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Merkaz Lectures

Faur: The Horizontal Society

Lecture by Rabbi Dr Richard Hidary, given 10/17/12 in Kol Israel Congregation, Brooklyn NY. Please see accompanying handout. Aleppo Codex Ps 90 - black and white

Hidary: The History and Mystery of the Crown of Aleppo

Professor Yaron Harel "Jewish Muslim Relations in Syria in the 19th Century" (handouts available on merkaz.com)  

Harel: Jewish Muslim Relations in Syria in the 19th Century

Lecture by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag "How Chumash Explains the Siddur; How the Siddur Explains Chumash" Congregation Ohel David and Shelomo 10/30/10

Leibtag: How Chumash Explains the Siddur; How the Siddur explains Chumash

Lecture by Rabbi Alex Israel "A Tale of Two Cities: Sodom and Jerusalem" Presented by Merkaz 5/6/10

Israel: Sodom and Jerusalem: A Tale of Two Cities

  Lecture by Rabbi Dr Richard Hidary "Three Conceptions of Sin; Three Paths to Atonement" 9/23/09 at Congregation Beth Torah, Brooklyn NY.

Hidary: Three Conceptions of Sin; Three Paths to Atonement

Lecture by David Shasha "Patshegen Ha-ketab: History as Written Inscription in Megillat Esther" presented by the Center for Sephardic Heritage 3/11/09

Shasha: History as Written Inscription in Megillat Esther

Professor Robert Shapiro "Word from the Ashes; Secret Messages from the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz" Yom Hashoah Holocaust Memorial Program Brooklyn College 4/30/08

Shapiro: Words from the Ashes (Yom Hashoah 2008)

Lecture by Professor Steven Fine "Where is the Menorah?" Yeshiva University 4/1/08

Fine: Where is the Menorah?

Lecture by Rabbi Marc Angel "Rambam and the Philosophers; What Reason Can and Cannot Attain" presented by Merkaz 12/22/07

Angel: Rambam and the Philosophers; What Reason Can and Cannot Attain

Professor Zvi Zohar "Tragic Genius: Hakham Matloub Abadi's Creativity and Self-Portrayal as Reflected in his book Magen Ba'adi" Lecture at Congregation Magen David of Bensonhurst 8/27/07 Introduction by David Shasha

Zohar: Tragic Genius; Hakham Matloub Abadi

Lecture by Professor Lawrence Schiffman "The Significance of Community from Ancient to Modern Times" 6/12/07

Schiffman: The Significance of Community from Ancient to Modern Times

Rabbi Natan Lopez Cardozo Raphaella Segal - Deputy Mayor of Kedumim

Yom Haasmaut Program 2007

Lecture by Professor Marc Shapiro "Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the Revival of the Sephardic Halacha" presented by Merkaz 12/9/06

Shapiro: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the Revival of the Sephardic Halacha

Lecture by Professor Marc Shapiro "Sephardic and Ashkenazic Approaches to Halacha" 12/9/06

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