Sinai Scholars Program with Marc B. Shapiro, Ph.D.

Young Israel of St. Louis Presents its Sinai Scholars Program

Marc B. Shapiro, Ph.D.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

11:15 am
Drasha/Shiur after Services
“Judaism and Islam: Some Halakhic and Historical Perspectives”

5:45 pm 
Pre Mincha Shiur
Rav Shlomo Goren: The Revolutionary Chief Rabbi

7:15 pm 
Enhanced Family Seudah Shlishit
Kook and the Modern Return to the Land of Israel

All events are at Young Israel of St. Louis (8101 Delmar Blvd., 63130). RSVP to the Young Israel office at 314-727-1880. For additional information, visit YoungIsrael-STL.org.

About the Speaker

Professor Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966, Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox and Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters. Professor Shapiro is also an online lecturer for Torah in Motion, for which he leads Jewish history tours.

This event is sponsored by Young Israel of St. Louis. Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and Hank Webber and Chris Jacobs.

Sh’ma: Listen! Advisory Committee Chair
Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman

Staff
Rabbi Tracy Nathan, Senior Educator, Center for Jewish Learning
Cyndee Levy, Director, Center for Jewish Learning

Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Gerald P. Greiman, Board Chair
Andrew Rehfeld, President & CEO