Shabbat Scholar in Residence Series
Schwartz Scholar-in Residence: Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody
Friday-Saturday, November 15 & 16Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody is the executive editor of Ematai, an organization dedicated to help Jews navigate dilemmas relating to aging, end-of-life care, and organ donation. He is also the author of the recent book, Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War & Morality and the award-winning A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates. Rabbi Brody will be speaking about the ethics of war over Shabbat.
Join us for an elegant catered Shabbat dinner on Friday night and conversation with Schwartz Scholar in Residence, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody.
Sponsored by Nathan and Louise Schwartz, z"l, of Wilmington, NC.
Friday-Saturday, March 7-8
Rabbi Adam Mintz is the rabbi of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox community he founded on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the Director of 929 English, a web-based project that promotes the daily study of a chapter of Tanakh. He is the author of Building Communities: A History of the Eruv in America and has edited several volumes of essays on Jewish thought and religion.
Join us for an elegant catered Shabbat dinner on Friday night and conversation with Schwartz Scholar in Residence, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody.
Sponsored by Nathan and Louise Schwartz, z"l, of Wilmington, NC.
Rabbi Judah Dardik
Friday-Saturday, February 14-15
Rabbi Dov LinzerRabbi Judah Dardik is a Sgan Rosh Yeshiva (Assistant Dean) and full-time Ram at Yeshivat Orayta in the Old City of Jerusalem, where he teaches Talmud, Halachah, Jewish Philosophy, Personal Growth and oversees student welfare. He is also the Dean of the JLE, the Orayta Center for Jewish Leadership and Engagement, where he runs an adult education and Rabbinic educational missions and directs Orayta's larger effort to inspire the broader Jewish community and help train its leadership.
Sermon: “People on a Mission”
Kiddush Class: "How Many Commandments: Ten or 613?"
Class during Seudah Shelishit: "Mitzvot, Reason and the Unexplained"
Rabbi Dov Linzer is the President and Rosh HaYeshiva of YCT Rabbinical School. He has published over 100 teshuvot (responsa) and scholarly Torah articles, and hosts a number of highly popular Torah podcasts. He is co-author, together with Abigail Pogrebin, of It Takes Two To Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.
Sermon: Purim and the Mandate of Inclusion
Book Talk during Kiddush with co-author Abigail Pogrebin: It Takes Two to Torah: Finding What Unites Us at a Time of Deep Division
Class during Seudah Shlishit: Does Halacha Talk Values?
Sermon: Purim and the Mandate of Inclusion
Book Talk during Kiddush with co-author Abigail Pogrebin: It Takes Two to Torah: Finding What Unites Us at a Time of Deep Division
Class during Seudah Shlishit: Does Halacha Talk Values?
Rabbi Etan Mintz
Friday-Saturday, March 28-29Rabbi Etan Mintz is spiritual leader of B’nai Israel Congregation, where he is spearheading the revitalization of Baltimore’s oldest continually active Synagogue. A Senior rabbinic fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, he holds a Masters Degree in Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and a M.P.A. from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Schwartz Scholar-in Residence: Rabbi Adam Mintz
Friday-Saturday, May 2-3Rabbi Adam Mintz is the rabbi of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox community he founded on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the Director of 929 English, a web-based project that promotes the daily study of a chapter of Tanakh. He is the author of Building Communities: A History of the Eruv in America and has edited several volumes of essays on Jewish thought and religion.
Sponsored by Nathan and Louise Schwartz (z”l) of Wilmington, NC.
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