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2011 ·
1/23 - Davar Concert - Lucky Break 2010 · 12/10-11 – Rabbi Dr. Seth Farber o Lecture #1 – Hey, Whats going on? – Currents in contemporary Israeli psak o Lecture #2 – Why the Conversion Law is Bad for the Jews or the Future of Conversion in Israel o Lecture #3 – The Future of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel o Click here and here to download the source material
· 12/3-4 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 – Hidden Knowledge Part I: Maimonides on Shiur Komah o Lecture #2 – Flexibility and Social Order: The Medieval Esotericism Project o Lecture #3 – Knowledge Control in a Liberal Democracy: Contemporary Implications of Esotericism · 11/19-20 – Rabbi Dr Joshua Berman o Lecture #1 – Ten Chiddushim the Torah Gave World o Lecture #2 – Archeology and Avodat Hashem o Lecture #3 – God the Economist · 10/29-30 - Professor Warren Zev Harvey o Topic - The Philosophy of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas, 600 years after his death o Lecture #1 - Rabbi Nissim of Girona on Isaac's Marriage and Constitutional Jewish Kings o Lecture #2 - Rabbi Hasdai Crescas' Critique of Aristotle and Maimonides o Lecture #3 - Rabbi Hasdai Crescas' Theory of Love · 10/9 – Moshe Halbertal · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · 8/28 – Professor Paul Franks o Lecture #1 – Divine Sovereignty and Self-Rule: From Rosh ha-Shanah to Yom Kippur · 7/31 – Judith Schulevitz · 7/23-24 – Rabbi Ethan Tucker o Lecture #1 - History/Community: How halakhah ought to and could interact with the Jewish community on the ground o Lecture #2 - Philosophy/Theology: Who is the God who stands behind this halakhah and how are we to understand the relationship between halakhah and the pursuit of the good? o Lecture #3 - Law: Exploring category shifts as the most powerful and conservative form of halakhic development · 6/25 – Rabbi Daniel Sperber o Lecture #1 - Rabbi Sperber will discuss his new book: "Women and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives" - published by JOFA. · 6/11-12 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 – On the Construction of the Sugya: Law and Ethics in Kiddushin 59 o Lecture #2 – Jewish Identity and the Conversion Crisis: A Text Study o Lecture #3 – Talmud Torah, Hatmada and the Modern Jew · 6/5 – Rabbi David Bigman o Lecture #1 – Changes in Social Structure In Sefer B'Midbar: What Can be Learned? o Lecture #2 – The Discrepancies in the Law of the First Born: Dealing with Biblical Criticism with Sincerity o Lecture #3 – Changes in the Procedure of Divorce: From Scripture to Talmud · 5/21-22 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 – Autonomy and Religious Coercion in the Rambam o Lecture #2 – Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi and the Art of Kalam - A Comment on Hillel Halkin o Lecture #3 – Authority and Autonomy - An Ethical Perspective · 5/8 – Dr. Alan Brill – on his book "Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding" o Article on Brill’s book signing - http://njjewishnews.com/article/lifetimes/a-rabbi-explores-how-jews-view-other-religions · 5/5 – Davar Book Club – Tamar Ross’ book ‘ “Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism” – discussion facilitated by Rabbi Tully Harcsztark · 4/25 – Hillel Halkin – speaking about his book · 4/16-17 – Professor Marc Shapiro o Lecture #1 – Was R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik a Zionist? o Lecture #2 – R. Isaac Herzog: A Chief Rabbi to Remember o Lecture #3 – R. Shlomo Goren: The Revolutionary Chief Rabbi o Lecture #4 – The Philosophy of Rav Kook: Is it Still Relevant? · 3/12-13 – Dr. Tamar Ross o Lecture #1 - What do we mean when we talk about God? o Lecture #2 - On the need to develop a more viable theology of revelation o Lecture #3 - The Feminist Contribution to Halakhic Discourse: Kol be-Isha Erva as a Test Case · 1/29-30 – Dr. Devora Steinmetz 2009 · 12/11-12 – Rabbi David Silber o Topic: Reading the Bible o Core text: Yehuda and Tamar · 11/20-21 – Professor Jeremy Dauber o Lecture #1 – The Tale of