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March 23, 2025
And It Was On That Night:’ How the Gideon Story Revolutionizes Pesach
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
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March 18, 2025
Mishnah in Depth: Eduyot
This lecture represents the start of a major initiative in the study of mishnah at Drisha, in... more
Yitz Landes

Yitz Landes

 
Yitz Landes is a PhD Candidate in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton University and a Lecturer in Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He received his BA in Talmud and Religion and his MA in Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on Jewish liturgy and on the history of Rabbinic Judaism. His first book, Studies in the Development of Birkat ha-Avodah, was published in 2018.

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March 17, 2025
What Makes Halakhic Loopholes Religious?
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Elana Stein Hain

Elana Stein Hain

Elana Stein Hain is the Director of Leadership Education for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she serves as a lead faculty member and oversees the content of lay and professional leadership programs. She earned her doctorate in Religion from Columbia University and is a graduate of the Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies at Yeshiva University. Dr. Stein Hain served for eight years as a clergy member at Lincoln Square Synagogue and The Jewish Center, both in New York, as well as adjunct faculty at NYU.

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March 9, 2025
Pre-Purim One-Shot: Why don’t we say Hallel on Purim?
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Dr. Shana Strauch Schick

Dr. Shana Strauch Schick

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).

Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Rabbi Joe Wolfson

Rabbi Joe Wolfson grew up in London and spent ten years studying, working, and loving life in Israel. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Bet Morasha, through which he received hissemikha from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He thought he was going into politics and did degrees at Cambridge, where he was president of the Jewish Society and UCL. He decided to go into Jewish education and has taught texts on four continents primarily as a faculty member of London School of Jewish Studies. Beyond music, good books, cycling and HBO, Rabbi Joe is passionate about the way in which texts link up to larger issues of Jewish identity. He has worked in areas as diverse as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, religious-secular relations in Israel, and European Jewish communities.

Rabbi Jon Kelsen

Rabbi Jon Kelsen

Dr. R. Jon Kelsen is the Chief Education Officer at Drisha, having formerly served as Dean at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He received ordination from Rabbis Daniel Landes and Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg and holds a PhD in Education and Jewish Studies from New York University, which he pursued as a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

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March 4, 2025
Introduction to the Book of Daniel
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
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February 25, 2025
This Year We Are Slaves, Next Year We Will Be Free
Summer series 2019 “Moments of Creation.” Discuss the mitzvah of P’ru u-Revu, God’s... more
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February 18, 2025
Ethics of Our Fighters: The Development of Jewish Military Ethics
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
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February 9, 2025
Mishnah in Depth: Shevuot
This lecture represents the start of a major initiative in the study of mishnah at Drisha, in... more
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February 2, 2025
The Covenant of Sinai
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

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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January 31, 2025
Hanukkah One-Shot
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Rabbi Jon Kelsen

Rabbi Jon Kelsen

Dr. R. Jon Kelsen is the Chief Education Officer at Drisha, having formerly served as Dean at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He received ordination from Rabbis Daniel Landes and Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg and holds a PhD in Education and Jewish Studies from New York University, which he pursued as a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

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Victoria Sutton
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Victoria Sutton

Rabbanit Victoria Sutton is on the Judaic studies faculty at the Heschel School and has taught in the Drisha High School Summer Program. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Education and Community Engagement at Congregation Beth Israel, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Berkeley. She was ordained through Yeshivat Maharat in 2014. A graduate of Barnard College, with a BA in Biological Sciences, she also holds a Grand Diploma in Pastry Arts from the French Culinary Institute. Victoria sat on the board of Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay and was involved with community organizations in New York City focusing on homelessness, literacy, sexual assault and domestic violence.

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December 25, 2024
Mishnah in Depth: Sanhedrin and Makkot
This lecture represents the start of a major initiative in the study of mishnah at Drisha, in... more
Rav Matthew Nitzanim
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Rav Matthew Nitzanim

Matthew Nitzanim teaches Torah at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Pardes. He studied at Bar-Ilan University (MA, Bioethics), Yeshivat Machanayim (Smicha, Israeli Chief Rabbinate), and Princeton University (BA, Philosophy).

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December 23, 2024
On Knowledge, Labor and Work in The Bible
Beruriah is the only female scholar mentioned by name in the Talmud. She is simultaneously a part... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

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.

Click here to access other recorded classes by David Silber.

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