Center for Modern

The Summer Beit Torah Leadership Center for 63 S Pleasant St., Modern Torah Midrash Sharon, MA 02067 E-mail: [email protected] The Summer Beit Brauna Doidge Leadership Director of Operations Midrash is an intense and exhilarating learning The mission of the CMTL is to foster a vision of fully committed Halachic Judaism that Summer Beit program that allows embraces the intellectual and moral Midrash Fellows to pursue challenges of modernity as spiritual opportunities, in order to create authentic compelling questions with leaders. The Center carries out its mission through the Summer Beit Midrash program, intellectual rigor and the Rabbis and Educators Professional ethical integrity in the Development Institute, the Campus and Community Education Initiatives, weekly framework of a warm and Divrei Torah, and our website www.torahleadership.org, which houses Join us this summer at challenging Orthodox hundreds of articles and audio lectures. community, and to Congregation experience themselves as Kadimah - Toras Moshe! active contributors to the Congregation Halakhic conversation. Kadimah-Toras Moshe 113 Washington Street This year’s theme is Brighton, MA 02135 “Halakhah and Phone: 617-254-1333 E-mail: [email protected] Economics” and the Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe was Fellows will produce Brighton’s first Orthodox synagogue, Tshuvot at the end of the organized in 1941. Today, we are a vibrant, forward-thinking, Orthodox Jewish summer on this year’s community where all are welcome. theme. There are about 75 families affiliated with the synagogue. We hold classes in Chumash and as well as on occasional topics weekly. The Congregation is a proud member of the Orthodox Union as well as the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts. To learn more about our Congregation, visit our website at www.kadimahtorasmoshe.org.

Where all are welcome. PROGRAM SCHEDULE

7:00pm, July 20 — Monday July 25 — Shabbat Rabbi Aryeh Klapper — How To 12:00pm — Tzipporah Machlah Read Like Hazal: Why Did God Not Klapper: The Chumra Game: A Case Conceal the Fate of Sedom from Study in Tzitzis Avraham? Tzipporah Machlah Klapper is a recent graduate Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for of Park City Independent Online High School. She Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of looks forward to her fifth summer in the Summer its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a Beit Midrash. member of the Boston Beit Din. 6:10pm — Blanche Haddad: Moshe Center for Modern 7:00pm, July 21 — Tuesday Torah Leadership and the Makot: A Transformation in Avi Schwartz - The Shittah of Rabbi Leadership Summer Beit Yehudah bar Ilai in Hilkhot Shevi’it, Blanche Haddad is a graduate of Stern College for Midrash or How Can I Farm During the Women, holding degrees in English Literature Shemitta Year? The Center for Modern Torah and Judaic Studies. Blanche spent a year and a Avram Schwartz graduated from Columbia and half after high school at Midreshet Moriah and Leadership is proud to host JTS in 2013. He is starting his third year at will be attending GPATS in the fall. the 2015 Summer Beit Yeshivat Chovevei Torah this fall and spent last Midrash. SBM Fellows include year studying at Yeshivat Hahesder Yerucham in 7:00pm — Tova Reiter: Responsibility men and women from leading . and the Retelling of the Meraglim Story universities, yeshivot, and 7:00pm, July 22 — Wednesday Tova Reiter is a proud alumna of Prospect Park seminaries. Our fellows all Judah Kerbel — One-Fifth for the and Michlalah . She is currently have advanced textual skills Poor: Are There Really Limits on studying Economics at the University of Chicago and a passionate commitment Giving Tzedekah? with particular interest in education and health to learning Torah in an Judah Kerbel just completed his first year of policy. environment that welcomes semicha at RIETS. He graduated with a BA in July 26 — Sunday the moral challenges of Jewish Studies and Psychology from the modernity as spiritual University of Maryland and spent a semester Tisha B’Av studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion. opportunities and sees 11:00am— Sarah Robinson: When recognition of each human 7:00pm, July 23 — Thursday Was Megillat Eicha Written? A Machloket Rishonim being as a Divine Image as a Avinoam Stillman — An fundamental assumption and Introduction to the Hasidic A recent graduate of Stern College for Women, Sarah Robinson currently serves as Director of telos of . Teachings of the Maggid of Mezerich Adult Synagogue Education in Congregation Ohav Avinoam Stillman is a rising Junior at Columbia Sholom. In the fall, Sarah will begin a Masters in College, majoring in Religion. Avinoam learned Talmud through Stern College’s GPATS program. at Beit Va’ad Har Hebron in Otniel.