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| e-TiM: Experience Torah like never before |
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With this remarkable technology - you can see, hear and speak to the teacher from wherever you are; you have to see it to believe it!
Attend any e-TiM class between now and November 30 and be entered into a draw for a free trip to Israel Courtesy of The Joy of Travel and El Al- Israel Airlines. All e-TiM classes are offered free of charge. Donations are welcome and greatly appreciated. |
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Renewing Our Spirit 5768:
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Weekend of November 8-9, 2008
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
470 Glencairn Ave.
Featuring:
Rabbi Michael Broyde | Professor of Law, Emory University | download past mp3s
Rabbi Dr. Yoel Finkelman | Director of Projects and Research, ATID | download past mp3s
Rabbi Yehuda Gilad | Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa | download past mp3s
Natali Lau–Lavie (by video hook-up) | Former Consul General, NY
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz | Founder and Director of Agudath Israel 's Project Y.E.S. (Youth Enrichment Services)
Rabbi Benny Lau | Rabbi, Ramban Synagogue
Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth | Director, Tzohar Rabbinical organization, overseas department
Dr. Tamar Ross | Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Bar Ilan University
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| The MaTaN Mother and Daughter Bat Mitzvah Program |
Wednesdays, Beginning on November 12, 2008
Focusing on Jewish Women Throughout the ages, the 10-week program presents Jewish heroines, through textual sources, who are role models that embody positive attributes young women can emulate. Mothers and daughters learn together as well as participate in creative activities each week.
If you will have a daughter grade 6 in 2008-2009, we encourage you to join us for the program.
Space is limited.
Please call 416.633.5770 or email info@torahinmotion.org for further details |
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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Torah and the Ways of the World
A Conference In Honour of the Bicentennial of His Birth |
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Saturday and Sunday, February 7-8, 2009
Dr. Benny Brown | Jewish Thought, Hebrew Unversity
Dr. Adam Ferziger | Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University | download past mp3s
Dr. Rachel Heuberger | Head of the Jewish Division, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main Dr. Marc Shapiro | Judaic Studies, University of Scranton | download past mp3s |
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Parshat Nitzavim - It's About You
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| Rare is the person who measures his success by looking only at
themselves, trying to determine how they can build on their strengths
and improve on their weaknesses. We tend to compare ourselves to others, often being satisfied with our ethical self as long as we are better, or no worse, than others.... More |
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| The Ethics of Parking |
| Rabbi Meir says: "Do not look at the vessel, but what is in it" (Avot, 5:27). This simple but true teaching would be well applied to how we think of our own children and those of others, and to the recognition of the potential within each one. What is especially disturbing in many instances is the slotting and... More |
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| Election Fever |
With election campaigns ongoing in Canada and the Unites States and quite possibly soon in Israel, we have an opportunity to reflect on the wonderful freedoms that Jews enjoy throughout the world. Many tend to think that Judaism is indifferent or even hostile to the concept of democracy preferring instead a monarchy. This is both a misunderstanding of democracy and of Judaism. It was the Jewish people who brought the concept of freedom, the central tenet of democracy, to the world. Notions such as protecting minority rights, a transparent justice system, social safety... More |