The She-Demon o Lecutre #2 – The Stories of Nachman of Bratslav o Lecture #3 – The Last Demon and Gimpel the Fool o Click here to access the Source Sheet · 11/6-7 – Judy Klitsner · 9/26 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 - Sin and Choice in Modern Orthodox Life: An Anthropology of "Aveyra" · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashana · 7/29 – Tisha B’Av – tfilah and reading of Eicha o Rabbi Tully Harcsztark will be laining Eicha in addition to speaking after mariv · 7/16 – Rabbi David Ellenson o Lecture #1 - The Character of Modern Orthodox Judaism: A 19th Century Hungarian Text and its Implications for Jewish Religious Understanding Today. · 6/27 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 - Tinok she'nishba: The Making of a Halakhic Idea · 6/12-13 – Dr. Joshua Halberstam o Lecture #1 - Jewish Law and Supererogation (lifnim Meshurat Hadin) and contemporary Moral Theory o Lecture #2 - The concept of "taintedness" in Jewish Law o
Lecture #3 - What makes for a true Chassid? The
major schools of Chassidic · 6/6 – Erev Shira o We will be singing popular Israeli songs from the 1940s through modern times, including songs of Noami Shemer, Yoram Gaon, and Erik Einstein, to name a few. Avi Unyck and Lilach Koch, two very talented Israeli performers, will be leading the event. · 4/25 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 - Can Rambam and Ramban Both Be Right? The Notion of "Essentially Contested Concepts" · 4/8 – join Davar to Celebrate Birkat HaChamah in Central park · 3/20-21 – Rabbi Seth Farber o Lecture #1 – o Lecture #2 – Dilemmas in troubleshooting the Israeli rabbinate: a review of some interesting piskei din, an honest assessment of where things are and some of the material conflicts. o Lecture #3 – How to prove you are Jewish? the intersection of Halacha and ideology - an analysis of some texts about this topic (particularly, Menshe klein's teshuva about this in mishneh halachot) in light of the NY TImes piece on ITIM last year. · 2/22 – Rabbi Joseph Telushkin o
About his new book: A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume
2: Love Your Neighbor as · 1/23-24 – Rabbi Dr. Harel Gordon o Lecture #1 – HEBREW - The Chumra for 'Ba'alei Nefesh': The Audience as a Factor in the Establishment of Halakhic Norms o Lecture #2 – Procreation, Sexuality and the Modern Family in Contemporary Psak Halakha o Lecture #3 – HEBREW - Hospice Care, Medical Ethics and Halakha 2008 · 12/19-20 – Rabbi David Silber o Theme: Remembering Joseph · 12/5-6 – Professor Michael Fishbane o Theme: Sacred Attunement · 11/22 – Professor Michael Segal o Theme: Lost and Found: Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period o Lecture #1 – Is God Good? An Ancient Retelling of the Aqedah in the Book of Jubilees o Lecture #2 – Corrupt Judges in the Diaspora: The Story of Susanna · 11/15 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 - The Vestibule (Avot Chapter 4 Mishna 22) · 10/30-11/1 – Moshe Halbertal o Theme: Jewish Responses to Tragedy o Lecture #1 – Baruch Dayan Emet: Coping and Acceptance o Lecture #2 - Maimonides' Conception of Mourning – read Rambam Hilkhot Avel o Lecture #3 - The Mourner, the Excommunicated and the Social Condition · 10/25 – Professor Danny Statman o Theme: Halakhah and Morality: A Few Methodological Considerations o Lecture #1 - Creation man/woman in the image of God and the basis for Jewish ethics o Lecture #2 - Revisiting halakha and morality o Lecture #3 - Can Jews be halakhically married even though not k'dat moshe ve'yisrael? · 10/4 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · 6/14 – Erev Shira – an evening of Israeli Music – Shira Bitzibur @ Davar · 2/8-9 – Professor James Kugel o Theme: The two sanctuaries of Judaism · 2/3 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 - Halakha in the Real World: The Establishment of the State of Israel Part II · 1/26 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Lecture #1 - Halakha in the Real World: The Establishment of the State of Israel 2007 · 12/14-15 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Theme: