The Center for Modern Torah Leadership
“Taking Responsibility for Torah”
Presents
DEEPENING FAITH
The 1st Boston Orthodox Campus Community Yom Iyyun
Sunday, Nov. 19th
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. 19th
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
To schedule a meeting with R. Katz, email akiba183@yahoo.com.
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”
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Questions about 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. |
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
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Special Guest Lecturer: Rabbi Benjamin Samuels Congregation Shaarei Tefillah; PhD. candidate in Science and Religion at BU |
12:12:15 Welcome and Framing
12:15 – 1:15
“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
