruen Fellow at NYU. He studied at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. He works in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Among the issues that have particularly interested him are the moral status of culture, the nature and history of liberalism, and the relationship between moral and other values (aesthetic values, religious values, political values). His publications include The Ethics of Culture (Cornell, 1994), A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith (Princeton, 1999), On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton, 2003), A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004), Divine Teaching and the Way of the World (Oxford, 2011), What Is Enlightenment? (Routledge, 2012), and The Good and the Good Book (Oxford, 2015). Professor Fleischacker has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He taught previously at Williams College.
2017 Annual Dinner
02/13/2017 07:39:52 PM
Dear Friends,
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue continues to flourish. Together, we have enjoyed meaningful and efficient services, serious and thoughtful learning (at all levels), fascinating speakers, well attended shabbatons, delicious kiddushes, and festive celebrations. We are indeed a center of downtown religious life.
Our Annual Dinner will be held on March 6th, 2017. This year we will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service. Rabbi Bellino, along with his wife Cori Robinson, has sustained and revitalized our synagogue as well as the Downtown Jewish Community. He and his family are among our most valuable assets and it is with great pleasure that we will recognize the efforts they have made and the successes we have all shared on their account.
Will you be able to celebrate our accomplishments and help us secure our future? Your support would be directly applied to the strengthening of a rebuilding community and the reinforcement and beautification of its 170 year old building. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and lifts our spirits.
Please RSVP here (To see photos from last year's Dinner, click here).
If you cannot attend, we ask that you please join us in this fundraising initiative.
As always, you may mail in payment or pay on the website.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
Weekly Update: Shabbat Beshalach (Shira) (Tu b'Shevat) 5777
02/09/2017 08:29:44 PM
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IN TWO WEEKS: Tuesday Evening Lecture Series with Dr. Samuel Fleischacker (Feb. 21)
02/07/2017 07:41:54 PM
Does It Matter Who Wrote The Torah?
What Would Maimonides Say?
A Talk by Dr. Samuel Fleischacker
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
On Tuesday, February 21, at 7:00 PM, our own Dr. Samuel Fleischacker will talk with us about Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith - Divine Authorship of the Torah.
Famously, Maimonides says in his Commentary on the Mishnah and his Mishneh Torah that Moses wrote every word of the Torah at the dictation of God. But Maimonides also says that God can't talk, and that anyone who thinks God can talk is an idolater. So what exactly does Maimonides mean by describing Moses as a scribe who wrote down God's words?
Please join us as Dr. Fleischacker presents a philosophical approach to the proper understanding of Maimonides' views on the nature of revelation - empowering us to stand, once again, with Moses on Sinai.
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Dr. Fleischacker
Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and currently a Berggruen Fellow at NYU. He studied at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. He works in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Among the issues that have particularly interested him are the moral status of culture, the nature and history of liberalism, and the relationship between moral and other values (aesthetic values, religious values, political values). His publications include The Ethics of Culture (Cornell, 1994), A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith (Princeton, 1999), On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton, 2003), A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004), Divine Teaching and the Way of the World (Oxford, 2011), What Is Enlightenment? (Routledge, 2012), and The Good and the Good Book (Oxford, 2015). Professor Fleischacker has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. He taught previously at Williams College.
LAST CALL to RSVP!! Community Dinner with Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Shai Secunda
02/07/2017 11:52:00 AM
This Shabbat, Parashat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College and author of 'The Iranian Talmud'.
Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner. You'll enjoy a delicious dinner, time spent with friends old and new, and an opportunity to sample delicious, high-quality wines.
And join us as well over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below).
Reservations for the dinner should be made by today, Tuesday, February 7th!
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
CholentFest Resuts
02/06/2017 08:41:49 PM
Congratulations to the winners of CholentFest IV!
