Scholar-in-Residence: Rabba Sara Hurwitz
November 7-8, Shabbat Vayera
This Shabbaton is lovingly sponsored by Brenda and Harold Walt
in memory of Brenda’s parents Cynthia “Toeks” Plax z”l and Jack Plax z”l.

Friday Night, November 7:

Friday Night Dinner at 5:45 PM - Register here by Monday, November 3.

followed by Oneg Shabbat at 7:15 PM (all invited): The Things That Are Hard to Read: Do we have a moral obligation to read Eli Sharabi’s book, “Hostage?” When does a decision to not read an unbearable testimony cross from self-preservation into indifference? Talmudic debates about walls reveal when boundaries protect us and when they seal us off from the cries we most need to hear.

Shabbat, November 8:

Shabbat Morning Drasha: Radical Kindness

Motzei-Shabbat Melave Malka at 6:45 PM: The Future of Orthodox Female Leadership: Fireside chat with Rabba Sara Hurwitz and Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky. Graciously hosted by Brenda and Harold Walt. RSVP here.

Rabba Sara Hurwitz is the first woman to be publicly ordained as an Orthodox rabbi. She is the Co-founder and President of Yeshivat Maharat and has served on the Rabbinic staff at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale - The Bayit since 2003.