Announcements

Please join us in two weeks, on Shabbat Vayechi, January 13-14, 2017, as we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.
Dr. Fishman joins us in conjunction with the JOFA Conference 2017, which will be held on January 14-15, at Columbia University. Please visit the JOFA website for more details.

This Shabbaton includes:

• Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 4:35 PM
• Friday night dinner in shul at 6:00 PM (RSVP and payment required),
• Lecture at 7:30 PM (free – all are welcome),
• Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
• Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 4:40 PM

RSVP for the dinner by Tuesday, January 10.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180
 

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 7:30 PM:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
"Gather Yourselves Together: Is Jewishness Still "Tribal"?"

Seuda Shelishit, 4:40 PM:
"Being Jewish and Orthodox Today: Q & A with Dr. Fishman"

Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman

Sylvia Barack Fishman is the Joseph & Esther Foster Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University, and Co-Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. She is the author of eight books, including Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution, and numerous articles on Jewish life, education and culture.
Professor Fishman received The Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, 2014; she received the Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Washington University, where she earned her Ph.D., and received the Samuel Belkin Memorial Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater.