Shavuot Night Live 2021

THANK YOU FOR STUDYING WITH US FOR
SHAVUOT NIGHT LIVE

MAY 16, 2021 • 7:30 PM - 2:00 AM
Multiple Zoom Rooms • 16 Presenters • Study through the Night

Although SNL has come to an end, you can still preview all of the sessions by clicking the name of the presenter you would like to see.
This will take you directly to the recording of the livestrem of their recording from May 16.

SHAVUOT NIGHT LIVE SCHEDULE & PRESENTERS

    Session 1 - 7:30 - 8:20 pm
   (Candlelighting will take place in each session at 8:20 pm)

• Cantor Aaron Shifman, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: Practical Teachings of Reb Nachman to Enhance our Lives

• Rabbi Elyssa Austerklein, Beth El Congregation, Akron: DIY Pop-Up Shavuot Art
  All the materials to create this project are free, registration extended through May 13;
  pick-up will be at B’nai Jeshurun and Beth El, Akron from May 10-14. 

• Jay Leberman, Head of School, Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School: Doing the Right Thing! Derech Eretz or Jewish Law

  Session 2 - 8:30 - 9:20 pm

• Professor Doron Kalir, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law: The Golden Calf - Then & Now

• Rabbi Michael Ross, Temple Beth Shalom & Senior Jewish Educator, Hillel at Kent State: Re-imagining the Covenant

• Susan Wyner, Retired Director of Learning Enrichment, USCJ: Women and Scholarship in Jewish Tradition
  (Click here for presentation materials/ handout)

  Ma’ariv Festival Evening Service - 9:30 pm
  Welcome and acknowledgements by Harriet Rosenberg Mann, Community-Wide Tikkun Leil Shavuot Chair

     Session 3 - 10:00 - 10:50 pm

• Rabbi Josh Foster, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: Most Interesting Synagogues Around the World

• Rabbi Peter Haas, CWRU Professor Emeritus: Reading Ruth
  (Click here for presentation materials/ PowerPoint)

• Rabbi Steve Segar, Kol HaLev: The Status of Science in Jewish Thought
  (Click here for presentation materials/ handout)

• Yoshi Silverstein, Founder & Executive Director, Mitsui Collective: Movement & Embodied Torah - Receiving the Wisdom of our Bodies

  Session 4 - 11:00 - 11:50 pm

• Rabbi Stephen Weiss, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: Unlocking the Power of Prayer in the Teachings of Rav Kook

• Rabbi Alan Lettofsky: Revelation in the Talmud

• Elise Braverman-Plotkin, MA Talmud, JTS: The Revelation at Sinai: What Was the Experience Like?
  (Click here for presentation materials/ handout)

  Session 5 - 12:00 - 12:50 am

• Dr. Dale Levy: Is Reason Compatible With Faith?

• Jerry Isaak-Shapiro, Executive Director of American Friends of Kidum: More than Gaza: The Essential History of Israel in the Middle East
  (This topic was recently added due to the situation in Israel and is not listed on out Tikkun flier.)

  Session 6 - 1:00 - 1:50 am

  • Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: Proverbs: A Jewish Guide to a Good End

Click HERE to see the Tikkun Leil Shavuot Flier

Sponsored by:

and the
Estelle and Dr. Milton Rosenberg^z"l Tikkun Leil Study Session Fund.

Thank you to our co-sponsors!
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for additional Shavuot programs.

Thank you to our friend supporters for their generous donations.

Dr. Dale & Karen Levy

Allen Danzig & Lynn Katz Danzig  •  Dr. Michael Hoffman  •  Ivan & Roslyn Platt  •   Larry & Nina Rosner
 

Support for the community-wide Tikkun Leil Shavuot Program is greatly appreciated.
Donations should be designated for the Tikkun Leil Shavuot Study Session Fund and made
c/o B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, 27501 Fairmount Blvd., Pepper Pike, OH 44124 or go to bnaijeshurun.org/donate.