Theology and Hermeneutics: On the Role of Interpretation in Judaism o Lecture #1 - Chazal and Interpretation: An Introductory Comment o Lecture #2 - What Were They Thinking? Contemporary Approaches to Midrash Halakha o Lecture #3 - Implications for Teaching and Learning Gemara · 12/8 – Rabbi David Silber o King and Temple o Source: last chapter of Samuel 2, chapter 24 · 12/1 – Professor Michael Fishbane o Theme: Biblical Interpretation: Rethinking Revelation and Tradition, Past and Present § Lecture #1 – Opening Questions § Lecture #2 – Inner-Biblical Exegesis – Examples and Implications § Lecture #3 – Psalms: Text study and closing comments · 11/3 – Professor Moshe Halbertal o Lecture #1 - What is humility (anava) o Lecutre #2 - What is faith (emuna) o Lecture #3 - What is holiness (kedusha) · 10/20 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark o Lecture #1 - Cultural Capital and Modern Orthodoxy · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · 7/6-7 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark o Lecture #1 - An Important Medieval Debate on Interpretation o Lecture #2 - Talmud Torah and Liberal Education: On Articulating Our Interpretive Commitments o Lecture #3 - Judaism and the Capitalist Idea: A Look at Biblical Economics · 6/29 – Wendy Amsellem o Lecture #1 – God’s Concubine; or, What’s So Special About Bilaam, Anyway? · 6/15–16 – Dr. Simi Chavel o Theme: “dibrah Torah kilshon bney adam” and “ein mikra yotzeh miydey peshuto” o Lecture #1 – God’s Aweseom Face o Lecture #2 – The Literary Quality of Biblical Law o Lecture #3 – From High God to Only God: Mizmor 82 · 6/2 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Law and Narrative: Philosophy of Halakha and the Response to Modernity o Source Sheet: http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss8/Cover_Nomos.pdf Page 40-54 · 5/19 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Elaborate on and clarify the distinction between Rabbi Soloveitchik and Professor Hartman as to how they view the relationship between Halakha, society and redemption à will reference Professor Robert Cover's understanding of Jewish law as a model for American law o Source Sheet: http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss8/Cover_Nomos.pdf pages 4-19; 33-40. · 5/12 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Law and Narrative: Philosophy of Halakha and the Response to Modernity · 4/20-21 – Rabbi Seth Farber o Theme: Confrontation Modernity -- New Halachot emerging out of the Rabbinical Courts in Israel o Lecture #1 - Two models of halachic decision making and their implications o Lecture #2 - Confronting modernity and embracing it: innovative decisions from the Israeli rabbinical courts o Lecture #3 - Destruction and Redemption: The uses of a biblical narrative (with some comments on the methodology of biblical study) · 3/9-10 – Blu Greenberg o Lecture #1 – “American Jewish Responsibility to Israel” o Lecture #2 – “Rabbinic Will, Halakhic Way” o Pre-mincha talk: Sorin Rosen – about the Jewish Community in Romania, the challenges that developed under Ceausescu, the current situation, and hopes for the future o Lecture #3 – “The Jewish Family in the 21st Century” · 2/23-24 – Raphi Jospe o Lecture #1 - Fundamentalism: A Jewish Perspective (including the concept of "Da'at Torah"). o Lecture #2 - The Bible and Philosophy (or: Reading the Bible Philosophically). Focuses on Ibn Ezra, and compares Ibn Ezra and Mendelssohn on Bible criticism) o Lecture #3 - Rambam on the Ideal Life: The Vita Contemplativa vs. the Vita Activa (shows how Rambam creates a Jewish synthesis of opposing trends in Greek, Rabbinic and Arabic sources) · 2/8-9 – Susan Weiss o Lecture #1 – “Gitten, Agunot and Rabbinic Courts: A View from Inside: Legal Responses to Get Recalcitrance” o Lecture #2 – “Gitten, Agunot and Rabbinic Courts: A View from Inside: Interpretative Strategies of Rabbinic Court Pleaders” o Lecture # 3 – “Jewish Law and the New Reproductive Technology” – Moot Court presentation facilitated by Dr. Gila Leiter and presented by Yardena Cope-Yossef and