Yehuda Geberer – Medicine And The Holocaust
As part of Shapell’s Holocaust Education Program, we were honored to hear from noted Jewish Historian and lecturer Yehuda Geberer. In this informative and engaging talk, he discussed the perpetrators and the moral challenges and triumphs of the victims and bystanders.
Holocaust Education Program – Josef Lewkowicz
Shapell’s Darche Noam · Holocaust Education Program – Josef Lewkowicz Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Josef Lewkowicz, now 93 and based in Israel, rescued hundreds of Jewish child refugees displaced during the war and living in monasteries and orphanages in Poland. Lewkowicz, the sole surviving member of his family, worked as an intelligence offer for […]
Rabbi Yehoshua Liff – At His Rebbe’s Side
Shapell’s Darche Noam · Rabbi Yehoshua Liff – At His Rebbe’s Side Last Thursday, Rabbi Yehoshua Liff, veteran educator and founding Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yaakov, shared experiences of gedolei Torah with the Shapell’s talmidim and rebbeim. Hear about Rav Yaakov Ruderman ztl, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ztl, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ztl, and others; […]
Rav Kimche – Lessons From The Legacy Of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Shapell’s Darche Noam · Rav Kimche – Lessons From The Legacy Of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Alan Kimche, founding rabbi of the Ner Yisrael community in Hendon, London, and former Shapell’s staff member, shared his memories of the late Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, of blessed memory. He described how […]
Rav Breitowitz
The Shapell’s talmidim were fortunate to hear an inspiring and engaging guest shiur (followed by a question and answer session) from Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz this Monday. He brought out an inner connection between Chanukah and the daily evening prayer instituted by Yaakov Avinu.
Special Guest Lecture: “Stem Cell Research in Halacha”
Alumni and friends of Shapell’s & Midreshet Rachel are warmly invited to join us for a special guest lecture by: Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz: “Stem Cell Research in Halacha” Sponsored by the Goldstein family in memory of Dr. Michael Goldstein, Moshe Eliezer ben Binyamin z”l Sunday, 28 Adar/March 26th at 3:00 p.m. in the Beit […]
Rabbi Binyamin Feldman: “Mishkan Blues: Ennui or Evolution?”
Rabbi Y. Herczeg: “The First Seudat Purim”
Former faculty member Rabbi Yisrael Herczeg weaves together many sources and uncovers where the very first Purim Seuda took place. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47431/high/1717_56_H_The_First_Seudas_Purim.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi Geisler: “HaKarat HaTov-Appreciation as the Chief of Staff”
In this guest lecture, Rabbi Zev Geisler traces both Moshe’s staff and the trait of showing appreciation from Adam in the Garden of Eden through Yosef, Pharaoh, and Yitro, to Moshe. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47393/high/1717_54_H_HaKarat_HaTov-Appreciation_as_the_Chief_of_Staff.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
Rabbi H. Reichman: “Consistency vs. Variation”
In this guest lecture, Rabbi Herschel Reichman of Yeshiva University’s RIETS, a disciple of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l, weaves together thoughts by the Shem Mishmuel and Baal Hatanya about negating one’s self and being independent, about constancy and variation, about prayer, learning, chesed, and marriage. [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl=”http://www.torahmedia.com/streamlinkdirect.php/47361/high/1717_52_H_Consistency_vs_Variation.mp3″] Download external=”0″]
