Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean at Valley Beit Midrash, presents his lecture "Systems of Confinement & The Dignities of Freedom" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.

ABOUT THIS EVENT: Many understand that killing a human or animal is wrong. Many also know that physical torture of a human or an animal is wrong. But what about confinement? Are cages for humans or animals always wrong? In this session, we will explore Jewish texts and leading secular philosophers on the topic of confinement and freedom. We’ll observe commonalities between industrial prisons and factory farms to raise some difficult ethical questions.

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Reb Mindy Ribner, founder and director of ” Kabbalah of the Heart” and Beit Miriam (http://www.beitmiriam.org) presents her Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Honoring the Heart and Wisdom of the Feminine "before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.

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Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks, meditation teacher and prayer leader (https://www.torahofawakening.com/), presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Spiritual Awakening Through Integral Jewish Meditation, Ten Sefirot and Body of Light "before an audience at VBM's meditation retreat Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.

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Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, Chancellor Emeritus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (http://huc.edu/), on the topic of "Childhood as a Southern Jew."

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Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, the Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (huc.edu/), presents his lecture "Is Our Time Unique? Jewish Social Responsibility in America Today!" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ.

ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Widely respected for his scholarship, integrity, and menschlichkeit, Rabbi Ellenson’s collaborative leadership has reflected his commitment to advancing Jewish unity. He has forged closer ties between HUC-JIR and the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference, and the other arms of the Reform Movement. A

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Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, the Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (http://huc.edu/), presents his lecture "Is Our Time Unique? Jewish Social Responsibility in America Today!" before a VIP audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ.

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Professor Ra‘anan Boustan, Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Blood on the Floor: Depictions of Violence in Synagogue Mosaics from Roman Palestine" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.

ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: The ongoing excavations in the fifth-century synagogue at Huqoq in lower Galilee have revealed a series of impressive floor mosaics. Several of the panels employ martial or violent imagery or refer to narratives in which the Israelites or Jews inflict violence on their enemies. This presentation considers how idioms of violence in mosaic art served as a resource for Jewish

communal self-fashioning in late Roman Palestine.

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Professor Ra‘anan Boustan, Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Collective Sin and Vicarious Atonement in Rabbinic Martyrology" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.

ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: What makes Jews different from Christians, and Christians different from Jews? What elements (if any) made Jewish and Christian identities irreconcilable with one another, already in the ancient world? The Story of the Ten Martyr from Byzantine Palestine (fifth to seventh centuries CE) presents a narrative in which the blood of the rabbinic martyrs executed by Rome is presented as a medium of vicarious atonement for the sins of the Jewish people. The martyrology challenges conventional assumptions about Jewish attitudes toward atoning human blood and thereby illuminates the dynamics of Jewish self-definition in a Christian world.

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Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Co-Founder and President - Yeshivat Maharat, on the topic of "When Being Right is Being Wrong: Living our Values While Building Diverse Communities!"

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