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Beyond Labels: Can't We All Get Along?

Rabbi Avi Shafran, Rabbi Shmuel Goldin

This is the 2013 installation of the Joseph and Ruth Kelman z"l Memorial Lectures, sponsored by the Gutenberg and Kelman families in honour of the yahrzeits of their parents.
Audio
Jun 19, 2013

Educating Adolescents About Intimacy: Conflicts and Commitments

Yocheved Debow

The instant availability of endless sources of information about sexuality from every possible viewpoint has made it imperative that Orthodox Jewish parents talk to their children explaining human sexuality and intimacy from a Torah perspective. Dr…
Program
Jun 19, 2013

How Welcoming is the Orthodox Community?

Hadassah Paladin, Harold Berman, Michael Prell and 2 more

Do we appreciate the sacrifices and accomplishments of our community's converts? Co-sponsored by the Manhattan Mechina L’Giyur, Lincoln Square Synagogue, Torah in Motion and Manhattan Jewish Experience. Moderated by Rabbi Maury Kelman, director of…
Program
Feb 21, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World: Why I Went "Off the Derech" and Why You Are All Wrong About It

Ari Margolies

Audio
Jan 23, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World: Making Judaism Compelling for Our Students

Audio
Jan 23, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World: Keeping Our Children Safe

Rabbi Yakov Horowitz

Audio
Jan 23, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World Panel Discussion - Leaving Judaism: The Return to Questioning

Ari Margolies, Dr. Elliott Malamet, Leah Malamet and 2 more

Audio
Jan 23, 2013

Educating Our Children in a Complex World

Ari Margolies, Dr. Elliott Malamet, Leah Malamet and 3 more

We all know what "off the derech" means. There's a Wikipedia page for it. There's even an acronym, OTD. There are blogs, books, and celebrity spokespeople. We've all seen the hurt and confusion of parents who dedicated their lives to trying to…
Program
Jan 2, 2013

Religious Zionism at the Crossroads: Torah in Motion in Israel

Dr. Elliott Malamet, Dr. Moshe Koppel, Dr. Yuval Cherlow and 4 more

Two years ago, Haaretz printed an opinion piece saying that Religious Zionism was officially dead. Even one of the movement’s most respected figures, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, has identified Religious Zionism as “in crisis—maybe even terminally ill.”…
Program
Dec 14, 2012

Through the Looking Glass: Modern Orthodoxy and Modern Islam (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)

Rabbi Francis Nataf

Audio
Nov 7, 2012