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YPD at the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry

Volunteers will help the food pantry sort food, stock shelves or put together food boxes for distribution. All training will be provided onsite. Please wear closed-toe shoes as you will be in a warehouse!

YPD Goes to the Food Pantry

Come volunteer with YPD at the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry! Volunteers will help the food pantry sort food, stock shelves and put together food boxes for distribution.

Nusach Hari B’nai Zion presents Sammy Rangel: From A Tortured Child to a Forgiving Adult

What price does one put on a childhood lost to heinous physical, emotional and sexual abuse?  How does one find forgiveness and allow himself to live a life of purpose and helping others? Sammy Rangel tells his captivating life story with brutal honesty, demonstrating his courage as a warrior to shed his anger and hate for the weapons of compassion and helping others to learn to forgive and believe that change is possible.

Sh:ma: Listen Speaker Speaker Series Presents Elie Kaunfer

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Mechon Hadar. Elie has previously worked as a journalist, banker and corporate fraud investigator. A graduate of Harvard College, he completed his doctorate in liturgy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was also ordained.

Sh:ma: Listen Speaker Speaker Series Presents Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman

Professor Schiffman is the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Director of the Global Network for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies New York University. His areas of interest include Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish religious, political and social history in late antiquity, the history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature.

Sh’ma: Listen! Speakers Series presents Noga Brenner Samia

Rabbi Noga is the Deputy Director and faculty member at BINA in Tel Aviv. The BINA Centre for Jewish Identity and Hebrew Culture is a vibrant center for Jewish learning and social action committed to promoting learning and social action from a pluralistic perspective.

When Law Meets Life

JTS Scholar-in-Residence Weekend, in Partnership with Kol Rinah and Congregation B’nai Amoona, presents When Law Meets Life, featuring Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture, JTS.

Scholar in Residence – Rabbi Steven Weil

The Department of Synagogue and Community Services of the Orthodox Union Presents Scholar in Residence with Rabbi Steven Weil, Senior Managing Director of the Orthodox Union.

BDS 101: What is BDS and What Its Proponents Want to Achieve Inside and Outside the U.S.?

Charles Pulman is a partner in the Dallas law firm of Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch and Ungerman, LLP, where he practices in the areas of tax, corporate and real estate. Pulman is a frequent lecturer and has written many articles on the conflict between Israel and the Arabs/Palestinians, his trips to Israel, the relationship and bond between Diaspora Jewry and Israel, anti-Semitism, and Israel advocacy.