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Sun, July 13 2025 17 Tammuz 5785

Saturday, November 5, 2022 • 11 Cheshvan 5783

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM

9:00 AM Shabbat Morning Services with Sermon by Rabbi Professor Golinkin
If you are not able to attend in-person, click here for virtual access.
12:30 PM Lunch & Learn – Who is a Jew? Who is a Rabbi? The Conversion Crisis in Israel
This presentation is in-person only.

Rabbi Professor David Golinkin was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia. He made aliyah in 1972, earning a B.A. in Jewish History and two teaching certificates from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received an M.A. in Rabbinics and a Ph.D. in Talmud from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he was also ordained as Rabbi.

Professor Golinkin is President of Schechter Institutes, Inc. and President Emeritus of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where he also serves as a Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law. For twenty years he served as Chair of the Va’ad Halakhah (Law Committee) of the Rabbinical Assembly which writes responsa and gives halakhic guidance to the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel. He is the founder and Director of the Institute of Applied Halakhah at The Schechter Institute whose goal is to publish a library of halakhic literature for Jews throughout the world. He is the Director of the Center for Women in Jewish Law at the Schechter Institute whose goal is to publish responsa and books by and about women in Jewish law. He is also the founder and Director of the Midrash Project at Schechter whose goal is to publish a series of critical editions of Midrashim. Rabbi Golinkin is also the recipient of the Nefesh B'Nefesh 2022 Bonei Zion Prize.

Rabbi Golinkin is the author or editor of 60 books. His current email columns are entitled Responsa in a Moment at www.schechter.edu and Aseh Lekha Rav at www.schechter.ac.il. He has published over 200 articles, responsa and sermons.

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