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Torah from the Kollel — Audio archive

Guest Speakers and Special Events

 

The Kollel hosts guest scholars on a regular basis, and participates in special events in the wider Dallas Jewish community. On this page you will find lectures and classes given as part of special programs such as JEMS - Jewish Educational and Motivational Seminars, as well as lectures delivered by Rav Natan Greenberg, Rav Schlesinger's special presentation at the Jewish Arts Fest, 2006 and Scholars-in-Residence, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet, and Rabbanit Chana Bracha Siegelbaum.

 

 

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JEMS - Jewish Educational and Motivational Seminars

First seminar - November 7, 2006 

·  Why Did Sarah Laugh? The Meaning of Laughter in the Bible
  
Dr. Esther Shkop
   Dean, Anne Blitstein Teachers Institute

 

·  Male and Female: The Pitfalls of Chivalry
  
Rav Hanan Schlesinger

 

 

 

 

 

Second seminar - December 5, 2006

· Where Did the Wires Cross? Law, History, Identity & the Hanukka Lights  
   Rabbi Ari Perl
   Rabbi
, Congregation Shaare Tefilla

 

 

 

 

 

Third seminar - January 9, 2007

·  Inner Dimensions of Judaism: Rock Your Role with Soul

   Rabbi Baruch Plotkin
   Director of Community Outreach, Community Kollel of Boca Raton

·  Outer Dimensions of Judaism: Walking the Walk  
  
Rav Hanan Schlesinger

 

 

 

 

 

Fourth seminar - February 6, 2007

·  Are Torah and Science Compatible?
   Dr. David Srolovitz
   Dean, Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University

·  Evolutionary Intelligent Design
  
Rav Hanan Schlesinger

 

 

 

 

 

Fifth seminar - March 6, 2007

·  My Egg, My Husband, Her Womb, Whose Child? Artificial Insemination, Posthumous Paternity, and Surrogate Motherhood Through the Prism of Jewish Law
   Rabbi Kenneth Brander
   Dean, Center for the Jewish Future, Yeshiva University

·  A Jewish Perspective on Abortion  
   Rav Hanan Schlesinger

 

 

 

 

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Rav Natan Greenberg

 

 

 

 

·  Freedom, Spirituality and Law

   Rav Natan Greenberg

   Founder and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Bat Ayin

 

 

 

 

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Jewish Arts Fest

· Who's to Judge? Five Ways to improve the People Around You
   With
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Jewish Arts Fest 2006 

 

 

 

 

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POWERHOUSE

 

 

 

 

·  Believing and Acting, 4th January 2007 

 

 

 

 

 

Rabbanit Chana Bracha Siegelbaum
Scholar-in-Residence, 27-28 April, 2007

·  Sefirat HaOmer, Gardening and Spiritual Healing 

 

 

 

 

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Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet
Scholar-in-Residence, 19-29 March, 2007

·  The Uniqueness of Israel's Army

·  Why Talmudic Scholars Love Baseball

 

 

 

 

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