READING, REVELATION, RELATIONSHIP
Reading the Talmud for Ethics
Keynote Speaker: Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Ph.D.
Mira Wasserman’s work as a rabbi and scholar bridges Talmud study, community building and the pursuit of social justice. Mira served as rabbi of Beth Shalom in Bloomington, Indiana for over a decade and is now Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She attended rabbinical school at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, earned her doctorate at UC Berkeley, and is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship.
Her book Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press. In her current book project, she argues for drawing on rabbinic literature—and on the Talmud in particular—as a model for contemporary ethical deliberation.
HOST SYNAGOGUE FOR 2016
BNAI KESHET: Rabbi Ariann Weitzman
PARTICIPATING SYNAGOGUES
CONGREGATION BETH AHM OF WEST ESSEX: Rabbi Mark Biller & Cantor Marsha Schreier
TEMPLE NER TAMID: Rabbi Steven Kushner & Cantor Meredith Greenberg
CONGREGATION SHOMREI EMUNAH: Rabbi David Greenstein
TEMPLE SHALOM: Rabbi Laurence W. Groffman & Rabbi Emeritus Norman R. Patz
Schedule:
7:30 pm MUSICAL MAARIV SERVICE
Concurrent children's activities
8:30 pm Join together for a delightful kiddush
9:00 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS
followed by a full evening of study - details to follow
Midnight Reading of the Ten Commandments
12:30am to 2:00am Continued Strudy
