Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute and lecturer and director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College in Jerusalem. A renowned lecturer, Rabbi Goshen-Gottstein is the author of over three dozen articles on the topics of spirituality, theology and philosophy, which have appeared in a numerous scholarly journals including Harvard Theological Review. He is most recently the author of The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach (Stanford University Press).

This lecture was given by RAv Meidan, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion.

Rav Gigi, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Gush Etzion, presents his thoughts on Parshat Noach -  comparing the relationships are created between God, Adam, Noach and Avraham.

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Rabbi Klitsner, teacher at Midreshet Linenbaum takes us through various word plays in his explanation of the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with a focus of Parashat Vayera. 

This is a preview to his book entitled, "WRESTLING JACOB: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis."
This book can be purchased through Urim Publications.

Rav Meir Lichtenstein Shmitah, RAM at Otniel, presents the halachot and issues with this year's shmitah.

YCT Rabbinical School and Lincoln Square Synagogue hosted the Annual Winter Community Yom Iyun on the topic of: The Shemita Year and Us Today: Explorations in Bible, Halakha, Philosophy and Public Policy.

Speakers for the event included:
Rabbi Harel Gordin, Rosh Kollel, LSS Community and Torah Mitzion Kollel
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Chair, Depts of Bible and Jewish Thought, YCT Rabbinical School
Rabbi Ysoscher Katz, Director, Beit Midrash program and Rebbe, YCT Rabbinical School
Rabbi Dov Linzer, Rosh HaYeshiva and Dean, YCT Rabbinical School
Rabbi Shaul Robinson, Rabbi, Lincoln Square Synagogue

"What Should Klal Yisrael's Immigration Policy Be?"
The Intersection of Law and Values in the Conversion Controversy 

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program, Instructor of Rabbinics and Medical Ethics at Gann Academy, and a member of the Boston Beit Din. He previously served as Orthodox Advisor and Associate Director for Education at Harvard Hillel and as Talmud Curriculum Chair at Maimonides High School. Rabbi Klapper is consulted internationally on issues of Jewish law and his work is cited by both academic and traditional scholars.

This shiur was given on November 12, 2008.