Kabbalat Shabbat Shuvah. Homage to Linda Gionta by Gwynneth Russler.
Talk by Dr. Vered Sakal & Oneg (in person & via Zoom)
Between Rosh Hashanah to Sukkot: Jewish times, ideas and objects. The talk will discuss how Judaism offers different ways to connect to holiness and community.
Vered Sakal is the Bertram and Gladys Aaron Professor of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University. Sakal holds a PhD in Jewish thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a fellow at the Tikva Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at NYU, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University and the Bloomington Symposia, IU Institute for Advanced Study. Her book Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria: French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing came out in 2025.
Non members RSVP by Sept. 15th