A Night of Jewish Learning
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Free and Open to the Community
IN PERSON
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024 | 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
JCC SQUIRREL HILL - 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 Positivity Bias: Revealing the Beauty in a Fractured World | Amy Bardack Maybe God Isn't the Big Man in the Sky | Daniel Fellman Liberal Zionism Today | Toby Glaser The Role of Liturgical Poetry on Shavuot | Jeff Myers Does Ruth Meet Her Bashert? Where Is the Divine Hand? WhatIis Levirate Marriage? | Jonathan Perlman Sexual Innuendo in the Book of Ruth | Kara Tav Yizkor and Shavuot: Where Private Remembrance Becomes Public | Daniel Yolkut The Khazars and Eretz Yisrael | |
| LOCATION: | 2nd Floor: Levinson B | 2nd Floor: Room 202 | 3rd Floor: Spin Studio | 3rd Floor: Dance Studio | 3rd Floor: Staff Lounge | 3rd Floor: Room 310 | 2nd Floor: Board Room | 2nd Floor: Gym | |
11:00 to 11:50 PM | Seth Adelson How Did We Get Here? 3,000 Years of Land, Peoplehood and Text | Laura Berman Psalm 23: Facing Dark Times in a Challenging World | Yitzi Genack Is Shavuot Still as Meaningful as in the Good Old Days? | Sharyn Henry & Adam Reinherz Judaism Is About Love: A Conversation About Rabbi Shai Held’s New Idea On Judaism | Yaier Lehrer Finding Your Judaism in a Modern World: Walking the Tightrope | Yikara Levari From Adam to Ruth: How it all Connects | Eric Lidji The 13th Scroll: Torah and the Museum | Danny Schiff The Afterlife | Howie Stein Idolatry and Its Practical Applications to Modern Life |
| LOCATION: | 2nd Floor: Gym | 3rd Floor: Staff Lounge | 2nd Floor: Room 202 | 3rd Floor: Spin Studio | 3rd Floor: Room 310 | 3rd Floor: Dance Studio | 3rd Floor: Board Room | 2nd Floor: Levinson B | 3rd Floor: 10.27 HP |
12:00 to 12:50 AM | Larry Freedman We Take a Moment for Silent Prayer: Ancient Structures, Modern Needs, and Personal Expression | Beth Kissileff What Happens at 40: The Cases of Ruth and Rabbi Akiva | Danielle Kranjec Revelation, Torah, and Resilience on Campus | Levi Langer War and Torah: Halachic Perspectives On and Post-October 7 | Henoch Rosenfeld Teslas at Sinai: The Evolution of the Never-Changing Torah Law | ||||
| LOCATION: | 3rd Floor: Board Room | 3rd Floor: Room 310 | 2nd Floor: Room 202 | 2nd Floor: Levinson B | 3rd Floor: Spin Studio | ||||
Featured Speakers
Rabbi Seth Adelson
Beth Shalom Congregation
Chani Altein
Co-director of Chabad of Squirrel Hill
Rabbi Amy Bardack
Congregation Dor Hadash
Cantor Laura Berman
Spiritual Leader at Parkway Jewish Center
Rabbi Daniel Fellman
Temple Sinai
Rabbi Larry Freedman
Director of J-JEP, the religious school of Rodef Shalom and Beth Shalom
Rabbi Yitzi Genack
Shaare Torah Congregation
Cantor Toby Glaser
Rodef Shalom Congregation
Rabbi Sharyn Henry
Rodef Shalom Congregation
Dr. Beth Kissileff Perlman
Editor, author and freelance journalist focused on the Jewish world
Danielle Kranjec
Associate Vice President of Hillel International’s Center for Jewish and Israel Education
Rabbi Levi Langer
Rosh Kollel at the Kollel Jewish Learning Center
Rabbi Yaier Lehrer
Adat Shalom
Yikara Levari
Principal of the girls' middle and high schools at Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh
Eric Lidji
Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Rabbi/Hazan Jeff Myers
Tree of Life Congregation
Rabbi Jonathan Perlman
New Light Congregation
Adam Reinherz
Journalist and Senior Staff Writer at the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Henoch Rosenfeld
Director of Chabad Young Professionals and rabbi of the CYP Shul
Rabbi Dr. Danny Schiff
H. Arnold and Adrien B. Gefsky Community Scholar at the Jewish Federation
Rabbi Howie Stein
Temple B’nai Israel in White Oak
Rabbi Kara Tav
Board-certified chaplain and educator based in Pittsburgh
Rabbi Daniel Yolkut
Congregation Poale Zedeck
Squirrel Hill JCC - Darlington Entrance
5723 Darlington Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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