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Please join us for an incredible scholar-in-residence weekend with Rabbi Adina Lewittes, November 15-17. Rabbi Lewittes is a skilled teacher, grounding the ideas of Torah in the realities of our lives. She will guide us through a weekend based on the theme Smashing the Tablets: The Disassembling and Reassembling of Torah in Each Generation. There will be several opportunities to learn with Rabbi Lewittes, and the whole community is welcome to engage with her on Friday night, November 15th, and Shabbat morning, November 16th. Register at the link to join us for Shabbat dinner! The weekend is generously sponsored by the Hallie Cohen & Cindy Sotto Scholar-in-Residence Fund. ---------------------
Rabbi Adina Lewittes founded Sha’ar, a northern NJ/NYC-based, values-driven Jewish community oriented around the call to societal, environmental and spiritual sustainability. For twenty years Sha’ar provided multiple gateways into Jewish life exemplified by a commitment to inclusiveness, diversity, innovation, scholarship, excellence and collaboration.
Dini served from 2017-2020 as the Scholar in Residence at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in NYC, a synagogue renowned for its commitment to social justice and spiritual activism. Dini is also a member of the senior rabbinic faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute, the Board of Trustees of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, and of Keshet. Previously, Dini served as the Assistant Dean of the Rabbinical School at JTS, where she now serves on the faculty teaching Contemporary Jewish Law, and founded a synagogue in Englewood, New Jersey, modelling shared leadership and collective communal responsibility.
Dini regularly enjoys speaking engagements in the US and Canada and publishing essays on topics including Jewish identity, leadership, Jewish innovation, sexual/gender diversity, multifaith/ multiheritage marriage and engagement, and contemporary Jewish spirituality. Dini is an avid skier, hiker and all-around nature enthusiast. She is married to Andi Lewittes, and has four children, two stepchildren, and one incredible dog.
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6675 Humphreys Blvd, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38120, 6675 Humphreys Blvd, Memphis, TN 38120-2359, United States,Memphis, Tennessee, Germantown
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