will, among other issues, discuss the Article by Yitzhak Breitowitz in Tradition (1996 Fall; 31(1):64-91)"Halakhic approaches to the resolution of disputes concerning the disposition of preembryos". · 2/3 – Yeshivat Maaleh Gilboah Teaneck-wide community shabbaton o Rav Yehuda Gilad – Lecture #1 – “New Approaches to Textual Understanding” 2006 · 12/15-16 – Rabbi David Silber o Lecture #1: Did Saul have to fail? o Lecture #2: Reading the bible - David and Batsheva o Lecutre #3: David and Batsheva - sin and consequence · 12/2 – Professor Moshe Halbteral o Lecture #1 - Halacha ve-Agada: Law and Narrative in the Talmud o Lecture #2 - Values and Interpretation in the Talmud: The Spectacle of Execution o Lecture #3 - Editorial Structures and Theological Concerns: Mishnah and the Talmud of Chapter 9 Berachot · 11/11 – Rock B’Davar – Simply Tsfat · 11/10-11 – Professor Marc Shapiro o Lecture #1 - "The Limits of Orthodox Theology: A Case Study" o Lecture #2 - "Subjectivity and the Role of Values in Halakhah" o Lecutre #3 - "Is Historical Truth an Orthodox Value" · 10/21 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark o Lecture #1 - The Anthropology of Creation o Lecture #2 - Tzelem elokim as a radical idea o Lecture #3 - Divine interventionYom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · 9/8-9 – Tobi Kahn o Lecture #1 "Art as Prayer" o Lecture #2 "Art as a Key Modality in Jewish Education" o Lecture #3 "Jewish Art History: course #201 - a follow-up to Tobi's last visit, and his "show and tell" intro to Jewish art appreciation" · 3/18 – ArtWorks, The Naomi Cohain Foundation --> www.artworksfoundation.org o BLUE FRINGE Benefit Concert · 3/11 – Rabbi Yonatan Wolf o Lecture #1: “The Essence of Jewish Motivation” - What is it that presses Esther to go before the king? What is it that moves a soldier forward into battle? What is it that prompts talented young people to leave Jerusalem for a disadvantaged town in the Negev? · 2/11 - Film Series o DIVIDED WE FALL (Czech Republic, 2000) o Jan Hrebejk presents us with an absorbing look at War-torn Central Europe in his study of a small Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakian town, where the occupying forces bring change and corruption into an otherwise civilized and quiet community. Josef and Marie just want to live their life, when they are confronted with the question of how to react when a Jewish acquaintance who escapes the camps surfaces in town. With Bolek Polívka and Anna Sisková. · 2/11 – Aryeh Wiener - Joshua · 2/10-11 – Jerome A. Chanes o Lecture #1 - Antisemitism in America and Europe: Is there a "New" Antisemitism? o Lecture #2 - A Single People Divided by a Common Religion: Fault-Lines and Fissures in Within the Denominations of American Jewish Religion -A Historian's Analysis. o Lecture #3 - Contemporary Hallachic Responses to Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Cases of the Netziv and Rav Hutner. · 1/14 – Film Series o Dr. Eric Goldman § FOCUS (USA, 2001) § Director Neil Slavin based his first film on an early novel by famed playwright and provocateur Arthur Miller. This allegorical story, concerns a personnel manager, Lawrence Newman, living in New York City during World War II. His life changes abruptly after buying a pair of glasses which make him appear 'Jewish' to those around him. People at his work and in his neighborhood begin to shun him. In a state of perpetual confusion he loses his job, gets married, and continues to be plagued by exclusion and threats. The film identifies the dangers of exclusionary patriotism and prejudice and may strike a chord today as well. · 1/14 - Aryeh Wiener – Deuteronomy · 1/13 – Dr. Eli Kranzler as Chazan In Residence 2005 · 12/17 – Film Series o Dr. Eric Goldman § TIME OF FAVOR (Hahesder) (Israel, 2001) § The film weaves an intricate tale of passion, loyalty and conspiracy about a highly respected Orthodox soldier in the Israel Defense Forces who is also a devout student of a controversial West Bank settlement rabbi. Joseph Cedar is one of a group of American-born Israeli directors, with a traditional Jewish