Ymei Iyyun

The Center for Modern Torah Leadership

“Taking Responsibility for Torah”

Presents

DEEPENING FAITH

The 1^st Boston Orthodox Campus Community Yom Iyyun

Sunday, Nov. 19^th

12 noon - 4 p.m at Boston University Hillel.

Join fellow undergraduates from Brandeis, Harvard, BU, MIT, Lesley and other local colleges in an exciting and open exploration of the opportunities and challenges university life offers to Orthodox belief.  Meet new friends and deepen old friendships.  Discuss the relationship between faith and reason, the challenge of Biblical Criticism, how to develop emunah (faith) while remaining open-minded, and other issues affecting your religious life with peers and an exciting and sophisticated faculty of Orthodox campus educators.  Featuring chavruta study, panel discussions, workshops, and lectures.

Tentative Speakers list

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper – Dean,  The Center for Modern Torah Leadership; Rabbinic Literature Department, Gann Academy

Rabbi Aharon Frazer -  Co- Director, Brandeis University Jewish Learning Inititiative

Mrs. Adena Frazer – Co- Director Brandeis University Jewish Learning Inititiative

“Rabbi Avi” Heller – Director of Education, Boston University Hillel

Akiva Herzfeld – Campus Coordinator, The Center for Modern Torah Leadership; Rabbinic Student, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah;

“Rabbi Avi” Poupko – Campus Rabbi, Harvard Hillel

Rabbi Joseph Polak – Executive Director, Boston University Hillel;  Yoshev Rosh, Boston Beit Din

Tentative Schedule:

12-12:15          Registration

12:15- 12:30    Keynote Address – “Deepening Faith on Campus”              

12:30 - 1:00     Roundrobin Chavruta Study – “Faith and Modernity”

1 – 1:30           Lunch; Discussion of chavruta texts

1:30 – 2:15      Panel Discussion - “Challenges and Responses”

2:15 -3:15        Choice of shiurim on specific issues or workshop on psychological approaches to deepening faith

3:15 – 4:00      Press Conference – open questions to faculty

Cost: $5 for advance registrants, $10 at the door.  Lunch is included.
To register or for more information about this program, email akiba183@yahoo.com 
For more information about The Center for Modern Torah Leadership, see www.summerbeitmidrash.org or email SBM5765@aol.com

The Center for Modern Torah Leadership

“Taking Responsibility for Torah”

presents

Orthodoxy & Pluralism

The 2nd Boston Orthodox Campus Community Yom Iyyun

Sunday, Nov. 19^th

1- 5 p.m at Harvard Hillel

Join fellow undergraduates from Brandeis, Harvard, BU, MIT, Lesley and other local colleges in an exciting and open exploration of the opportunities and challenges that pluralism offers to Orthodox belief, practice, and community.  Explore real-life issues in an open and supportive environment!  Meet new friends and deepen old friendships! 

With (tentative list)

Rabbi Aharon Frazer -  Co- Director, Brandeis University Jewish Learning Initiative

“Rabbi Avi” Heller – Director of Education, Boston University Hillel

“Rabbi Avi” Poupko – Campus Rabbi, Harvard Hillel

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz – Director of Beit Midrash Program, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper – Dean,  CMTL; Dept. of Rabbinic Literature, Gann Academy 

1:00 - 1:45  Chavruta text study – “How Should Orthodoxy Relate to the Overall Jewish Kehillah?”

1:45 - 2:05  Lunch and chavruta debriefing
2:05 - 2:20  Keynote address, R. Klapper – “Love, Responsibility, and Pluralism”

2:25 - 3:15  Pluralism in Practice: Halakhic Presentations by R. Frazer, R. Heller, R. Poupko;  Topics may include:
a.  Standing in as the tenth in a non-Orthodox minyan
b.  Whose kashrut may one rely upon?
c.  Standing up for non-observant Torah scholars or non-Orthodox rabbis

3:20  - 4:10 R. Katz – “Passing Judgment Without Passing the Ball: Can we take Torah seriously while embracing those who deny or defy Halakhah?” 
4:15 – 5:00 R. Klapper – “Lifnei Iver and Leadership:  A conceptual approach to the halakhic implications of pluralism”

Do you have questions about pluralism that you would like to see addressed at the Yom Iyyun?  Contact CMTL Campus Coordinator Akiva Herzfeld at a.herzfeld@yahoo.com!

Interested in CMTL or The Summer Beit Midrash? Visit www.summerbeitmidrash.org

R. Katz’s shiur is sponsored by YCT Rabbinical School, the Open Orthodox Yeshiva (yctorah.org). 

To schedule a meeting with R. Katz, email akiba183@yahoo.com.

