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You are here: Home / News / Open Orthodoxy comes to the UK

Open Orthodoxy comes to the UK

Do you worry that Orthodoxy is neglecting the left? Don’t miss your only opportunity to hear Rabbi Asher Lopatin, one of America’s leading authorities on Open Modern Orthodoxy and the high-profile president of Rabbi Avi Weiss’s rabbinical school in New York, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

– Also hear Edditor-in-chief of Maggid Books and Talmudic narrative teacher Gila Fine, one of the breakout stars of last year’s Limmud Conference.

– A very popular return to the UK of another Limmud favourite, Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens. Bringing his ability to unlock the most out of reach ideas and bring them down to earth for modern Jews.

– A great selection of our own top notch UK speakers.

They will discuss:

  • What do Orthodox Jews believe and does it matter?
  • Who’s in, who’s out of Orthodoxy and who decides?
  • What freedom do we have and how should we use it?
  • What is the future of Orthodxy in this country – and what trends can we already see in America?

BOOK NOW for
Judaism – Learn Behind the Labels
https://v1.bookwhen.com/3n9nb/201409211000/67u

Strictly limited places and prices will rise as each batch of tickets sell out.

LINE UP

  • Rabbi Asher Lopatin, President of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
  • Gila Fine, Editor-in-chief of Maggid Books (Koren Publishers Jerusalem)
  • Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens, Associate Research Fellow at Rutgers University, Philosophy Department
  • Maureen Kendler, LSJS Teaching Fellow
  • Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, LSJS Teaching Fellow
  • Rabbi Dr Michael Harris, Rabbi of Hampstead US
  • Dina Brawer, JOFA UK Ambassador
  • Lindsay Simmonds, LSJS Faculty
  • Felicia Epstein, LSJS Trustee
  • Dr Miri Freud-Kandel, University of Oxford (OCHJS)

THEME

Reviewing the Past, Building the Future

PART 1 – Learn: To Be Jewish – chaired by Maureen Kendler
Sunday 21 September 10am-3pm at Dennington Park Road United Synagogue

  • “What do we believe that God is doing on Rosh Hashona and Yom Kippur, and what should we make believe?” Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens
  • “Eyes That Cannot See, Lips That Cannot Speak: A Tragedy of Rabbinic Rivalry” Gila Fine
  • “Chareidi, Modern and Orthodox: A beautiful combination from the Psak of the Aruch Hashulchan” Rabbi Asher Lopatin

(includes light meal and refreshments)

PART 2 – The Jewish Future in Our Hands – chaired by Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Sunday 21 September 4pm-9pm at Dennington Park Road United Synagogue

  • “The New Jewish Family: Is the community ready for them?” Rabbi Asher Lopatin “What is halakha, and how does it evolve?” Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens
  • “Feminism in Judaism: foreign import or neglected ideal?”l Dina Brawer, Lindsay Simmonds and Rabbi Asher Lopatin
  • Rabbis’ Panel chaired by Felicia Epstein including Rabbi Asher Lopatin, Rabbi Dr Michael Harris, Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens

(includes light meal and refreshments)

PART 3 – Beyond Belief – chaired by Maureen Kendler
Monday 22 September 8-10pm at and in partnership with Norrace Lea United Synagogue

“Reflections on the primordial Torah and the problems it raises for Orthodox doctrine” Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens

  • “Torah Misinai, Innovation Misinai” Rabbi Asher Lopatin
  • Q&A with Rabbi Asher Lopatin and Rabbi Dr Sam Lebens chaired by Dr Miri Freud-Kandel

BOOK NOW – https://v1.bookwhen.com/3n9nb/201409211000/67u

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