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March 15, 2026
Living the Seder: The Role of “Intention” in Observing the Seder Mitzvot
The Talmud famously discusses two core Seder rituals—eating maror and matzah—and asks whether fulfilling these mitzvot requires our conscious intention.... more
Dr. Shana Strauch Schick

Dr. Shana Strauch Schick

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Shana Strauch Schick is a lecturer in at Bar Ilan University in Israel. She holds a PhD from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Her first book is Intention in Talmudic Jurisprudence: Between Thought and Deed (Brill, 2021).

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April 7, 2024
The Seder Ritual and the Formation of Community: 2024, 25th Annual Rapoport Lecture
The Haggadah states that in every generation, one must see oneself as personally participating in the Exodus. How can we... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Years of Experience
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David Silber is the founder and dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in New York and Israel. Rabbi Silber received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is a recipient of the Covenant Award, for excellence in innovative Jewish education, and is the author of A Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and Learn (Jewish Publication Society 2011), For Such a Time as This: Biblical Reflections in the Book of Esther (Koren Publishers 2017), and Malkhut Adam: Iyunim Bsefer Shmuel (Maggid 2021). He is also a nationally acclaimed lecturer on the Bible. Rabbi Silber is married to Dr. Devora Steinmetz. They have eight children and live in New York City.

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March 19, 2023
The Seder Within the Passover Seder: The 2023 Rapoport Memorial Lecture
The Passover Seder, like a great play, consists of a constructed reality. It is a performed ritual, and it has... more
Rabbi Nathan Laufer
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March 14, 2021
From the Sea to Sinai: Tests of the Wilderness
Why did the Israelites complain so bitterly when they were in the Wilderness?  Did they doubt God? If God could... more
Rabbi Alex Israel

Rabbi Alex Israel

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8 Lectures

Rabbi Alex Israel teaches Tanakh at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, Midreshet Lindenbaum and Matan, and director of Community Education, Summer Programs, and the Elmad online learning platform at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Born and raised in London, Rabbi Israel moved to Israel in 1991 and received S’micha (Rabbinic ordination) from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate following several years of study at Yeshivat Har Etzion. Rabbi Israel holds degrees from London School of Economics, the Institute of Education, London, and Bar Ilan University.

His first book “I Kings – Torn in Two” was published in 2013 to great acclaim, and its companion volume “II Kings – In a Whirlwind” in 2019. Rabbi Israel has lectured widely at campuses and communities on five continents. His writings may be found at www.alexisrael.org.

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April 16, 2019
How did the Pesach Seder become a Family Affair?
This lecture will explore biblical, second temple, and rabbinic texts about how Pesach was celebrated in a diversity of ways in... more
Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Years of Experience
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Sarit Kattan Gribetz teaches rabbinic literature and Jewish Studies at Fordham University in New York City. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, studied Talmud and archaeology as a Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University, was a post-doc at Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, taught at the University of Toronto and Andover Newton Theological School, and most recently spent a year as a research fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem. She is currently completing a book titled Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism, under contract with Princeton University Press. Sarit also writes about Jews in the Roman Empire, Jewish-Christian relations, women and gender, and bringing ancient texts into contemporary classrooms. She lives in Riverdale with her husband, Jonathan, and their three children.

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March 23, 2017
Under the Sea: The Song of the Sea and the Creation Stories of the Ancient Near East
The Song of the Sea, the famed song of victory and thanksgiving recited by Moses and the Israelites after crossing the Red... more
Stu Halpern

Stu Halpern

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Stu Halpern serves on the staff and faculty of Drisha. He holds an EdD from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of Yeshiva University, an MA in Psychology in Education from Teachers College at Columbia University, an MA in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor or co-editor of 13 books, most recently Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought, and has taught at Yeshiva University, and in synagogues, Hillels, and adult educational settings throughout the US.

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April 11, 2016
Only Ten Plagues, or More?
The Hagaddah suggests that ten plagues afflicted Egypt, and fifty plagues afflicted them at the Sea. (It even suggests there... more
Rabbi Alex Israel

Rabbi Alex Israel

Years of Experience
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Rabbi Alex Israel teaches Tanakh at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, Midreshet Lindenbaum and Matan, and director of Community Education, Summer Programs, and the Elmad online learning platform at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Born and raised in London, Rabbi Israel moved to Israel in 1991 and received S’micha (Rabbinic ordination) from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate following several years of study at Yeshivat Har Etzion. Rabbi Israel holds degrees from London School of Economics, the Institute of Education, London, and Bar Ilan University.

His first book “I Kings – Torn in Two” was published in 2013 to great acclaim, and its companion volume “II Kings – In a Whirlwind” in 2019. Rabbi Israel has lectured widely at campuses and communities on five continents. His writings may be found at www.alexisrael.org.

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March 12, 2015
Love, Longing and Liberty: Reflections on Shir HaShirim
Shir HaShirim is at once the most sacred and most profane book of the Tanach, eliciting reverence and fear —... more
Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler

Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler

Years of Experience
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Erin Leib Smokler is the Director of Spiritual Development and Internship Coordinator at Yeshivat Maharat, where she teaches Chassidut and Pastoral Torah. She earned her PhD and MA from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, her BA from Harvard University, and studied in Drisha’s Scholars Circle. She previously served as Assistant Literary Editor of The New Republic magazine, and her writing has appeared there as well as in The New York Times Book Review, The Jerusalem Report, and The Jewish Week.

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March 27, 2014
The Omer Festival: Recovering a Lost Holiday and its Surprising Roots
We usually think of the Omer as a commandment to count up to fifty days as a bridge between Passover... more
David Flatto

David Flatto

Years of Experience
7 Lectures

David Flatto is an assistant professor of law, religion, and history at Penn State Law. He has a PhD in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and a JD from Columbia Law School, and received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He has written and lectured on Maimonides, Jewish legal philosophy, and the critical and historical study of rabbinics.

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