THE JEWISH CENTER SPRING ADULT EDUCATION GUIDE 2017/5777 Dr. Erica Brown Ms. Raizi Chechik Rabbi Dr. Yitzchok Breitowitz Jewish Center Principal, Stella K. Senior Lecturer, Ohr Somayach Community Scholar Abraham High School for Girls Professor Mark Cohen Professor Emeritus of Jewish Rabbi Yona Reiss Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz Av Beit Din, CRC Director, Jerusalem Medical Civilization in the Near East Studies Rosh Yeshiva, YU-RIETS Ethics Forum at Princeton University The Modern Orthodox Center for Jewish Life and Learning INSIDE: Celebrateand more!Israel Upcoming Events and Programs The Hanno Mott Lecture on Contemporary Jewish Ethics Dina D’Malchuta Dina FROM THE NEAR-EAST TO THE EAST COAST: THE INTERSECTION OF RABBINIC & CIVIL LAW Featuring Monday, May 8th Rabbi Yona Reiss is a graduate of Yeshiva University, RIETS 7:00PM Members-only reception with the and Yale Law School. He has served presenters as the director of Beth Din of American 7:45PM Mincha and the dean of the Rabbi Isaac 8:00-9:15PM Presentation and Q&A Elchonon Theological Seminary. Currently Rabbi Reiss serves as the Av Beit Din of the Chicago Rabbincal Join us for a spectacular masterclass on legal Council and a Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS. ethics featuring a Princeton Professor, Historian Mark Cohen and leading American Beth Din expert Rabbi Yona Reiss as they discuss the Professor Mark Cohen intersection of religious and civil courts, past, is a Professor Emeritus of Jewish present and future. The program will include Civilization in the Near East Studies at Professor Cohen’s research on Maimonides Princeton University. He is the author of Maimonides and the Merchants: and his formulation of Business Law in Medieval Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Egypt as well as an insiders look into the civil Islamic World. His research focuses on challenges facing American Batei Din today, the incorporation of Islamic Business law with Rabbi Reiss. Question and Answer session into works like Rambam’s Mishna Torah. with both presenters to follow. The Jewish Center 131 West 86th St, New York 10024 To register, visit www.jewishcenter.org The Martha Sonnenschein Memorial Lecture Featuring Scholar-In-Residence Ms. Raizi Chechik Shabbat, May 13 Shabbat Morning Public Lecture: 11:00AM Molten Letters: The Widow Romm and the Printing Press of Vilna The standard Biblical and Talmudic texts used throughout the world today originated in a nineteenth century Lithuanian printing company run by a brave, talented young widow. Learn her story, and the fascinating narrative of how Jewish texts evolved from the earliest printings in fifteenth century Italy to the internet databases of today. Shabbat Afternoon Shiur: 6:30PM Mother, Mystic, and Martyr: A Medieval Story Seudah Shlishit: 8:00PM Quest for Kingship: Rereading the Books of Ruth and Esther Ms. Raizi Chechik, is a principal at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett, New York. Ms. Chechik holds an MA and has done doctoral work in Jewish History. As a veteran educator, she has developed curricular materials for the Sephardic Studies Institute at the City University of New York, served as a mentor for the Principals Partnership at YU, and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the national Grinspoon Award for Excellence The Jewish Center in Jewish Education. This July Ms. Chechik will become 131 West 86th St, the Head of School at Manhattan Day School. New York 10024 Torah from Jerusalem Ohr Somayach Upper West Side Shabbaton Shabbat, May 6 Young Leadership Minyan Seudah Shlishit Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz Rabbi Dr. Yitzchok Breitowitz ‘The Journey of Life and The ‘The Two Faces of Sefirat HaOmer’ Journey From Pesach to Shavuot’ After a distinguished career as a Rav Originally from Johannesburg, in Silver Spring, Maryland and as a South Africa Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz world-renowned lecturer and rabbinic studied medicine at the University authority, Rabbi Breitowitz made of Witwatersrand. He founded the aliyah to Eretz Yisrael and joined the Jerusalem Medical Ethics Forum, of which he is Ohr Somayach faculty as a senior lecturer. He was Director, for the purpose of teaching and promoting ordained by the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in knowledge of Jewish medical ethics internationally. 1976 and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University He has written many highly acclaimed works on the and Harvard Law School (JD, 1979, Magna Cum deeper aspects of Judaism, as well as a recent books Laude). In addition to his rabbinical position, he was a on Jewish Medical ethics and Free Will & Destiny. He tenured professor of law at the University of Maryland currently lives in London, where he lectures on Jewish specializing in contracts, commercial law and thought and medical ethics for the Jewish learning medical ethics. exchange of Ohr Somayach. Israel and the International Community Scholar in Residence Yifa Segal Shabbat Afternoon, June 10 Pre-Mincha Lecture: Seudah Shlishit: The Monopoly on Human The ILF: A Behinds the Rights: How a Shift in Scenes Look at the Struggle Discourse Can Effect Policy, to Defend Israel Justice and Equality in Israel. Attorney Yifa Segal is the Director of the International Legal Forum (ILF),a global legal coalition initiating and centralizing efforts to battle anti-democratic, anti- Semitic and anti-Israeli operations around the world. Prior to 2013, Segal was a leading member of Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center’s legal team. She holds a BA in Law from the University of Haifa, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Tel Aviv. 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