Announcements

This Shabbat, Parashat Vayechi, January 13-14, we welcome our next Shabbat Scholar, 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. See the JOFA website for more details.

Please join us over Shabbat for a stimulating series of talks and discussions on the state of contemporary American Judaism (see schedule below). And please join us as well on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner.

Registrations for the dinner should be made by today, Tuesday, January 10th!
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180

Following dinner, at 7:30 PM, Dr. Fishman will talk with us about:
"Diverse Faces of Contemporary Jewish Families"

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

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.