Thanks to Harvard Hillel for housing the Yom Iyyun.  Thanks to The Center for Jewish Learning at BU Hillel, the Brandeis Jewish Learning Initiative, the Brandeis Orthodox Organization, and the MIT Orthodox Minyan for their participation.

The Center for Modern Torah Leadership

“Taking Responsibility for Torah”

presents

Kosher Food & Kosher Jews

A Boston Inter-Campus Inter-Denominational Yom Iyyun

Sunday, March 18th

12:00 – 4:15 p.m. at Brandeis Beit Midrash 415 South St., Waltham, MA

(Basement of Shapiro Hall – Massel Quad)

Join fellow undergraduates from Brandeis, Harvard, Lesley, MIT and Wellesley in an exciting and open exploration of the opportunities and challenges that kosher food offers to  our religious experience, as we probe the intersection of kosher food and our standards of ethics.  Explore real-life issues in an open and supportive environment!  Meet new friends and deepen old friendships!

Speakers:  

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper – Dean,  CMTL; Dept. of Rabbinic Literature, Gann Academy 

Rabbi Aharon Frazer – Co-Director, Brandeis University Jewish Learning Initiative

Guest Speakers:

Rabbi Dov Linzer –  Rosh Yeshiva, YCT Rabbinical School

Nathaniel Popper – Journalist, The Forward Newspaper

Tentative Schedule:      

12:00 - 12:30: Chavruta study – Animal pain (tzaar baalei chayim) as a factor in kosher eating.

12:30 - 1:10:  R. Linzer: – “Is veal kosher? That, and other conundrums of kosher eating.”

1:15 - 1:45: Lunch  (with vegetarian options)  

1:50 - 2:05  R. Klapper: Keynote address

2:05 -2:35 Nathaniel Popper: “The Impact of Newspaper Coverage on the kashrut industry”

2:35 – 2:45 Breakout Discussion Groups 

2:50 - 3:30  R. Klapper – “Kosher symbols as community flags” 

3:30 – 3:40 Breakout Discussion Groups
3:40 – 4:15  R. Frazer – “Food connection to Israel the land and Israel the people”

The Center for Modern Torah Leadership

“Taking Responsibility for Torah”

presents

Faith & Facts

The 4th Boston Orthodox InterCampus Community Yom Iyyun

Sunday, November 18th

12- 4 p.m. at BU Hillel (213 Bay State Road, Boston)

Join fellow undergraduates from Brandeis, BU, Harvard, Lesley, MIT and Wellesley in an exciting and open exploration of the opportunities and challenges that science and history offer to Orthodox belief, practice, and community.  Explore real-life issues in an open and supportive environment!  Meet new friends and deepen old friendships! 

Speakers: 

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper – Dean,  CMTL; Dept. of Rabbinic Literature, Gann Academy 

Rabbi Avi Heller – Director of Education, Boston University Hillel

Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld – Orthodox Rabbinic Adviser, Harvard Hillel

Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz – Co-Director, Brandeis University Jewish Learning Initiative

“Orthodoxy and Evolution:

Traditional Responses and Their Contemporary Implications”

with Rabbi Samuels

1:15 - 1:45          Lunch and chavruta text study: “Can faith depend on facts?”

1:45 – 2:45

“Does Judaism make any claims about the real world?’

with Rabbi Klapper

3:00 – 4:00        

The Relationship of Faith and Fact:

Personal Responses to Specific Challenges

with Rabbis Heller, Herzfeld, and Kaplowitz

The Center for Modern Torah Leadership and Experience at BU Hillel

invite you to a Yom Iyyun:

Judaism and Civic Engagement

Sunday, April 6th from 5:00-8:30PM

Boston University Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay State Rd

5:00: Chavruta text study featuring excerpts from “Confrontation” by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

                  and “Speech at the Polo Grounds Encouraging Participation in the March on Washington ” by

                  Rabbi Pinchas M. Teitz.

5:45: Shiur: Jewish Responsibility for Jewish Values in a Secular Democracy, Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

6:15: Facilitated discussion: “The Prayer for the Government – European and American Texts”

6:45: Mincha

7:00: Dinner (Rami's!)

7:30: Jewish and Orthodox Civic Engagement: Descriptions and Prescriptions

8:15: Maariv

Transportation costs will be reimbursed with receipts

Requested donation of $5

The closest T stop is Boston University East Station. For directions, visit

http://www.bu.edu/hillel/about/documents/BUHillelmapanddirections.pdf

Email hkapnik@wellesley.edu with questions