Dr. Adam Ferziger will address the community three times

• at Kabbalat Shabbat: This is the History of Jacob: The Challenge of Multiple Narratives for the Same Historical Events
• at a community dinner following davenning (register below): A Blue Blood Showing Different Shades: Rav Eliezer Melamed and the Future of Israeli Orthodoxy
• and before Musaf on Shabbat morning: A Fresh Take on Hanukkah: Outside Culture and Respect for Fellow Jews 

Deadline to register for dinner: Wednesday, December 14 at noon.
Last day to receive early bird discount: Wednesday, December 7.

This Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat is sponsored by Ittai Hershman & Linda Rich and Paul & Claire Wachtel.

Professor Adam Ferziger is an intellectual and social historian whose research focuses on Jewish religious movements and religious responses to secularization and assimilation in modern and contemporary North America, Europe and Israel. He holds the Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah with Derekh Erez Movement in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, a senior associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and is co-convener of the annual Oxford Summer Institute for Modern and Contemporary Judaism. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism (Wayne State University Press, 2015), which was the winner of a 2015 National Jewish Book Award.