Jewish Communities Around the World (Part 4)
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Dr. Marc Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing…
Rabbi Boruch Oberlander
Rabbi Boruch Oberlander was born in New York in 1965 to Holocaust surviving parents from Hungary. After studying in Yeshivot in the U.S.A. and Israel he received his Rabbinical Ordination from the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz in 1988. In March of 1989 he married his wife Batsheva, and in August of that year the young couple arrived as emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Hungary. From the beginning they were active in the renaissance of Jewish life in Hungary…