Hey SAJEnikim,
Scholar-in-Residence Aryeh Bernstein is back!
Tomorrow, Monday 11 May 2015
630pm
Newberger Hillel Center (Third floor)
5715 S Woodlawn Avenue
Distribution of Crucial Resources When Those Resources are LimitedAnalysis of a section of the Talmud about drought conditions, when one town has a well in its jurisdiction, with a sweeping Rabbinic disagreement about which of its own uses it can prioritize over more urgent needs of neighboring towns. More crucially: who owns water?
Aryeh Bernstein is a 5th-generation South Sider, recently returned after 14 years in Israel. He coordinates Mishkan Chicago's introduction to Judaism program, has been an Editor-Translator for the Koren-Steinsaltz English Talmud edition, and Director of Alumni Affairs and Recruitment for Mechon Hadar, and is a Senior Editor of Jewschool.com. He has studied at Columbia, JTS, YU, YCT, and Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, and taught Talmud, Halakhah, Tanakh, and Jewish Thought at Drisha, Yeshivat Talpiot, the Havurah Institute, the Hartman High School, the TAKUM social justice beit midrash, Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, where he co-founded the Beit Midrash, and communities and campuses around the U.S. and Israel. He has led High Holiday services at Kehilat Hadar since 2002 and is on the board of Jewish Public Media.
Please RSVP on Facebook, if you can. Hope to see you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1576461225974931/
Best,
Maxine
