A Night of Jewish Learning
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Free and Open to the Community
In Person
SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2025
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Squirrel Hill JCC - Darlington Entrance
5723 Darlington Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Join your Pittsburgh community in person for a night of learning with well-known local rabbis and thinkers.
No Registration Necessary
Cheesecake & Coffee
Dietary Laws Observed
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10:00 to 10:50 PM | Chani Altein Three's Harmony: Torah's Secret to Achieving True Peace | Laura Berman Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?—Samuel & the Witch of Endor | Daniel Fellman Henry Ford & Elon Musk: American Jews & the Cars We Drive | Larry Freedman The Best Way to Transmit Responsibility & the Strangest Parental Blessing | Jessica Locketz Wise Aging: What Our Tradition Says About Getting Older | Jeff Myers Who Was Huldah & What Torah Did She Give? | Kara Tav The Stiff-Necked People: A Blessing or a Curse | Sam Weinberg What We Can Learn From the Story of Shavuot to Combat the Corrosive Effects of Social Media | |
11:00 to 11:50 PM | Seth Adelson Plus ça change: Re-reading Classic Zionist Texts Post-October 7 | Shira Berkovits Institutional Courage & Leadership: A Talmudic Discussion | Hindy Finman Polarizing Times, Polarizing People & Disagreeing With the People We Love | Yitzi Genack The Voice at Sinai: Hearing Torah Anew in Each Generation | Danielle Kranjec & Seth Glick Debora Vogel & the Torah of Women's Poetry in Yiddish | Yaier Lehrer How to Love Your Neighbors | Eric Lidji The Torah’s Vocabulary of Melancholy: A Happy Look at Sadness | Emily Meyer Ruth as Poetry: A Creative Exploration of Tradition | Danny Schiff Understanding Chosenness |
12:00 to 12:50 AM | Mark Goodman Radical Hesed: The Alter of Slabodka & Sinai | Yaakov Guterson Singing at Sinai: Chassidic Insights Along the Road to That Mountain | Maddie Herrup Transforming Our Fear Into Awe Through the Revelation at Mount Sinai | Levi Langer Thoroughbred Racing & Violent Sports: A Torah Ethics Discussion | Liron Lipinsky Sinai’s Ethical Dilemmas: Commandments That Haven’t Aged Well | ||||
Featured Speakers
Squirrel Hill JCC - Darlington Entrance
5723 Darlington Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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