Tikkun Leil Shavuot

Please join us for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, a traditional night of learning. 

In-Person Schedule

• 6:30 pm: Hazzan Asa Fradkin – Niggunim: The Songs That Make Us a People
• 7:00 pm: Evening Minyan
• 7:15 pm: Dinner
• 8:00 pm: Jon Levy – Obligations to Live in Israel
• 8:00 pm: Gideon Amir – Introduction to the Apocrypha Books
• 8:45 pm: Michael Kieval – It’s Shabbat and We’ll Cry If We Want To
• 8:45 pm: Jeff Diamant – Public Opinion on the Israel-Hamas War in the U.S. and Israel
• 9:30 pm: Bill Dauster – The Crime of “Blasphemy” in American Law (and the Folly of Originalism)
• 9:30 pm: Rabbi Deborah Megdal – Jewish AI / Can a Robot Do a Mitzvah?
• 10:10 pm: Cheesecake Break
• 10:30 pm: Toby Schonfeld – Annie Get Your Goats Back!
• 10:30 pm: David Farber – Workers Unite! – Talmudic Sensitivities to Workers and Animal Rights
• 11:00 pm: Todd Rosenberg – A Few Interesting Teshuvot
• 11:30 pm: Adjunct Rabbi David Abramson – Morid Ha-tal: Are We Getting Too Dewy?
• 12:00 am: Rabbi Greg Harris – Zionism: The Answer or the Problem for the Jewish People?
• 12:30 am: Donna Vogel – Arguing with God: Disbelief, Disappointment, and Dismay
• 1:00 am: David Margulies – What We Gain and What We Lose When the Liturgy is Changed

Zoom Schedule

• 7:00 pm: Evening Minyan
• 8:00 pm: Rabbi Deborah Megdal – Jewish AI / Can a Robot Do a Mitzvah?
• 8:45 pm: Rabbi Greg Harris – Zionism: The Answer or the Problem for the Jewish People?
• 9:30 pm: Hazzan Asa Fradkin – Niggunim: The Songs That Make Us a People

If you are attending in person, please use the form below to register for dinner. If you cannot make it in person but wish to attend via Zoom, please click here to sign up.