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Successful Opening Session of Isralight Academy of Adult Jewish Studies

ravsamshor — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:36:05 +0000

Thank you to the nearly 60 people who joined us for the first full morning of classes being offered this fall term! We look forward to another great session next Wednesday Oct. 17th! Please continue to help us spread the word about these inspiring classes!

Isralight’s initial five week term continues on Wednesday October 17th, and runs through Wednesday November 7th. Courses are held at the historic Beit Yisrael Synagogue in Yemin Moshe
2 Pele Yoetz Street, Jerusalem, on Wednesday mornings from 10:00 am until 1pm,with three fifty minute sessions.

Participants may register for one, two or three weekly courses. Classes are taught by Senior Isralight Faculty, Rabbi David Aaron, Rabbi Sam Shor, and Rabbi Binny Freedman.

Semester One Course offerings:

10:00-10:50am
Parsha Perspectives- Explore the meaning and depth contained within Parshat HaShavua the weekly Torah portion. Start the year off right as we study Sefer Breisheet.

With Rabbi Binny Freedman-Rosh Yeshivat Orayta, Director of Isralight

11:00-11:50 am
Masters of Jewish Thought-

With Rabbi Sam Shor, Director of Leadership Development and Adult Jewish Learning, Isralight

In this text based course, participants will be introduced to many of the great masters of Jewish Thought including Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the Rebbe of Piascenzna, the Shem Mishmuel, the Rebbes of Slonim, the Rebbes of Koznitz,the Sefat Emet, and Rebbe Elimelech of Lizjensk. Together we will explore essential teachings of Emuna gleaned from the rich tapestry of these classic works.

12:00-12:50 PM

Making Prayer Meaningful with Rabbi David Aaron, Founder and Dean of Isralight, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta

Making Prayer Meaningful

• Why pray at all?
• How can prayer bring resolve to our very real problems, inspire us daily to greater heights and give us spiritual fulfillment?
• What are we actually saying? What is the personal meaning and modern relevance of the age-old formal liturgy recorded in our Siddur?

This course probes the depths of prayer and reveals its transformational power.
It will:
* address the misconceptions associated with prayer
* offer techniques to enhance prayer
* clarify the soul-meaning of select texts from the Siddur

Acquire the essential tools for radically transforming your prayer into a joyful, uplifting and soulful experience.
Registration and Fees:

One- Time Participants: 35 NIS per session or 100 NIS for an entire morning of learning
Five Session Courses-165 NIS per course
Full Term Course Load (all 3 five week courses) -475 NIS
Registration Details:
Via phone- 02 627-4890 via email sam@isralight.org
http://www.isralight.org

Please provide:
Name and full contact information-name, number(s), mailing address, and email address as well as course selection.

Isralight Academy of Adult Jewish Studies-Fall Term Begins Oct. 10th

ravsamshor — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:04:09 +0000

The Isralight Academy of Adult Jewish Studies offers inspirational, comprehensive courses which enable participants to discover the mastery and meaning of Torah learning and living.
Isralight’s initial five week term will commence on Wednesday October 10th, and run through Wednesday November 7th. Courses are held at the historic Beit Yisrael Synagogue in Yemin Moshe
2 Pele Yoetz Street, Jerusalem, on Wednesday mornings from 10:00 am until 1pm, with three fifty minute sessions. Participants may register for one, two or three weekly courses. Classes are taught by Senior Isralight Faculty, Rabbi David Aaron, Rabbi Sam Shor, and Rabbi Binny Freedman.

Semester One Course offerings:
10:00-10:50am
Parsha Perspectives- Explore the meaning and depth contained within Parshat HaShavua the weekly Torah portion. Start the year off right as we study Sefer Breisheet.
With Rabbi Binny Freedman-Rosh Yeshivat Orayta, Director of Isralight

11:00-11:50 am
Meet the Masters-
With Rabbi Sam Shor, Director of Leadership Development and Adult Jewish Learning, Isralight
In this text based course, participants will be introduced to many of the great masters of Jewish Thought including Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the Rebbe of Piascenzna, the Shem Mishmuel, the Rebbes of Slonim, the Rebbes of Koznitz,the Sefat Emet, and Rebbe Elimelech of Lizjensk. Together we will explore essential teachings of Emuna gleaned from the rich tapestry of these classic works.

12:00-12:50 PM
Making Prayer Meaningful with Rabbi David Aaron, Founder and Dean of Isralight, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta
Making Prayer Meaningful

Acquire the essential tools for radically transforming your prayer into a joyful, uplifting and soulful experience.
Registration and Fees:
One Time Participants: 35 NIS per session or 100 NIS for an entire morning of learning
Five Session Courses-165 NIS per course
Full Term Course Load (all 3 five week courses) -475 NIS
Registration Details:
Via phone- 02 627-4890 via email sam@isralight.org
http://www.isralight.org

Please provide:
Name and full contact information-name, number(s), mailing address, and email address as well as course selection.

