Chanukah - December 25 Yom Iyyun

Please join us for learning and inspiration as we prepare for Chanukah

December 24 8:00pm-9:30pm Eastern
December 25 9:15am-2:30pm Eastern/4:15pm-9:30pm Israel time

 

Tuesday December 24

8:00pm Eastern
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's view of non-Jews and Christianity as a Model for 21st-century Orthodox Jews
Rabbi Dr. Moshe Miller

8:45pm Eastern
Thoughts on Judaism and Hinduism
Dr. Marc Shapiro 
 

Wed December 25

9:15am Eastern/4:15pm Israel time
Rabbi Sacks’ Theology of Interfaith Relations through Muslim-Jewish Women's Friendship in the UK after 7th October
Dr. Lindsay Simmonds

9:55am Eastern/4:55pm Israel time
Chabad Menorahs and the Public Square
Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

10:35am Eastern/5:35pm Israel time
Christians and the Books of the Maccabees
Rabbi Dr. Martin Lockshin

11:15am Eastern/6:15pm Israel time
Modiin, the City of Chanukah
Tamar Weissman

11:55am Eastern/6:55pm Israel time Latke and Dreidel Break 

12:10pm Eastern/7:10pm Israel time
How did the Hanukah Al HaNissim integrate the Book of Maccabees and the Talmud into a prayer for all Jews?
Rabbi Dr. Reuven Kimelman

Sponsored by Sandy Welkes in memory of her husband, Gronin Zvi Ben Shmuel Elyakim z”l on the 11th yarhzeit on the first day of Chanukah. May we celebrate smachot
 

12:50pm Eastern/7:50pm Israel time
Praying in Interfaith Chapels: The Case of Cedar-Sinai’s Chapel?
Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner

1:30pm/ Eastern/8:30pm Israel time 
Is it Enough for ChatGPT to Know that a Miracle Happened?
Rabbi Jonathan Ziring
 

Sponsored by Jack & Marla Samuel and Bob & Sharon Silberstein in honour and loving memory of Mrs. Grace Weil z"l ברכה קיילא בת ליפמאן אריה beloved mother/mother-in-law of Drs. Esther & Heshy Sturm and Rabbi Aryeh & Sarah Weil; devoted wife of Mr. David (Sigi) Weil a"h and cherished Savta and great-grandmother to many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Yehi Zichra Baruch