Dr. Micah Goodman will be the featured the speaker at Westchester Reform Temple on Thursday, May 5 at 8:00 PM for the Third Annual Jacob and Deborah Rubinstein Memorial Lecture. Dr. Goodman is leading voice in Israel and North America on Zionism, Judaism, the Bible and a wide variety of issues facing Israel and contemporary world Jewry.
Dr. Goodman directs the Ein Prat Academy for Leadership, a nonprofit that works to fulfill Israel’s promise by inspiring thousands of young adults from across the religious spectrum through Jewish-Zionist education and leadership training. Of this unique project, he has said, “Our dream was to create something that has the passion of the yeshiva and the diversity of the university.” It has grown from initial applications from 27 students, now bringing together hundreds of secular and religious Israelis each year for intensive programs in Judaism, Zionism and their links to canonical ideas of Western civilization.
Dr. Goodman has a doctorate from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lectures in Jewish thought at his alma mater. He serves as a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and teaches in the Tikvah Project at Princeton University. Dr. Goodman is the recipient of numerous awards for his publications, and a celebrated thinker and author of an Israeli bestseller on Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed.
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The Jacobs and Deborah Rubenstein Memorial Lecture is presented annual in collaboration with Young Israel of Scarsdale, whose rabbi and rebbetzin, Jacob and Deborah Rubenstein, perished tragically in a house fire in 2008. The lecture is offered as a commemoration of, and a tribute to, these two beloved, distinguished, and deeply missed Jewish leaders and pillars of our community.
This event is free and open to the public at Westchester Reform Temple, 255 Mamaroneck Road, in Scarsdale, N.Y.
For more information call the Temple office at 914-723-7727 or email office@wrtemple.org, or visit www.wrtemple.org.
