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December 14, 2025
The Hidden Lights: Hanukkah in the Teachings of Sefat Emet
In his teachings on Chanukkah, and for the weeks of parshiyot Vayeshev and Miketz, the Sefat Emet deals with deep... more
Rabbanit Yael Shimoni

Rabbanit Yael Shimoni

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Rabbanit Shimoni has learned at Migdal Oz, Matan, and the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute for Halakhic Leadership at Midreshet Lindenbaum. She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and a BEd in Torah Shebe’al Peh and Jewish Thought from Herzog College. She is currently studying towards an MA in Jewish Thought Education at Herzog College. Rabbanit Shimoni taught gemara and halakha at Pelech High School and served as a ramit for shana bet at Migdal Oz. She directs Meshivat Nefesh, the online responsa program of the rabbaniyot of Beit Hillel. She is also a plastic artist and member of “A Studio of Her Own.

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November 3, 2024
All Israel Are Guarantors for One Another: The History of a Metaphor
This lecture uncovers the historical and theological context of the well-known “kol yisrael arevim ze ba-ze” statement. Rather than simply... more
Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson

Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson

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Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson is a scholar of Talmud and Jewish law, and serves as assistant professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. She received a B.A. from the Hebrew University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. She is also a graduate of the MaTaN Advanced Talmud Institute and the Beit Morasha Program in Jewish Law. In 2017-2018 she was the Gruss Visiting Professor of Jewish Law at Harvard Law School, and she has also served as a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Her first book is entitled Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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December 11, 2022
A Deep River Rises: Jewish Law, Theology, and Environmental Ethics
Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse delivers the 2022 Renee and Alexander Bohm Memorial Lecture, graciously sponsored by their grandchildren. This... more
Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse

Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse

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Ariel Evan Mayse joined the faculty of Stanford University in 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and serves as the rabbi-in-residence at Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute (atiqmakers.org).

Previously he was the Director of Jewish Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts. Mayse holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and rabbinic ordination from Beit Midrash Har’el in Israel.

His most recent publications include Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings for Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh (University of Pennsylvania, 2020); Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community and Life in the Modern World (Brandeis University Press, 2020), edited with Sam Berrin Shonkoff, and The Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue (Magnes Press, 2020, in Hebrew).

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December 3, 2022
Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz: The Renee and Alexander Bohm Memorial Lecture
The Jews of medieval Ashkenaz are known to posterity for their erudite biblical commentaries, abstract talmudic dialectics, and intricate poetic... more
Dr. David Shyovitz
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December 15, 2020
Praying for the Welfare of our President: Perspectives from Halakhah and History
This Renee and Alexander Bohm Memorial Lecture, taught by Dr. Jonathan Sarna, is sponsored by Elissa Shay Ordan and Daniel... more
Dr. Jonathan Sarna

Dr. Jonathan Sarna

Years of Experience
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Dr. Jonathan Sarna is University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He is also past president of the Association for Jewish Studies and Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America’s fifty most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community and is recognized as a leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. In 2009, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds four honorary degrees.

Born in Philadelphia, and raised in New York and Boston, Dr. Sarna attended Brandeis University, the Boston Hebrew College, Merkaz HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, and Yale University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1979.

From 1979-1990, Dr. Sarna taught at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he rose to become Professor of American Jewish history and Director of the Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience. He has also taught at Harvard, Yale, the University of Cincinnati, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Dr. Sarna came back to Brandeis in 1990 to teach American Jewish history in its Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. He chaired that department three different times, chaired Brandeis’ Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program twice, and now directs its Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. He also chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati.

He is married to Professor Ruth Langer, and they have two married children, Aaron and Leah.

Selected Publications

Dr. Sarna has written, edited, or co-edited more than thirty books, including Lincoln and the Jews: A History (with Benjamin Shapell) and When General Grant Expelled the Jews. He is best known for the acclaimed American Judaism: A History, recently published in a second edition. Winner of the Jewish Book Council’s “Jewish Book of the Year Award” in 2004, it has been praised as being “the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil.”

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February 9, 2020
Each Person A Tree: A Short History of a Tall Metaphor
כי האדם עץ השדה - Over the past few years, we have become increasingly aware of the deep and complicated relationship between... more
Dr. Shai Secunda

Dr. Shai Secunda

Years of Experience
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Shai Secunda occupies the Jacob Neusner chair in Judaism at Bard College and is a core faculty member at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. He is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Sasanian Iran (Philadelphia, 2014), and writes regularly for the Jewish Review of Books on Jewish scholarship and culture.

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December 19, 2018
Holidays and Theology in the Biblical Calendar: From a ’Holy Land’ to a ’Holy People’
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag on Holidays and Theology in the Biblical Calendar: From a 'Holy Land' to a 'Holy People' Many... more
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Years of Experience
14 Lectures

Menachem Leibtag is one of the pioneers of Torah education via the internet. He is the founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Virtual Beit Midrash and more recently founded the Tanach Study Center. He also lectures at Midreshet Lindenbaum, MMY, Pardes and Orot College for Women.

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December 12, 2016
Light against Darkness: The Miraculous Survival of the Holiday of Chanukkah
The holiday of Chanukkah was one of many celebrations connected to the Hasmoneans, and virtually the only one to have... more
Dr. Shai Secunda

Dr. Shai Secunda

Years of Experience
2 Lectures

Shai Secunda occupies the Jacob Neusner chair in Judaism at Bard College and is a core faculty member at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. He is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Sasanian Iran (Philadelphia, 2014), and writes regularly for the Jewish Review of Books on Jewish scholarship and culture.

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December 2, 2015
Guiding Lights: Illuminating the Distinctions of the Chanukiah and the Menorah
Does the ‘chanukiah’ simply model the Menorah of the Mishkan -with an extra candle? Our session will begin by comparing... more
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

Years of Experience
14 Lectures

Menachem Leibtag is one of the pioneers of Torah education via the internet. He is the founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Virtual Beit Midrash and more recently founded the Tanach Study Center. He also lectures at Midreshet Lindenbaum, MMY, Pardes and Orot College for Women.

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