Rabbi Saul Berman - Scholar in Residence

DECEMBER 9-10, 2016 

Rabbi Saul Berman

Rabbi Saul J. Berman is a leading Orthodox teacher and thinker. As a Rabbi, a scholar, and an
educator, he has made extensive contributions to the intensification of women's Jewish
education, to the role of social ethics in Synagogue life, and to the understanding of the
applicability of Jewish Law to contemporary society. Rabbi Berman was ordained at Yeshiva
University, from which he also received his B.A. and his M.H.L. He completed a degree in law,
a J.D., at New York University, and an M.A. in Political Science at the University of California
at Berkeley. 

Friday Night, 8:00pm, at the home of Harry & Lori Reidler, 263 Hutchinson Road
TOPIC:  "Women's Head Covering: Shame or Pride?"

Shabbat Morning after services, in The Straus Main Sanctuary
TOPIC:  "The Ideological Identity of Modern Orthodoxy"

Shabbat Afternoon at Seudah Shlisheet
TOPIC:  "Selma 1965 - Recollections of the Civil Rights Struggle"