Boston Edah Mini-Conference 11/19/05
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ymarkovEdah Mini-Conference in Boston - Motza-ey Shabbat
The Challenges to Orthodoxy in the 21st Century
EDAH MINI-CONFERENCE in BOSTON
Saturday Night
November 19th
8:00 pm @ 35 Morseland Avenue
Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, Newton Center, MA
$10 for lecture/dessert
8:00 pm Rabbi Saul Berman
Is Chumrah Innately more Religious?
8:20pm 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
8:40pm Rabbi Benjamin Hecht
Halachic Pluralism: The Value of Eilu v’Eilu
9:00pm Dessert
9:20pm Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Shaping an Orthodox Response to the Reality of Intermarriage
9:40pm Rabbi Dov Linzer
Is it Legitimate for Feminist Values to Influence Halacha?
10:00pm Dr. Samuel Heilman
The future of the relationship between the Charedi and Modern Orthodox Community
Speakers’ Bios
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, an organization devoted to the invigoration of modern Orthodox ideology and religious life.
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 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.
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.
The Challenges to Orthodoxy in the 21st Century
EDAH MINI-CONFERENCE in BOSTON
Saturday Night
November 19th
8:00 pm @ 35 Morseland Avenue
Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, Newton Center, MA
$10 for lecture/dessert
8:00 pm Rabbi Saul Berman
Is Chumrah Innately more Religious?
8:20pm 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
8:40pm Rabbi Benjamin Hecht
Halachic Pluralism: The Value of Eilu v’Eilu
9:00pm Dessert
9:20pm Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Shaping an Orthodox Response to the Reality of Intermarriage
9:40pm Rabbi Dov Linzer
Is it Legitimate for Feminist Values to Influence Halacha?
10:00pm Dr. Samuel Heilman
The future of the relationship between the Charedi and Modern Orthodox Community
Speakers’ Bios
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, an organization devoted to the invigoration of modern Orthodox ideology and religious life.
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 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-11-16 12:20 pm (UTC)