In commemoration of The 50th Anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem AND In honor of Adam Shandler, outgoing CAI President and past Men’s Club President CAI, in partnership with the Israel Walkathon and Men’s Club, welcomes renowned speaker/teacher Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter.
Sunday, June 4 at 9:45 am
CAI Adult Lounge
Please join us afterwards for bagels, nosh and conversation. RSVP is required. Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter - University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University.
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter is a leading American rabbi, scholar and educator whose active rabbinic career and numerous publications have inspired many to deepen their connection to Judaism. From 2000-2005, he served as Dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston. He also presently serves as a member of the faculty of The Wexner Foundation.
Dr. Schacter holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University. He is co-author of the award-winning volume titled, A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism and author of close to fifty articles and reviews in Hebrew and English. He is also the editor of Reverence, Righteousness and Rahamanut: Essays in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung (1992), Jewish Tradition and The Nontraditional Jew (1992) and the award winning Judaism's Encounter with other Cultures: Rejection or Integration? (1997), and co-editor of The Complete Service for the Period of Bereavement (1995). He is the Founding Editor of The Torah u-Madda Journal, a prestigious academic publication which has gained international acclaim. Dr. Schacter is completing a new Hebrew edition of the autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden.
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