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Assemblyman Dov & Shani Hikind
The Violence of Silence: Keeping our community safe for kids
February 24
Services: 5:23PM / Dinner: 6:30PM

Dov Hikind is a Democratic New York State Assemblyman, representing Brooklyn’s Assembly district 48. He has held this position since 1983 and has been very vocal about racial profiling, terrorism, and antisemitism in his district, which includes Borough Park, home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel. Hikind hosts a weekly talk radio show every Saturday night, which discusses various local, national, and international concerns. Shani Hikind, is the executive director of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, which subsidizes the renovation of buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Midrash and the Biblical Unconscious
April 21
Services: 9:45AM (followed by a Luncheon & Presentation)

Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg was born in London in 1944 and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. Her father was Dayyan Dr. Wolf Gottlieb, Head of the Rabbinical Court of Glasgow. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Cambridge University. She has lectured widely in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Her first book, Genesis : the Beginning of Desire, won the National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction. She holds a Visiting Lectureship at The London School of Jewish Studies. She has appeared on Bill Moyers’ PBS program, “Genesis: a living conversation.”

Rabbi Chaim Miller, Shavuot Scholar in Residence
May 27
Dinner: 9:00PM / Lecture: 11PM

Rabbi Chaim Miller is a leading international authority for interpretation of Jewish Bible and mysticism and the author of the popular Gutnick Edition of the Torah, and a host of other Judaic titles. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem Publications. Born and raised in London, England, he studied at the prestigious Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys. He began to explore the depth of his religion while at England’s Leeds University through extensive reading and personal introspection. Fascinated by Jewish mystical teachings in particular, he took a year off to learn at a Lubavitcher yeshiva. Five years later he was an ordained rabbi practicing in Leeds. In 2008, President George W. Bush sent the Rabbi Miller’s Slager Edition Haggadah to the troops in Iraq as a representation of the Jewish faith for the United States military.