upbringing, who use the cinema as a means to examine how Jewish and Israeli values often intersect and sometimes conflict with each other. With Assi Dayan, Aki Avni and Tinkerbell. · 12/16-17 – Avi Walfish · 12/9-10 – Rabbi David Silber o Lecture #1 - Jacob in Exile o Lecture #2 - Jacob and Covenantal suffering o Lecture #3 - Coming home · 12/3 – Herb Keinon · 11/18-19 – Dr. Josef Stern o Lecture #1 - Rambam's attack on traditional interpretations of the Aqedah o Lecture #2 - Rambam's two interpretations of the Aqedah o Lecture #3 - On Qedushah: Rambam and Ramban · 10/28-29 – Rabbi Steve and Judy Klitsner o Lecture #1 - "B'reshit 4:7" (Shmuel Klitsner) o Lecture #2 - "The Three Faces of Woman: Struggles with God and with Man" (Judy Klitsner) o Lecture #3 - "The Dialogue Between Orthodox Feminist Activists and Halakhists: Philosophical Models and their Practical Implications" (Shmuel Klitsner) · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · 8/28 – Tanglewood in Teaneck #6 The Last Horah! · 7/9 – Aryeh Wiener - Numbers · 4/9 - LBK Benefit Concerts to Benefit Project Ezrah – specifically the Seidenfeld Family Fund · 4/8-9 – Rabbi Chaim Rapoport o Lecture #1 - “Judaism and Homosexuality” o Lecture #2 - “A Shiur on Halakhah, Non-Jews and the Problem of Recent Virulent Texts” o Lecture #3 - “Chumrah and the Jews” · 3/19 – Aryeh Wiener- Leviticus · 3/12 – Rabbi Jeremy Wieder o Lecture #1 - How Old Do We Believe the World Is? The Non-Literal Interpretation of Scripture, the Story of Creation and the Controversy over the Works of Nosson Slifkin. o Lecture #2 - The Study of Tanakh and the Ancient Near East: Does Torah sheBikhtav Have a Historical Context? A lecture on the use of Ancient Near Eastern materials by Orthodox Jews studying Bible. · 2/26 – Rabbi Dovid Silber o Lecture #1 - Parsha o Lecture #2 - Rachel, part I o Lecture #3 - Rachel, part II · 2/18-19 – Rabbi Dr. Daniel Statman o Lecture #1 - Refusing Orders: Conscientious Objection in Israel, 2005 o Lecture #2 - Religion and Morality – Preliminaries o Lecture #3 - Jewish/Gentile relations in US and Israel: problems and educational challenges (Daniel Statman and Eugene Korn) · 2/12 – Aryeh Wiener- Exodus o Rock B’Davar – Reva L’Sheva · 2/5 – Dr. Tamar Ross o Lecture #1 - "R. Kook on Jewish Messianism and Jewish nationalism" to be presented by Rabbi Yakov Ross o Lecture #2 - "The Role of Doubt in Religious Belief" presented by Dr. Tamar Ross o Lecture #3 - Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism: Dr. Tamar Ross summary and discussion of Dr. Tamar Ross's recent book and reaction to it, including a very interesting exchange between a reviewer/critic of the book and her response, · 1/22 – Judy Klitsner o Lecture #1 - “Mysterious Priests, Troubled Patriarchs and the Chosenness of Israel” o Lecture #2 - “Women, Individuality and Redemption” o Lecture #3 - “Prophets in Crisis: Sacrificing the World, Sacrificing the Soul” · 1/8 – Aryeh Wiener - Genesis 2004 · 12/18 – LBK Benefit Concert to Benefit the Koby Mandell Foundation · 12/18 – Aryeh Wiener – The Book of Job · 12/11 – Aryeh Wiener – The Book of Job · 12/4 – Aryeh Wiener – The Book of Job · 11/13 – Aryeh Wiener – The Book of Job · 11/5-6 – Rabbi Natan Greenberg o “A Breslovian spin on the Parsha” o “The Power of Prayer: a textual workshop” “Reb Nachman's "The Master of Prayer: A Story"” · 10/30 – Rock B’Davar – Seth Nadel · 10/22-23 – Rabbi Seth Farber o “Reproach, Recognition or Respect: Rabbi Joseph Soloveichik and the Relationship of Orthodoxy and the Non Orthodox Movements” o “Jewish Life in Israel: Shattered Hopes and Future Promise” · Yom Kippur · Rosh Hashanah · 6/26 – Rock B’Davar – Big Blue Accident, Jews4jews, David Ross · 6/4-5 – Tobi Kahn o "Being a Visual Person: Growing up as an Artist in an Orthodox Community" o "BIZBUZ - Wasting a Talent: The Imperative of Creating Art in the Jewish Community" o "Diversity in Art: Different ways Jews express their Jewishness in Art" · 5/22 – Aryeh Wiener – Book of Job · 5/16 – Professor David Hartman o "Critical Reflections on the Significance of Israel for the Future of the Jewish