Announcements

This week, on Shabbat Shelach, June 8-9, we will welcome as our Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill, the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University. Dr. Brill is a very well respected professor of Judaic studies, comparative religion, and mysticism, and is an active participant in the Jewish interfaith encounter with Catholics, Muslims, and Hindus.

Please join us on Friday night for a delicious and social Community Shabbat Dinner, and join us as well over Shabbat for a thought-provoking series of talks and discussions on the Jewish encounter with Hinduism, and Jewish & Eastern meditation.

Reservations for the dinner should be made by Wednesday, June 6th.
Student: $18 | Dinner: $36 | Sponsor: $180

This Shabbaton includes:

• Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat at 7:00 PM
• Friday night dinner in shul at 8:00 PM (RSVP and payment required)
• Lecture at 9:30 PM (free – all are welcome)
• Shabbat morning sermon at 10:30 AM
• Shabbat afternoon class at 6:55 PM
• Q & A discussion at Seudah Shelishit at 8:15 PM

Speaking Schedule & Topics

Friday Night, 9:30 PM: 
   "Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter"

Shabbat Morning, 10:30 AM: 
   "Do Jews Meditate?"

Shabbat Afternoon, 6:55 PM: 
   "Kabbalistic Meditation & Eastern Meditation"

Seudah Shelishit, 6:30 PM: 
   Q & A with Dr. Brill

Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill

Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill is the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University, where he teaches Jewish studies in the graduate program. Brill is the author of Thinking God: The Mysticism of Rabbi Zadok of Lublin (2002), Judaism and Other Religions: Models Of Understanding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and Judaism and World Religions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Dr. Brill received his BA, MA, and Rabbinical Ordination from Yeshiva University and his PhD from  Fordham University. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar awardee to research and teach at Banares Hindu University in Varanasi, India. Brill just completed a book tentatively entitled “Rabbi on The Ganges: A Jewish Hindu Encounter." Brill is active in the Jewish interfaith encounter with Catholics, Muslims, and Hindus. He also just edited a forthcoming volume on the writings of Rav Shagar (d. 2007).