In preparation for the celebration of Shavuot, leaders of the Schechter Institutes will offer four informative mini-lectures:
Program (The hours listed below are according to Israel time):
19:00 Some Shavuot Customs from East to West (Part Two)Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin, President, The Schechter Institutes, Inc.
19:30 The Music of Shavuot: from the famous to the obscureDr. Naomi Cohn Zentner, Lecturer in Jewish Music, the Schechter Institute and the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary
20:00 Conversion, Intermarriage and the Book of RuthRabbi Benjamin Segal, author of “The Book of Ruth: Paradise Gained and Lost”
20:30 The Mystery of Shavuot According to S. Y. AgnonRabbi Irina Gritzevskaya, Director, Midreshet Schechter.
