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Beit Midrash July 12 – July 22, 2012 • 5772 Young Israel of Toco Hills 2074 Lavista Road NE Atlanta, GA Welcome Yeshiva University Atlanta Beit Midrash July 12 – July 22, 2012 • 5772 Young Israel of Toco Hills 2074 LaVista Road NE Atlanta, GA Welcome Dear Friends, This summer, Yeshiva University is excited to once again partner with the Young Israel of Toco Hills to bring you the YU Atlanta Beit Midrash. Our goal is to create a vibrant and energetic Kol Torah in the community that fosters a caring and inspirational environment for adults and children alike to grow with our talmidim. We are grateful to our partners at the Young Israel for their support in these initiatives. In particular, I would like to thank Rabbi Michael Broyde, Rabbi Adam Starr and Rabbi Jeremy Wieder for their leadership. With these programs, we invite you to experience and enjoy the warmth and wisdom of Yeshiva University. It is our wish that the learning this summer to enjoy the splendor of Torah), and continue to strengthen the relationship) להגדיל תורה ולהאדירה will serve between your community and Yeshiva University and its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. B’Yedidut, Rabbi Kenneth Brander The David Mitzner Dean Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Roshei Beit Midrash Rabbi Jeremy Wieder serves as a Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshiva University’s Mazer Yeshiva Program and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is also an adjunct Professor of Bible at Yeshiva College. He holds a B.A. from Yeshiva College, an M.S. from Bernard Revel Graduate School and a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University. Rabbi Michael Broyde is the founding Rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills and is also a Professor of Law at Emory University. He has published more than 60 articles in various aspects of Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of Federal courts, as well as two books. Rabbi Broyde has been called by the Yeshiva University Review “the most prolific scholar of comparative law and Halakhah working in the United States today, and is considered by many to have done the best work.” Meet the Students Adina Sarit Roy Maayan David Ezra Rose Dov Brizel Cohen Feldman Hachen Hein Seligsohn Snyder Winston Beit Midrash Program Daily Learning Schedule 9:00am - 12:00pm Morning Seder 7:15 - 8:30 Communal Learning and Shiurim 12:00pm - 1:00pm Shiur on the laws of Ma’achalei Akum 8:30 Minchah/Maariv 2:45 - 5:30 Afternoon Seder and Practical Training Community Programs Scholar in Residence Shabbat Superhuman or Super Humans: with Rosh Beit Midrash Rabbi Jeremy Wieder A Debate about our Attitude and Dr. Chavivah Levin towards Biblical Heroes Shabbat Parshat Pinchas July 13-14 Shabbat, July 21, 7:15pm The Young Israel will host a communal How are we to approach heroes of Biblical Shabbat lunch. stories? To what extent may we criticize their actions, if at all? Are they holy angels Tisch with Rabbi Starr on unreachable pedestals, or are they human and the YU Beit Midrash beings from whom we are to learn? Shabbat Friday night, July 13th, 10:00 at YITH afternoon, the YU students will debate these Join Rabbi Starr and the YU students for issues. singing, Divrei Torah and hot chulent Sunday Morning Breakfast & Learning for the Entire Family! July 15th , following the 8:30am Shacharit Minyan Heinz Dilemma in Halacha For more information, Rabbi Wieder and 4 YU students will run please contact learning sessions for adults, while 4 YU students run a separate learning program for Rabbi Adam Starr children in grades 1-5. Babysitting for small children will be provided. [email protected] Rabbi Elie Mischel Living Room Limmud with the YU Students [email protected]. Monday & Wednesday evening, July 16 and 18, location TBD CJFCJF Summer Summer Programs 2012 Programs 2012 Kansas City Summer Experience A Summer of Torah with Yeshiva Ten men and women will become a part of the Kansas City University in Denver BIAV Jewish community for a month, spending their days Based in the EDOS and DAT congregations, Rabbis Daniel working at a variety of exciting internships, and dedicating Rapp and Daniel Z. Feldman will join the Denver community as their nights to energizing and learning Torah with the Jewish extended scholars in residence, teaching Torah to men, women community. and children of all ages. Chicago Lay Leadership Summer Counterpoint Israel: Dimona, Arad, Program Kiryat Malachi, Kiryat Gat, and Beer Students will spend their summer immersed in Torah and Avodah, spending half their days learning with the Yeshiva Sheva University Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago and working the This July, students will spend five weeks enlivening the other half of their day at meaningful internships in their chosen summer for hundreds of Israeli teens living in the Negev, giving fields. them the opportunity to learn Jewish values, develop their English skills and participate in workshops such as art, fashion South Bend Summer Experience and break-dance. Yeshiva University students are returning Two students will join the South Bend, Indiana Jewish to Dimona for the fifth summer and to Arad for the second, community for three weeks, spending their days interning at and are inaugurating camps in Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malachi, and the Steel Warehouse Company, and dedicating their nights to Beer Sheva for teenagers-at-risk. With Support from Keren Torah study and community outreach. L’Yididut, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey and Delaware, Repair the World, and Sharon & Atlanta Beit Midrash Avraham Blumenthal. Eight men and women will engage and inspire the greater Atlanta Jewish community while engaging in serious Torah Haiti Disaster Relief Mission study under the guidance of Rabbis Jeremy Wieder, Michael Run in partnership with the Joint Distribution Committee Broyde and Adam Starr. (JDC), Yeshiva University students will work to repair medical clinics and teach displaced children and orphans in temporary Houston Pre-Med Internship Program schools. Through this program, participants will have a unique Four pre-med men and women from Yeshiva University will opportunity to learn about Haitian culture,understand the become a part of the Houston Jewish community for a month, current humanitarian crisis, and perform meaningful service where they will intern at the prestigious University of Texas’ for a nation in need. Additionally, students will learn about the MD Anderson Cancer Center during the day, while dedicating Jewish imperative to be involved in the welfare of humanity their nights to energizing and learning Torah with the Jewish through dynamic Torah learning sessions. With Support from community. Repair the World Los Angeles High School Connection Germany Close Up: Ten men and women will spend nine days inspiring and Established in October 2007, Germany Close-Up is an initiative learning Torah with high school students in the Los Angeles created to enrich transatlantic dialogue and provide Jewish area, participating in the YULA High School Shavuot American students with an opportunity to experience modern program and running programs at both Shalhevet and YULA Germany. The purpose of the program is to bring Jewish throughout the trip. American students to Germany, in order for them to gain their own perspective on Germany – its past, its present, and its Stamford Community Kollel future. Students will meet with the Jewish communities of Four men will invigorate and experience the warmth of the Berlin and Leipzig while experiencing Berlin’s multicultural life, Young Israel of Stamford and greater Stamford communities by visiting former East Germany, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, learning with and running programs for the community under the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in addition to the guidance of Rabbis Michael Taubes and Elly Krimsky. many other key historical sites and cultural venues. .
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