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Regional Edah Conferences During 2005-6
For more info contact Marisa Yammer
EDAH IN BOSTON - SHABBATONIM
November 18th- 19th, 2005
Congregation Shaarei Tefillah
Rabbi Benjamin Samuels
35 Morseland Avenue
Newton Center, MA
With Dr. Samuel Heilman
Lectures:
Erev Shabbat: Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Orthodoxy
Shabbat morning: The Year in Israel: Its Impact on the Future of American Orthodoxy
Harvard Hillel
Rabbi Avi Poupko
441 Somerville Avenue
Somerville, MA
With Rabbi Dov Linzer
The Religious Life of Non-Jews: Rediscovering Universalistic and Pluralistic Sources
Christianity and Islam as Idolatry
Entering into Churches and Mosques
Saving the Life of a Non-Jew on Shabbat
Young Israel of Sharon
Rabbi Dr. Meir Sendor
100 Ames Street
Sharon, MA
With Rabbi Saul Berman
Lectures:
Friday night – “The Agunah Problem”
Shabbat Morning “Religious Zionism after the Disengagment”
Between Mincha and Ma’ariv- “Jewish Ethics in the Conduct of War”
Boston University
Rabbi Yosef Polak
233 Bay State Road
Boston, MA
With Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Lectures:
Friday night- “Operation: Last Chance, and the Final Efforts to Bring Nazi
War Criminals to Justice”
Shabbat afternoon - “Who will live and who will die—dilemmas faced
by orthodox rescue activists in the US during the Holocaust.”
Congregation Beth Sholom
Rabbi Mitchell Levine
275 Camp St.
Providence, RI
With Rabbi Benjamin Hecht
Fri Night - "What is the Jewish Group?"
Shabbat Morning drasha - "The Division of Orthodoxy"
Seudat Shlishit - "The Challenge of Unity"
EDAH MINI-CONFERENCE:
Challenges to Orthodoxy in the 21st Century
Saturday, November 19th, 8:00 PM at Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, Newton
Center, MA
8:00 PM Rabbi Saul Berman - Is Chumrah Innately more Religious?
8:20 PM Dr. Efraim Zuroff - Will Religious Zionism Be Able to Continue to Bridge the Secular-Observant Divide in Israeli Society? Reflections on the Disengagement Process and its Aftermath
8:40 PM Rabbi Benjamin Hecht - Eilu V’Eilu and Halachic Pluralism
9:00 PM Dessert
9:20 PM Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman - Shaping an Orthodox Response to the Reality of Intermarriage
9:40 PM Rabbi Dov Linzer - Is it Legitimate for Feminist Values to Influence Halacha?
10:00 PM Dr. Sam Heilman - The future of the relationship between the Charedi and Modern Orthodox Community
Speakers' Bios:
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and also co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her newest book, Double Or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage, (Brandeis University Press, 2004) has been the subject of lively discussion by scholars and Jewish communal professionals. Prof. Fishman is the author of numerous articles on Jewish education, the American Jewish family, changing roles of Jewish women, and American Jewish literature, film and popular culture, as well as three previous books: Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction; A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community; and Jewish Life and American Culture. Prof. Fishman received her BA from Stern College at Yeshiva University, which awarded the Samuel Belkin Prize for Distinguished Professional Achievement, and her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, which awarded her a Danforth Graduate Fellowship. She is married to Dr. Phillip M. Fishman, a mathematician, has three children and six grandchildren, and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Rabbi Saul J. Berman is a leading Orthodox teacher and thinker. He was ordained at Yeshiva University, from which he also received his B.A. and his M.H.L. He completed a degree in law, a J.D., at New York University, and an M.A. in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He spent two years studying mishpat ivri in Israel at Hebrew University and at Tel Aviv University. He is married to Shellee Berman, and they have four children, one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren in Israel. Rabbi Berman served as the Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California, from 1963 to 1969, and as the spiritual leader of the Young Israel in Brookline, Mass. from 1969-1971. In 1971, he was appointed Chairman of the Department if Judaic Studies of Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. In 1984, Rabbi Berman accepted the position as Senior Rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, where he served until 1990. In 1990, he returned to academic life, as Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Stern College, and as an adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar in Jewish Law. In 1997, Rabbi Berman became Director of Edah, a new organization devoted to the invigoration of modern Orthodox ideology and religious life
Rabbi Benjamin Hecht is the Founding Director of NISHMA, is recognized throughout North America and Israel for his study, insights and perspectives in the fields of Torah law and ethics. He serves as the editor of the NISHMA Journal and NISHMA Introspection and writes prolifically on Jewish thought and its interaction with the world political scene and the human condition. His work has been published internationally, including in The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Jewish Press and The Canadian Jewish News. He lectures extensively and is a sought-after opinion leader, having been a guest on Passages and other radio and television programs. Rabbi Hecht is active in Nishma's ongoing research and education projects and is about to complete a new book on Jewish identity. In addition to his rabbinical ordination, he holds degrees in law, psychology and business. Rabbi Hecht is joined in his work by his wife Naomi, and they have four children and reside in Hamilton, Ontario.
