Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC

Hadar at the EDCJCC presents a Passover Day of Learning
The Broadmoor

Join the EDCJCC and the Hadar Institute for an afternoon workshop focused on themes associated with Passover and freedom and redemption.
The Hadar Institute is an educational institution that empowers Jews to create and sustain vibrant, practicing communities of Torah learning, prayer, and service. This program will include a plenary and breakout sessions full of cross-cultural, passionate discussions open to all, regardless of a participant’s background or affiliation.

SCHEDULE 
1:45 pm—2:00 pm Doors Open and Registration
2:00 pm—3:00pm Plenary Session with Rabbi Shai Held 
3:15 pm—4:15 pm Breakout Sessions with Rabbis Avi Killip and Avi Strausberg 
4:30 pm—5:00 pm Dvar Torah by Rabbi Avi Strausberg and Wrap Up

COST
General Admission: $18
Student Admission: $10

We request a registration fee to help cover the costs of the program. If this is in any way a hardship please email Darya.

Speaker Bios:

rabbi shai held headshotRabbi Shai Held–theologian, scholar, and educator–is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at Hadar, where he also directs the Center for Jewish Leadership and Ideas. A 2011 recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, Rabbi Held has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America. He holds a doctorate in religion from Harvard; his main academic interests are in modern Jewish and Christian thought, in biblical theology, and in the history of Zionism. Rabbi Held’s first book, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, was published by Indiana University Press in 2013; The Heart of Torah, a collection of essays on the Torah in two volumes, was published by JPS in 2017.

 


Rabbi Avi Killip

 

Rabbi Avi Killip serves as VP of Strategy and Programs and Director of Project Zug at Hadar. She was ordained from Hebrew College’s pluralistic Rabbinical School in Boston. She was a Wexner Graduate Fellow and holds a Bachelors and Masters from Brandeis University in Jewish Studies and Women & Gender Studies. She serves on the advisory board of ShmaNOW and the Jewish Studio Project.


 

 

Rabbi Avi Strausberg

Rabbi Avi Strausberg is the Director of National Learning Initiatives at Hadar, and is based in Washington, DC. Previously, she served as the Director of Congregational Learning of Temple of Aaron in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College in Boston and is a Wexner Graduate Fellow. She also holds a Masters in Jewish Education. Additionally, Avi has worked as a chaplain intern at Hebrew Senior Life and organized an anti-trafficking campaign as a rabbinic fellow at T’ruah. Energized by engaging creatively with Jewish text, she has written several theatre pieces inspired by the Torah and maintains a Daf Yomi haiku blog in which she writes daily Talmudic haikus. Avi is most grateful for her wife, Chana, and two children, Ori and Niv.

 

 

This program is a partnership between the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center and the Hadar Institute.

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Date:
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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