Eydel Ladle Trophy:
Texas Hold 'Em Cholent by Ellen Neuborne and Leslie Landis
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card
People’s Choice Award:
Crocky IV by Choni Bellino
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card
Runner Up People’s Choice Award:
Honey, Spice, and Everything Fleish by David Neuhaus
Best Decoration:
Seven Species by Fern Penn
Prize: $50 kitchen supplies gift card
Best Innovative Cholent:
Apple Bottom Crock; Boots with Da Fur by Cori "Cho Rida" Robinson & Keshet "Shawty" Bellino
We are grateful to everyone who made the event possible!
- Rabbi Gavriel Bellino for his creativity and love of labor in producing the event.
- Eli Szus for sponsoring prizes and supplies, producing the event and bedazzling the new trophy.
- All the chefs who shared their delicious and innovative cholents with us and decorated their tables.
Crocky IV by Choni Bellino
Sausage Party by Gavriel Bellino and Starring NY Brat Factory
Canadian Bacon Chulent by Aliyah & Michael Gluckstadt
North African Cholent by Maurice Goldstein & Marc Zegen
Mexican Vegetarian Chili by Phyllis Liberman
Ex-Tremé by Harris Marks
Texas Hold 'Em Cholent by Ellen Neuborne & Leslie Landis
Honey, Spice, and Everything Fleish by David Neuhaus
Seven Species by Fern Penn
Apple Bottom Crock; Boots wit da Fur by Cori "Cho Rida" Robinson
& Ke$het “Sho’ty” Bellino
Gluten Free Surprise by Chaim Shechtman
Chimney by Eli Szus
Experimental Cholent IV by David Waxman - Our tasting judges: Joseph Bedros, Avi Beluca, Dr. Laura Van Metre Baum
- Our artistic judges: Meredith Spector and Ariel Matityahu
- Tali Zilberman and Henry Frank for handing out tickets.
- Dr. Leora Walter for engraving the new trophy.
- Sarah Kamaras for helping with the setup.
- The more than 150 cholent tasters/afficionados.
To see photos from before this event, click here.
THIS SHABBAT!! Community Dinner with Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Shai Secunda
02/05/2017 08:05:51 PM
This Shabbat, Parashat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College and author of 'The Iranian Talmud'.
Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner. And join us as well over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below).
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Bo 5777
02/02/2017 10:28:52 PM
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2017 Annual Dinner
02/02/2017 02:45:33 PM
Dear Friends,
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue continues to flourish. Together, we have enjoyed meaningful and efficient services, serious and thoughtful learning (at all levels), fascinating speakers, well attended shabbatons, delicious kiddushes, and festive celebrations. We are indeed a center of downtown religious life.
Our Annual Dinner will be held on March 6th, 2017. This year we will honor our Rabbi, Gavriel Bellino, and celebrate his ten years of service. Rabbi Bellino, along with his wife Cori Robinson, has sustained and revitalized our synagogue as well as the Downtown Jewish Community. He and his family are among our most valuable assets and it is with great pleasure that we will recognize the efforts they have made and the successes we have all shared on their account.
Will you be able to celebrate our accomplishments and help us secure our future? Your support would be directly applied to the strengthening of a rebuilding community and the reinforcement and beautification of its 170 year old building. We remind you that any amount helps our efforts and lifts our spirits.
Please RSVP here. (To see photos from last year's Dinner, click here.
If you cannot attend, we ask that you please join us in this fundraising initiative.
As always, you may mail in payment or pay on the website.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
2017 Dinner Committee
Kristina & Daniel Gerschel, Vivian Klaus, Joan Nachmani, Alan Schwartz
NEXT SHABBAT! Community Dinner with Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Shai Secunda
02/01/2017 03:29:33 PM
In only one week, on Shabbat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College and author of 'The Iranian Talmud'.
Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner. And join us as well over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below).
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
Classes Tonight!
