Scholars in Residence
Guest speakers this past year have included Rabbi JJ Schachter, Rabbi David Stav, Rabbi Francis Nataf, Gila Block, Alan Mendoza, Sgt. Benjamin Anthony and Danny Ayalon. Topics have included Current Events in Israel, Infertility, Modern Biblical Analysis, and Contemporary Halacha. In addition, Rabbi Klibanoff periodically speaks in a special Limmud Shabbat format after Musaf on an assortment of topics.
Classes
Monday
Yiddish - with Morris Glicklich and Michael Mamet - 7:00pm, after Ma'ariv (6:45)
Tuesday
(Women's Class) Parshat Hashavua - with Rabbi Klibanoff
10:30am
Arvei Pesachim Talmud Shiur - with Rabbi Klibanoff
7:00pm, after Ma'ariv (6:45)
Community Scholar: Dr. Erica Brown
Dr. Erica Brown is
an associate professor at George Washington University and the director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is the author of eleven books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and spirituality; her forthcoming book is a commentary on the Book of Esther. She has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Tablet and The Jewish Review of Books and writes a monthly column for the New York Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington Post's "On Faith" and JTA and tweets on one page of Talmud study a day at ericabrown.com
