JTS Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat with Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen

Date: Dec 06, 2019 - Dec 07, 2019

Sponsor: JTS Learning in Your Community

Location: Florida

Category: JTS in Your Community Scholar in Residence

JTS Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat

Spend Shabbat learning with JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen, one of the world’s foremost scholars of American Judaism.

Friday, December 6

Kabbalat Shabbat services at 7:00 p.m.: “New Paradigms for Jewish Leadership”
How should Jewish professionals combat the rising tide of antisemitism and anti-Zionism and anti-Judaism in our communities? How can we successfully make the case for Jewish commitment and community?

Saturday, December 7

Shabbat morning services at 9:15 a.m.: “‘Doing Jewish’ in the 21st Century”
How have new developments in technology and culture changed the way we think about being Jewish human beings? What lies on the horizon? How will the Judaism of millennials and teens transform our tradition and our community?

Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach
190 N. County Road
Palm Beach, FL 33480
(561) 832-0804

About Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen
Arnold M. Eisen, one of the world’s foremost authorities on American Judaism, is the seventh chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Since taking office in 2007, Chancellor Eisen has transformed the education of religious, pedagogical, professional, and lay leaders for North American Jewry, with a focus on graduating highly skilled, innovative leaders who bring Judaism alive in ways that speak authentically to Jews at a time of rapid and far-reaching change.