Mazal Tov to New Rabbis!

ravsamshor — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:08:29 +0000

Isralight is fortunate to meet many young aspiring Jewish educators through our various leadership training modules.

Many of these young men have spent years in intensive study, and are anxious to prepare themselves for careers in Jewish leadership.

A group of young men have been pursuing their rabbinic studies in our Beit Midrash under the careful guidance of Rabbi Aharon Ziegler, renowned author of five volumes of the Halachic Positions of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, and Rosh Kollel/ Dean of Kollel Agudath Achim Rabbinical Seminary.

We wish Mazal Tov to the following young men who will receive their rabbinic ordination in a special ceremony this evening:

Rabbi Kalman Flaks, who continues in his role as a member of the faculty at our Yeshivat Orayta;

Rabbi Yehuda Kowalski, who continues to be involved in informal Jewish education while completing graduate studies in the New York area

Rabbi Avraham Shandrovsky who will be assuming a position in outreach and education with the San Francisco area Community Kollel

and

Rabbi Yehoshua Shraeger who recently joined the faculty at the Donna Klein Hebrew Academy High School in Boca Raton, FL

We extend wishes of mazal tov and blessings for continued success and growth to each of the new musmachim!

Announcing the Launch of the Isralight Academy for Adult Jewish Studies in Jerusalem-Opening Session Wednesday September 12th….

ravsamshor — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:39:03 +0000

We are excited to announce the launch of a new Isralight initiative, the Isralight Academy of Adult Jewish Studies, to be hosted by the historic Beit Yisrael Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Yemin Moshe neighborhood, over looking the Old City Walls.

Our official “launch” event will be an evening lecture given by Isralight’s Founder and Dean, Rabbi David Aaron on Wednesday evening September 12th at 8 pm.

Rabbi Aaron’s title will be:

New Year, New Life- Higher Powered Holidays

Beit Yisrael Synagogue is located at 2 Pele Yoetz Street in Yemin Moshe. There is a fee of 35 shekels for this special evening event.

The first mini-semester of classes, to be held weekly on Wednesday mornings from 10 Am until 1pm, will begin on Wednesday October 10th. Each Wednesday will feature three successive classes given by Senior Isralight Faculty including Rav Binny Freedman, Israliht’s Director and Rosh Yeshivat, Orayta; Rabbi Sam Shor, Isralight’s Director of Leadership Development and Adult Jewish Learning; and Rabbi David Aaron, Founder and Dean of Isralight, and Rosh Yeshivat Orayta.

For more information, including course titles, fees, and registration, please contact Rabbi Sam Shor via email,
sam@isralight.org .

Rav Binny Freedman to be featured presenter for Rabbinic Chomer Lidrush on-line Seminar

ravsamshor — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:17:16 +0000

In addition to the many leadership training offerings which Isralight provides for rabbis and educators, our senior faculty are often called upon as resources and guest presenters for many other leadership and continuing educational organizations.

Rav Binny Freedman, Isralight’s Director and Rosh Yeshivat Orayta, will be a featured presenter for an upcoming on-line Rabbinic Seminar to offer suggestions for Sermon and lecture material for the Festival of Sukkot. This Seminar, organized by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, will feature Rav Binny together with Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, President of the Rabbinical Council of America, and Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rosh Yeshiva at YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

This seminar is open exclusively to rabbis. For more information or to register please contact rabbinicprogramming@yu.edu .

Now Accepting Applications for year-long Isralight teaching internship….

ravsamshor — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:05:36 +0000

Isralight is now accepting applications for our inaugural class of the year-long Isralight teaching Internship, beginning in September.

The Isralight Teaching Internship is dedicated to professional training for rabbis, Jewish educators, and aspiring outreach leaders.

The program meets four afternoons each week at Yeshivat Orayta (with a daily committment of 1 hour to 2 hours and 20 minutes, for a total committment of four hours to nine hours and 20 minutes each week) and includes intensive study of fundamentals of Jewish thought, training in pedagogy, practical skills, and sensitive contemporary topics, opportunities to “shadow” master teachers, and an optional student teaching practicum.

For more information, or to apply, please forward a resume via email to Rabbi Sam Shor, sam@isralight.org . Upon review of resume, candidates will be contacted to interview and learn more specific details of the program.

