Mechon Hadar Guest

Mechon Hadar is now accepting applications for a range of fellowships and seminars, including for the summer 2012 and the 2012-2013 year-round sessions of Yeshivat Hadar.
Applications for Summer 2012, including the special high school track, are due February 1.

Come to Hadar's Open Beit Midrash on Monday nights to engage first-hand with texts in havruta or in one of several learning groups. Food and energetic atmosphere provided. Choose from weekly sessions on topics ranging from the Zohar to Artistic Representations of the Ten Commandments to special letters in Torah Scrolls.
When: Monday nights, January 23-February 13, 2012 Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm; (Arvit will take place at 7:10pm) Cost: Free
Where: Mechon Hadar, 190 Amsterdam Avenue (at 69th St.)

At Congregation Shearith Israel - the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue's Friday night Hospitality Dinner, musician, ba’al tefillah , and author Joey Weisenberg will teach Shabbat melodies and discuss the musical-spiritual impulse of Jewish singing.  Joey Weisenberg is a faculty member at Yeshivat Hadar in charge of all music education, and works as the Music Director at...

R. Aviva Richman and R. Jason Rubenstein
Three Tuesdays - 1/31, 2/7, 2/14 - 7:30-9pm
at Mechon Hadar, 190 Amsterdam @ 69th St.

We often think of our physical body and ephemeral emotions as what separates us most from God, a mark of our changing nature, our imperfections and limitations. But what if we think of these characteristics as central to living out God's Torah? How does that affect our understanding of issues such as disability, illness, effort, and anger? Over the course of three sessions, we will explore passages in midrash and Talmud, and case studies in halakhah that invite us to re-imagine the interaction between Torah and our most human attributes.

Jack Lew and the Power of Shabbat Obama's Chief of Staff Will Find Ways To Serve and Observe
Jack Lew is the new White House chief of staff. How will he as an Orthodox Jew deal with issues like shabbat?