People." · 5/7-8 – Rabbi Natan Laufer o "The Hidden Pattern of the Ten Commandments in TaNaKh," o "A Subversive reading of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai," mariv, havdalah · 4/23-24 - Blue Greenberg o Modern orthodox Jewish feminism and the parsha o Modern orthodox Jewish feminism: Should Teaneck Care? o Authentic Spirituality for a Modern Orthoprax: Are we still searching for meaning? · 3/21 – Rock B’Davar – Sandy Cash · 2/28 - Rock B’Davar – Neshama Carlebach · Spring 04 – Professor Jonathan Sarna Davar Author Series · 2/28 – Dr. Menachem Kahana o "Confrontation between the Bible and Sages Values: Two Tannaitic Doctrines." (lecture will be in Hebrew) · 2/6-7 – Dr. Tova Hartman o
"Varieties of Restorative Feminism: is Modern
Orthodoxy merely o "Facing the Legacy of the Canon: Three models of textual interpretation including Jewish Tradition and Freud" o “Shira Hadasha : reflections from the back stage of a community in the making" · 1/24 – Aryeh Weiner – Book of Job · 1/16-17 – Dr. Noam Zohar – o Deciphering a Chapter of Mishnah: Kiddushin 1 – Marriage, Acquisition and Mitsvot (text: 1st chapter of Mishnah Kiddushin) o Deciphering a Chapter of Tosefta: Bava Metsia 11 – Two Approaches in Political Philosophy (text: chapter 11 of Tosefta BM (a bit long); here it would be good to also have the relevant chapters of the Mishnah, BM 10 & BB 1) o Feminism and Halakhah: The Scope of the Challenge · 1/10 – Aryeh Weiner – Book of Job 2003 · 12/19-20 – Professor David Hazony o Morality and Halacha in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits (text: Chapter 1 of "Essential Essays") o Does Judaism Need Zionism? Berkovits on National Sovereignty (text: Chapter 13 of "God, Man, and History") o Archaeology, the Bible, and the Future of our Jewish Past (text: http://www.azure.org.il/16-editors.htm) · 12/31 – Rock B’Davar - "The King David String Ensemble" · 12/5-6 - Shabbaton with the students and faculty of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah o Rabbi Yissoscher Katz - "Nes Chanukah: The esoteric & the exoteric." o Sam Feinsmith - "Chassidus, Chinuch, and Chanukah" o Nissan Antine – “A literary analysis of ‘Mai Chanukah’; inspired editor or random compiler?” o Zev Farber – “Historical vs. Rabbinic Chanukah: Contradiction or Synthesis?” o Rabbi Dov Weiss – “The current challenges for Modern Orthodoxy” · 11/25 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 11/18 – Davar Author Series – Howard Blum, author of “The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War.” · 11/18 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 11/14-15 – Carlebach Yahrzeit Shabbaton with Rabbi Sammy Intrator · 11/11 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 11/5 – Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz – co-sponsored by Davar and Congregation Rinat Yisrael · 11/4 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 10/6 – Yom Kippur – Tfila at Davar · 9/26-28 – Rosh Hashana – Tfila at Davar · 9/19-20 – Professor Menachem Kelner o "Halakhic answers to non-Halakhic Questions? Rambam and Halevi on Da'at Torah" o "With Whom was Rambam Arguing? -- His Critique of the Jewish Culture of his Day” o "Must a Jew Believe Anything?" o Notes for the lecture: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAVAR/files/M.%20Kellner%20material/ · 9/14 – Davar is honored to be among the many fine organizations sponsoring the LISHMAH day of learning. LISHMAH will include over 125 torah teachers, ranging from artists, professors, musicians, writers, rabbis and scholars. · 9/11 – Rabbi Michael Melchior – Halacha, Judaism, Pluralism, and Democracy and their compatibility and interactvity in a Jewish state · 9/6 - "Simply Tsfat" Shabbat · 8/23 – Rock B’Davar o Blue Fringe with Dov Rosenblatt · 6/28 – Rabbi Steven Klitsner o the philosophy of Halakha relating to the relationship between pluralism/relativism and committment. i.e- can there be absolute commitment to something that could have been otherwise · 6/25 – Rabbi Chaim Brovender - "Is there a place for the study of fine arts in the Day School