Isralight Presents- Mastering Kiruv Seminar 3-Friday August 17th

ravsamshor — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:02:01 +0000

Our next Isralight Mastering Kiruv seminar for rabbis, semicha students, Kollel students, and all those involved in Jewish outreach and education, will be held on Friday August 17 from 9:00 until 10:30am. The details are as follows:

Torah Secrets with Mass Appeal

Friday August 17th

9:00- 10:30 am

Isralight

25 Misgav Ladach

Old City, Jerusalem

Featuring :Rabbi David Aaron- Founder and Dean of Isralight, world-renowned author; Rosh Yeshivat Orayta

For more details, or to RSVP- Pre-registration is required-please contact Chaya in our office- chaya@isralight.org or 02-627-4890.

Isralight presents Mastering Kiruv Seminar- Friday June 8, 2012- 9 am-10:30 AM

ravsamshor — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:42 +0000

Our next Isralight Mastering Kiruv seminar for rabbis, semicha students, Kollel students, and all those involved in Jewish outreach and education, will be held on Friday June 8 from 9:00 until 10:30am. The details are as follows:

Torah Secrets with Mass Appeal

Friday June 8,2012

9:00- 10:30 am

Isralight

25 Misgav Ladach

Old City, Jerusalem

Featuring :Rabbi David Aaron- Founder and Dean of Isralight, world-renowned author; Rosh Yeshivat Orayta

For more details, or to RSVP- Pre-registration is required-please contact Rabbi Sam Shor-sam@isralight.org or 02-627-4890.

Isralight Center for Jewish Leadership, Upcoming Seminars in Durban, South Africa

ravsamshor — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:18:07 +0000

During the past decade, the Isralight Center for Jewish Leadership has offered rabbis and educators from across the globe the opportunity to visit our Jerusalem headquarters for a series of professional conferences, seminars and summer internships. As these rabbis and educators returned to their home communities across the globe, the demand for the type of content offered by Isralight, enabling educators to clarify some of the most important and fundamental teachings of Jewish thought, has grown exponentially. We now have many alumni in important positions of Jewish educational and communal leadership who continue to rely on Isralight to provide resources and inspiration to them and to their colleagues and students.

One such young leader, is Rabbi Sam Thurgood of Durban, South Africa. Rabbi Thurgood participated in Isralight’s summer internship for rabbinic students in 2007, and subsequently returned to participate in our Isralight Rabbinic Enrichment Conference two years later. Rabbi Thurgood is a popular community rabbi and teacher at the Yeshiva School in Durban, where he has developed a series of creative lesson plans utilizing much of the material he has gained from his training at Isralight, as well as the many written works of Isralight’s Founder and Dean, the renowned author Rabbi David Aaron.

Rabbi Thurgood has been instrumental in setting up a ten day community scholar in residence opportunity in Durban, beginning May 17. Isralight’s Founder and Dean Rabbi David Aaron, together with Associate Dean Rabbi Moshe Kornblum will visit Durban, and will be offering a variety of different seminars during their stay…Here are some of the highlights of their upcoming trip:

1. Teacher Training

Rabbi Aaron will be presenting sessions to Rabbis and Jewish Studies Teachers at Yeshiva Day School.

Rabbi Aaron will also be presenting to Talmud Torah Teachers at the Durban Hebrew Schools Association an after school program for Jewish kids who attend the local public schools.

2. Young Leadership Shabbaton

Rabbis Aaron and Kornblum will be leading a Shabbaton geared towards building leaders in the Youth and young adult communities. The focus of the Shabbat will be to provide inspirational content and encourage young adults within the college and post University age group to consider taking a more active role and to consider even becoming a leader in the Jewish community..

3. Lay Leadership Retreat

The following week there will be a 2 day retreat specifically focused on the lay leadership of the Kehilla,as well as a separate seminar for the Women’s League of the Jewish Community, in order to offer encouragement and inspiration to the vital role these individuals play in the vibrancy of the Jewish community.

For more information regarding the many leadership training opportunities offered by the Isralight Center for Jewish Leadership, please contact Rabbi Sam Shor, Director of Leadership Development via email sam@isralight.org .

Now accepting applications for Isralight Teaching Internship at Yeshivat Orayta

ravsamshor — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:21:28 +0000

The Isralight Teaching Internship is dedicated to professional training for rabbis, Jewish educators, and aspiring outreach leaders.

The program meets four afternoons each week at Yeshivat Orayta (with a daily committment of 2 hours and 20 minutes, for a total committment of nine hours and 20 minutes each week) and includes intensive study of fundamentals of Jewish thought, training in pedagogy, practical skills, and sensitive contemporary topics, opportunities to “shadow” master teachers, and an optional student teaching practicum.