e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: The "Langer Affair"

Dates

January 27, 2025 to May 12, 2025

Time

Mondays 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM Eastern

Next class

Monday April 28, 2025

The series is sponsored in memory of Albert Sasson, Abraham ben Salha z”l by his sons Jacob and Joseph Sasson. May we be blessed with good health and long life.

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Mondays at 8:30 PM Eastern
Beginning Monday, April 28, 2025

The "Langer Affair," where Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren freed two young people from the taint of mamzerut, became the State of Israel's most divisive halakhic dispute. We will examine this dispute from a halakhic, sociological and political lens, and uncover some fascinating ironies and examples of how Orthodox society has evolved since the early 1970s.

Topics:

Halacha, History, Modern History, Jewish History

Upcoming classes

Meet the speaker

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…

Dr. Marc Shapiro bio & resources