curriculum?" · 6/21 – Rabbi Yosef Leibowitz - "The Hidden Book of the Bible:Bamidbar 10:35-36" o Rivy Poupko Kletenik - "Conversations with the Other: Yesterday's Texts meet Today's Reality" · 5/31/03 – Prof. Aviezer Ravitsky o "Mitzvah and Ethical Imperative.” – LECTURE WILL BE IN HEBREW o "Zionism and Messianism." · 5/28 – Professor David Hartman - · 5/17 – Rabbi Tully Harcsztark o Halakha, Liberalism and Public Space: Medievals and Moderns. o Values and Psak Halakha: The Case of Rambam's Iggeret Hashmad. · 4/26 – Dr. Adam Ferziger o Between Religious Extremism and Religious Law: An Orthodox Case Study of Rabbi Hayyim Sofer" - based on an article accepted for the JOURNAL OF RELIGION (University of Chicago) · 4/5 – Rabbi Nathan Laufer o "F3 : revealing the hidden codes of the Passover Seder" o "The forgotten jug: why we really count the omer" · 3/28 – Rabbi Martin Lockshin o Why Peshat of Narrative in the Torah is Dangerous o Why Peshat of Legal Texts of the Torah is Dangerous o Does Peshat Lead to Biblical Criticism? · 2/8 – Prof. Yehuda Gellman o "The Izbicer, Harold Bloom, and Contemporary Jewish Unbelief." § This will not be about Orthodox unbelief, but about the great preponderance of unbelief in the Jewish people. The talk will be informal and be more the raising of an issue than a formal presentation. o "Reb Nachman: The Akedah as a Divine Comedy." § This very unconventional interpretation of the Akedah, based on a story by Reb Nachman, will address the comic aspect of serving God. It will be a provocative critique of both Leibowitz and Hartman, and present a "third way" with the Akedah. o "Modern Orthodoxy Facing Feminist Theology: A Proposal." · 2/1 – Rabbi Mayer Lichtenstein – Borei Minei Mezonot · 1/27 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 1/26 – Rabbi David Silber - "Nation building in sefer Shemot." · 1/20 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 1/14 – Davar Author Series: Melvin Jules Bukiet – author of “Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors” · 1/13 - Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill · 1/11 – Prof. Suzanne Last Stone o “Communal versus Rabbinic Authority - The OU Commission” in a conversation with Gary Rosenblatt, Editor of The Jewish Week o
“The Realm of Torah and the Realm of Politics:
Derashot o “Responses to Terrorism: Biblical and Rabbinic Views on Collective Punishment” · 1/6 – Meditation with Dr. Alan Brill 2002 · 12/14 – Prof. Daniel Lasker o "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Long Life of the Ancients in Medieval Jewish Philosophy." o "Nature of the Jewish people: R. Judah Halevi and the Rambam" o "Proving the truth of Judaism: R. Judah Halevi and the Rambam" · 12/7 – Stephen P. Cohen - “The triangle of our future: Israel, America and the Arab World or How to achieve peace.” · 11/25 – Davar Author Series: Ms. Altie Karper, Editor of Schocken Books and author Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch · 11/22 – Prof. Aron Shemesh o "Law and Theology in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Love, Marriage and Resurrection of the Dead." o The origins and development of "Kriyat Shma" o The Rabbinic Midrash in light of the findings of the Dead Sea Scrolls. o Notes for the lecture: go to www.efax.com and download the free software package. then go to the davar site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAVAR/files/ click on the 2 files for A. Shemesh and after downloading, they should open in the "efax" software. · 11/2 – Ms. Rachel Keren – “On the Days of Rabbi Tanchuma: The Talmid Chacham as Educator.” · 10/29 – Joseph Berger, deputy education editor of the New York Times – speaking about his book "Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust" · 10/5 – Saturday Night - Rav Yehuda Gilad - "Akedat Ishmael" -Moral Values in Times of Conflicts—he will also speak about his current views as a Member of the Israeli Parliament and representative of the Meimad Party. · 10/4 – Dr. Moshe Halbteral – o "Contemporary challenges to Jewish education” o
"Rashbi in the Cave: Scholars and the World” ·
7/27 – Dr.
