Scholar-in-Residence
Darkhei Noam hosts two to three scholar-in-residence weekends each year. During a Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat, our scholar will typically speak three times: on Friday night following Kabbalat Shabbat, on Shabbat morning before Mussaf, and at our community lunch.We strive to ensure that our Scholars in Residence present our community with a wide range of topics.
5785 Scholars-in-Residence Schedule
The Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) Committee is delighted to announce the upcoming Shabbat events.
March 8- Shmuly Yanklowitz is a rabbi and activist who has founded a number of human rights and social justice organizations.In 2012 and 2013, Newsweek listed him as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America.
For more information about Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz and Uri L'Tzedek, please click here.
Friday Kabbalat Shabbat:
The Gladiator Games: Torah raises us above the Fray of Popular Debate
The American political discourse is broken. So what do we do now?
Shabbat D'var Torah:
You Don't Belong Here! A Theology for the Stranger
Who is the ultimate stranger and what do we morally owe them?
SIR Luncheon (ONLY for luncheon attendees)- register here
Is God Dead?
It seems there may just be too much suffering to believe in a living benevolent God. Is it truly even possible to believe still? And does it matter?
Sponsored by:
Michael, Debbie and Isaac Blumenthal In honor of Shmuly Yanklowitz and his wonderful organization to which he has given his heart and soul.
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Aviva and Noam Lockshin with gratitude to Rabbi Shmuly and the Yanklowitz Family for their ethical leadership.
June 14- Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld is a Rabbinic Fellow of the David Hartman Center. She serves as Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria, the innovative online database and interface for Jewish texts.
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Previous Speakers
5784: David Zvi Kalman, Deborah Sacks Mintz, Magda Teter
5783: Ben Sommer, Adam Ferziger, Michal Raucher, Judy Klitsner
5780: Mark Weitzman
5779: Talya Fishman, Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, Samuel Heilman, Marcie Lenk, Ethan Tucker.
5778: Steven Cohen, Shulem Deen, Herzl Hefter, Ilana Ruskay-Kidd, Anat Sharbat, Yael Zerubavel
5777: Leora Batnitzky, James Diamond, Moshe Halbertal, Christine Hayes, Alan Mintz,
5776: Lynn Kaye, Sharon Koren, Yehuda Levy-Aldema, Asher Lopatin
5775: Gal Beckerman, Yaffa Epstein, Lynn Kaye, Gary Rendsburg
5774: Hasia Diner, Shai Held, Sam Kassow, Judy Klitsner, Lucette Lagnado, Dani Segal, Jacob Wright
5773: James Diamond, Debra Kaplan, Yehuda Mirsky, Hindy Najman
5772: Jeremy Dauber, Gila Keltenick