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Mining The Riches Of The ParshaBaMidbor and Shavuot - May 29, 2025This evening we discuss the famous problem of the missing and uncertain date of the Holiday of Shavuot with three new approaches from Maharal, Tzlach, and Rabbi JJ Schacter which all point to the effort we must make to prepare ourselves to celebrate Shavuot starting this Sunday night. We also explore what we can learn from groups of Jews such as Ethiopian Jews to enrich, inspire, and improve the rest of the Jewish world, based on an interview Daniel Gordis did with Dr. Marva Shalev Marom.
Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an...2025-05-3042 minMining The Riches Of The Parsha10@9 Who Makes Us Better? - June 9, 2024This morning we join Itim (a wonderful organization in Israel) and over 110 communities around the world the world speaking about the inspiration all Jews receive from those who choose to become Jewish. We focus on Ethiopian Jewry in Israel and the lessons we can all learn from this august community. This is excerpted from a longer and more complex interview by Daniel Gordis with Dr. Marva Shalev Marom, who describes a new "Israeliness" which holds great promise for Israel and the global Jewish People.
Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor...2024-06-0915 min
Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis"Inclusivity, not exclusivity, is the new pathway to genuine Israeliness"Today we mark the Memorial Day for the Israeli Ethiopian community who perished in the Ethiopian exodus to Israel in the 1980s and 90s. We do so with a conversation with Dr. Marva Shalev Marom, on whom you can read more below. Today’s focus on the Ethiopian community affords an opportunity to mention facts that deserve more attention than they’ve received. Though Ethiopian Jews represent a mere 1.5% of the Israeli population, since October 7th, at least 26 soldiers and police officers of Ethiopian descent, as well as three civilians, have been killed. That is much higher than...2024-06-0551 min
Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish EducationEpisode 26: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Jewish EducationIn this special event, authors from a recent themed issue of Journal of Jewish Education discuss their articles on race, ethnicity, and immigration in Jewish education. The issue spotlights the experiences of underrepresented individuals and serves as compelling testimony to the diverse array of Jewish experiences and identities, challenging prevailing norms about how Jewish educational spaces are designed and who benefits from them. This webinar features the following authors speaking about their papers: Hannah Kober ‘16 (Stanford University): A Fraying Connection: Israeli-American Perspectives on Diasporic Hebrew Learning Through and Beyond Jewish Education Marva Shalev Marom (The Schechter Institutes): Eat, Pray...2024-05-231h 10