| A Weekend With Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo |
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 8:15 PM
Yeshivat Or Chaim, 159 Almore Ave.
As part of our "Spirituality Today" series, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Cardozo will dialogue with Dr. Elliott Malamet about faith, religious struggle and Rabbi Cardozo's unusual halachic conversion from a sephardic Jewish home into Judaism.
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 9:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Shaarei Shomayim, 470 Glencairn Ave.
Sisterhood Hall
Rabbi Cardozo will give a seminar entitled: "The Challenge of Conformity, the Crisis of Spirituality and the need for Halachic Diversity."
Suggested Donation: $10. Students are free.
Rabbi Cardozo will also be speaking at Yeshivat Or Chaim on Shabbat, September 13.
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo is Dean of the David Cardozo Academy
and Tel Aviv's "Bet Midrash of Avraham Avinu" for secular Israelis, based in Jerusalem. He is a prominent lecturer and author, world renowned for his original insights into Judaism and his ability to communicate the relevance of Jewish values and practice in today's complicated world. A native of the Spanish- Portuguese Jewish community of Holland who holds a doctorate in philosophy, Rabbi Lopes Cardozo received rabbinic ordination from the Gateshead Talmudic College and studied in Israel at the Institute for Higher Rabbinical Studies of Chief Rabbi Unterman and at the Mir Yeshiva. His most recent book is
Thoughts to Ponder 1 and 2; Crisis, Covenant and Creativity and For the Love of Israel and the Jewish People.
Download past talks by Rabbi Cardozo here.
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Renewing Our Spirit 5768:
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Weekend of November 8-9, 2008
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
470 Glencairn Ave.
Featuring:
Rabbi Michael Broyde | Professor of Law, Emory University | download past mp3s
Rabbi Dr. Yoel Finkelman | Director of Projects and Research, ATID | download past mp3s
Rabbi Yehuda Gilad | Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa | download past mp3s
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin | Prominent Posek and Author, Bnei Banim Responsa
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz | Founder and Director of Agudath Israel 's Project Y.E.S. (Youth Enrichment Services)
Rabbi Benny Lau | Rabbi, Ramban Synagogue
Dr. Tamar Ross | Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Bar Ilan University
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| The MaTaN Mother and Daughter Bat Mitzvah Program |
Wednesdays, Beginning on November 4, 2008
Focusing on Jewish Women Throughout the ages, the 11-week program presents Jewish heroines, through textual sources, who are role models that embody positive attributes young women can emulate. Mothers and daughters learn together as well as participate in creative activities each week.
If you will have a daughter grade 6 in 2008-2009, we encourage you to join us for the program.
Space is limited.
Please call 416.633.5770 or email info@torahinmotion.org for further details |
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| Tisha B'Av mp3s now available online |
Thank you to the over 350 people who attended our Tisha B'Av program!
For those who were not able to attend and for those who would like to hear the lectures again, mp3s are now available on our site. Please find them in our store or purchase all five talks for $7.99 here.
You can also purchase individual lectures for $3.99 below:
Dr. Marty Lockshin - Is Disaster Always to be Interpreted as Punishment?
Rabbi Michael Skobac - Then We Cried for Nothing: The Roots of Tisha B'Av
Rabbi Chaim Strauchler - Politics, Sinnat Chinam, History
Dr. Jimmy Diamond - A Heretic's Teaching on Suffering: Elisha ben Abuyah's Lasting Legacy
Dr. Elliott Malamet - Some are guilty, but all are responsible: Fixing an Imperfect World
We hope to see you at future events! |
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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Torah and the Ways of the World
A Conference In Honour of the Bicentennial of His Birth |
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Saturday and Sunday, February 7-8, 2009
Dr. Benny Brown | Jewish Thought, Hebrew Unversity
Dr. Adam Ferziger | Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University | download past mp3s
Dr. Rachel Heuberger | Head of the Jewish Division, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main Dr. Marc Shapiro | Judaic Studies, University of Scranton | download past mp3s |
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e-TiM: Stimulating Torah Virtually Everywhere
Experience Torah like never before |
| See, hear and participate in real time from your home or office.
Welcome to e-TiM , an exciting and powerful new way to participate in our innovative programming.
With this remarkable technology - you can see, hear and speak to the teacher from wherever you are; you have to see it to believe it!
You will be able to
- See and hear a live shiur presented specifically for e-TiM participants
- Talk to the speaker and be heard by all
- Be seen on screen
- Write your comments and questions to the speaker during the class
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Parshat Shoftim - Intellectual Honesty
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| Judaism has always placed tremendous emphasis on intellectual achievement and development. Talmud Torah kneged kulam - the study of Torah equates all other mitzvoth, speaks to this emphasis. "An ignorant person can not be pious" (Avot 2:6) our Sages teach... More |
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| The Ethics of Parking |
| Rabbi Meir says: "Do not look at the vessel, but what is in it" (Avot, 5:27). This simple but true teaching would be well applied to how we think of our own children and those of others, and to the recognition of the potential within each one. What is especially disturbing in many instances is the slotting and... More |
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| Agriprocessors and the Ethics of Kashrut |
The kashrut industry is about more than just food. In an industry where sales reach in the billions of dollars many of the largest food companies have sought and received kosher certification, seeing it as a way to increase profits. With the federal investigations into the Agriprocessors Meat Processing Plant in Postville , we need to examine whether or not kashrut certification is also about more than keeping kosher. Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meatpacking plant in North America (though the majority of its meat sold is actually not kosher) has been accused of myriad violations of the law, ranging from unfair labor practices, safety issues, immigration fraud and was recently raided by the United States government... More |