Dr. Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies
at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens
College of the City University of New York. He has also been Scheinbrun Visiting
Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, visiting professor
of social anthropology at Tel Aviv University, and a Fulbright visiting professor
at the Universities of New South Wales and Melbourne in Australia. He has been
a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Rutgers University,
Harvard University, the University of Maryland, Carelton College, Sydney University,
Spertus College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brandeis University, among
others. In 1993 he gave the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures at the University
of Washington. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews as well as
eight books: Synagogue Life, The People of the Book, The Gate Behind the Wall,
A Walker in Jerusalem, Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in
America (co-authored with Steven M. Cohen) Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox
Jewry and most recently When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son.
His Stroum Lectures at the University of Washington have been published University's
Press in 1996 as: Portrait of American Jewry: The Last Half of the 20th Century.
A number of these books are recently reissued and all are currently in print.
He also writes a monthly column on the sociology of Jewry for the New York Jewish
Week and is a frequent contributor to a number of magazines and newspapers.
He is also Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Jewry. The Baltimore Sun wrote of
Heilman "He is a poet: He has made the familiar seem strange, and the strange,
familiar."
Rabbi Dov Linzer is Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and is also Rosh HaYeshiva of the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah University Program. A recipient of both the Javits and Wexner Graduate fellowships, he has done graduate work in philosophy and is now pursuing a doctorate in Religion at Columbia University. Rabbi Linzer has published in Torah journals and lectures widely at synagogues and conferences on topics relating to halakha, Orthodoxy and modernity.
Dr. Efraim Zuroff is the Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Israel Office and the Coordinator of Nazi War Crimes Research, SWC. Born in New York, Efraim moved to Israel in 1970 after completing his undergraduate degree in history (with honors) at Yeshiva University. He obtained a M.A. degree in Holocaust studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University, where he also completed his PH.D., which chronicles the response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust and focuses on the rescue attempts launched by the Vaad ha-Hatzala rescue committee. In recent years, Zuroff has lectured extensively to audiences all over the world regarding the efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. His publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as Yad Vashem Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, and American Jewish History, as well as in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Jerusalem Post, Tikkun, Jerusalem Report, Ma’ariv, Ha-Aretz, Yediot, Achronot, Jewish Chronicle and other publications and have been translated into eleven languages.
For info on Regional Conferences that have already taken place, see the links below:
Baltimore/Washington DC - April 8-10, 2005
Sponsoring Congregations:
Beth Tefilloh in Baltimore, MD
Netivot Shalom: The New Shul of Baltimore
Liberty Jewish Center in Baltimore, MD
Ner Tamid Congregation in Baltimore, MD
Kemp Mill Synagogue in Silver Spring, MD
Beth Sholom in Potomac, MD
Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah in Washington, DC
Northern California - May 13-15, 2005
Sponsoring Congregations:
Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, CA
Knesset Israel Torah Center in Sacramento, CA
Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland, CA
Adath Israel Congregation in San Francisco, CA
Congregation Emek Beracha in Palo Alto, CA
Sponsoring Congregations:
Anshei Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago
Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue in Skokie
Newberger Hillel Center of the University of Chicago in Chicago
Congregation Or Torah in Skokie
Lake Shore Drive Synagogue in Chicago
North Western Synagogue
Montreal - Nov. 11-12, 2005
Shabbatonim:
Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, 6519 Bailey Road, Cote St. Luc
With Rabbi Saul Berman - Shabbat Morning
Shiur: Religious Zionist Attitudes Towards a Secular Government in Israel
Congregation Beth Tikvah
Rabbi Mordecai Zeitz
135 Westpark Boulevard, Dollard Des Orneaux
With Rabbi Charles Sheer
Lectures:
Friday night “Some Unorthodox Reflections on Women and Judaism”
Shabbat morning “How Odd of G-d To Choose Abraham”
Seudat Shlishit- “A Jewish Report Card"
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim
Rabbi Adam Sheier
450 Kensington Avenue, Westmount
With Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Lectures:
The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Can Nazi War Criminals Be Prosecuted in the 21st Century?
Adath Israel Poale Zedek Congregation
Rabbi Michael Whitman
223 Harrow Crescent
Hampstead
With Rabbi Saul Berman
Erev Shabbat Open House Oneg Shabbat – Modern Orthodoxy and the Role
of Edah
Shabbat Afternoon, Between Mincha (3:30 pm) and Ma’ariv- Ethical Transformations
Through Shabbat
Edah Montreal Regional Conference :
RELIGIOUS ZIONISM-FROM DISENGAGEMENT TO RECONNECTION
Co-Sponsored w/ Kollel Torah Mitzion
Cost: $10
November 12th, 7:30 pm, at The Lieberman Beit Midrash
5700 Kellert Ave, Cote St. Luc
7:30 PM: Rabbi Saul J. Berman - The Role of Religious Leadership
8:00 PM: Rabbi Baruch Plaskow - The Way Forward for Modern Zionist Orthodoxy
8:30 PM: Dr. Efraim Zuroff - What the Disengagement Taught Us About the Current State of Religious Zionism in Israel: Thoughts About the Past and the Future
9:00 PM: Rabbi Charles Sheer - The Biblical Claim to the Land of Israel and Its Implications For Public Policy
9:30 PM - Dessert Reception