Nahum Sarna - "The return of the Jews from exile at o Notes for the lecture: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAVAR/files/3c74dc5.exe · 7/13 – Professor Menachem Ben Sasson o Theme: "The Social and Intellectual Boundaries of Heresy" o Lecture Topic: "Maimonides as Heretic?” o Lecture Topic: "Karaites: Inside or Outside?" · 6/7 – Rabbi David Bigman o
“The Crisis of Jewish Identity in Coming Home from o " A Talmud Shiur using the Historical-Critical Method" o
"Flipping out: The Perils of our High School
Graduates · 5/16 – Shavuout All-Star Lineup o Lawrence Kaplan - "Revelation and kabbalat ha-torah according to Maimonides" o Alan Brill - "Black Fire on White Fire: Reading the Biblical Text as a product of Revelation in the Thought of Maimonides, Nahmanides, and Zohar." o Rabbi Tully Harczstark - "Nitkatnu HaDorot: Jewish Views on Progress" · 4/20 - Rabbi Dov Linzer – “Between Jew and Jew, Jew and Non-Jew, and Man and Woman.” Theme o “Are Some Lives More Equal than Others?: Saving the Life of a Non-Jew on Shabbat” o “Purchasing a Wife” - To analyze the sugya from a lomdus perspective and then from an academic, source-critical, historical perspective and show how these two approaches can be reinforcing rather than at odds. B. The topic itself is of inherent interest - the evolution of the institution of marriage from kinyan to kiddushin, from bride-price to ketuva, from woman as chattel to woman as person. o Notes for the lectures: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAVAR/files/v2%20Love%20thy%20neighbor.pdf · 4/19 – Friday Night dinner followed by lecture by Rabbi Dov Linzer – “Does it Really Matter if You Are an Apikores?: Dogma and Jewish Status” ·
3/9 – Dr.
Moshe Halbertal – "Interpretative Revolutions in Rabbinic · 3/6 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark – preparatory session for Dr. Moshe Halbteral lectures · 1/12 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark – “Tradition, Culture and the Nature of Interpretation.” - We will contrast two understandings of tradition by considering Jewish texts against the background of contemporary theories of interpretation. 2001 · 9/2 – Tanglewood in Teaneck #4 · 6/30 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark - "Law, Language or Learning?: Thoughts on Talmud Torah". · 5/19 – Dr. Eugene Korn – “Floors and Ceilings: Halakhah and Ethical Life.” · 5/5 – Dr. Alan Brill – “Do Jews have a Conscious?” · Wed in Mar 2001 – Shiur by Rabbi Tully Harczstark o "Problematizing Halakha in Modern Society: Four Twentieth Century Approaches" - We will study the philosophy of Halakha 1) as reflected in the writings of Hazon Ish2) as reflected in the writings R. Soloveichik; 3) as analyzed in the scholarly writings of Moshe Halbertal and Avi Sagi; 4) and in the rejuvenation of Maimonidean studies and its importance in this regard. We are comparing the four approaches and showing how they are responding to the same 20th century problematic. · 2/17 - Dr. Tamar Ross - "Rav Kook's understanding of the role of doubt in religious belief". · 1/27 – Rabbi Tully Harczstark – Shabbat shiur and tefilah 2000 · 9/3 - Tanglewood in Teaneck 3: The Upshearin Concert - Featuring Neshama Carlebach · Tue in Nov 2000 – Shiur by Rabbi Tully Harczstark o "Faith and Doubt: A Reappraisal" - We will continue to explore notions of faith in Judaism against the background of the general culture. Beginning with Dr. Lamm's classic essay, we will study Rambam, Rav Nachman, Rav Kook, and Rav Dessler. Through analysis of certainty, skepticism and probability, he will attempt to show how the same terms have subtly different meanings for different intellectual cultures and how this can impact on contemporary faith and doubt.
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