02/01/2017 01:01:27 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Shabbat, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, February 1.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Vaera 5777
01/26/2017 09:25:06 PM
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IN 2 WEEKS! Shabbat/Tu B'Shevat Scholar-in-Residence - Dr. Shai Secunda
01/26/2017 12:03:31 PM
In only two weeks, on Shabbat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College.
Please join us over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Department of Religion. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
IN 3 WEEKS: Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence - Dr. Shai Secunda
01/20/2017 11:55:24 AM
In three weeks, on Shabbat Beshalach/Tu B'Shevat, February 10-11, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, Dr. Shai Secunda, Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College.
Please join us over Shabbat for a fascinating series of talks and discussions on both Tu B'Shevat in it's historical context, and contemporary Modern Orthodoxy (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.
Reservations for the dinner should be made by Tuesday, February 7th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
This Shabbaton includes:
- Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 5:05 PM
- Friday night dinner in shul at 6:30 PM (RSVP and payment required),
- Lecture at 8:00 PM (free – all are welcome),
- Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
- Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 5:15 PM
Speaking Schedule & Topics
Friday Night, 8:00 PM:
Talking Trees? Rabbis, Manichaeans, and Other Strange Birds
Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM:
כי האדם עץ השדה - Each Person a Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
Seuda Shelishit, 5:15 PM:
Eastern Orthodox: A Discussion of 21st Century Modern Orthodoxy in Israel and North America
Dr. Shai Secunda
Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Associate Professor of Judaism at Bard College, where he teaches in the Religion Department. He earned his PhD at Yeshiva University, and then held posts at Yale and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on classical Judaism and its interactions with other traditions and on the Talmud's Iranian context, (his book The Iranian Talmud, has recently been released in paperback). He writes regularly on Jewish scholarship and popular culture for the Jewish Review of Books.
Weekly Update: Shabbat Shemot 5777
01/19/2017 09:47:50 PM
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TOMORROW NIGHT: An Evening with Rav David Bigman
01/18/2017 02:26:32 PM
An Evening with
Rav David Bigman
Thursday, January 19, 2017
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Please join us tomorrow night, Thursday, January 19, at 7:30 PM, for an evening of learning with Rav David Bigman, Rosh HaYeshiva at Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa.
Rav Bigman will be discussing "Are Doors and Locks Always Legitimate: A Halachik-Conceptual Analysis".
Pizza and Beer will be served.
The event is free but please register on the event page if you plan to attend.
About Rav Bigman
Rav Bigman was born in 1954 and studied in the Beit Midrash in Skokie, Illinois, with Rabbi Aryeh Bakst in Detroit and in Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. He received his B.A. in Economics with honors from Wayne State University. In 1976 he made aliyah and moved to Kibbutz Maale Gilboa, where he is a member to this day. In Israel, Rabbi Bigman has served in the army, studied in Yeshivat Merkaz Harav and in Yeshivat Netzech Yisrael (with Rabbi Yisroel Zev Gustman) and received smicha at Mechon Ariel in Haifa.
From 1983 until 1988, Rabbi Bigman served as the Rabbi of Kibbutz Maale Gilboa and from 1987 until 1992 he served as Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivat haKibbutz HaDati Ein Tzurim. He was one of the founders of Yeshivat HaKibbutz HaDati laBanot (which later became Midreshet haBanot b'Ein Hanatz"iv). He is active in issues pertaining to society and halacha, including Mesuravei Get, the organization Maaglei Tzedek, and dialogue between secular and religious Israelis.
Classes Tonight!
01/18/2017 01:09:33 PM
Foundations of Hebrew, Foundations of Theology, and the class on Sufi Jews, will all meet tonight, Wednesday, January 18.
6:30 PM - Foundations of Hebrew Reading
7:00 PM - Foundations of Shabbat
8:00 PM - Sufi Jews: Judaism's Encounter with Islamic Mysticism
Source material for the Foundations classes can be found here.
For the class on Sufi Jews, please click here.
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