Live Programs
Rabbi Joseph and Ruth Kelman Memorial Lectures with Dr. Tova Ganzel

Dates

June 24, 2017 June 25, 2017

Time

Saturdays 4:30 AM Eastern

Location

Multiple Locations

Sponsored by the Gutenberg and Kelman families in observance of the yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph and Ruth Kelman, z"l

Sunday, June 25, 2017:

Zichron Yisroel Congregation of Associated Hebrew Schools, 300 Atkinson Avenue, Thornhill

  • 9:30 am: The Evolving Role of the Rabbinate Through the Generations

Dr. Tova Ganzel is the Director of the Midrasha in Bar-Ilan University, and one of Nishmat’s first 
trained yo’atzot halakha. She completed her PhD in the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University. 
She is the author of A Visionary’s Oracles – From Destruction to Restoration, Studies in the Prophecies of Ezekiel, and is among the editors of In the Eyes of God and Man: The Believer and Scientific Study of the Bible.

Sponsored by the Gutenberg and Kelman families in honour of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph and Ruth Kelman z”l

Topics:

Modern History, Jewish History, Society

Meet the speaker

Dr. Tova Ganzel

Tova Ganzel specializes in prophetic literature in the context of the ancient Near East. Her recent research focuses on the Book of Ezekiel in its Babylonian setting and on temples in Second Temple literature. In addition, she studies the reception of modern biblical criticism in Jewish thought from the eighteenth century onward, as well as the role of women serving as Halakhic authorities.

Dr. Tova Ganzel bio & resources