Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary presents

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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: Homeland & Holy Land: Teshuva and October 7

    • Avinu Malkeinu: Our Dual Relationship with Hashem
  • Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger - "Reimagining Remotely"
  • Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Weinberg - "Transforming Days of Awe Into Days of Love"
  • Rabbi Norman Lamm z"l - "If I Were a Prophet"

    • Teshuva & Our Relationship with Hashem
  • Rabbi Michael Rosensweig: "Ani le-Dodi ve-Dodi Li: The Relationship Between Hashem and the Jewish People"
  • Prof. Shoshana Schechter - "Teshuva: The Blueprint of Creation and the Path to Redemption

    • Serving Hashem through Ahavat Yisrael
  • Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin - "Forgive Me, My King I Did Not Know You Were Also a Father: On Jewish Peoplehood in the American Orthodox Community"
  • Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb - "Rediscovering Achdus: Transforming the Cliché into Something Real"
  • Rabbi Shmuel Ismach - "One Big Happy Family?"
  • Rabbi Ya'akov Trump - "Yishmael's Lessons of Repentance"
  • Dr. Erica Brown - "Table Talk: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the Blessings & Challenges of Unity"

    • Sukkot Insights
  • Rabbi Yehuda Balsam - "Messages of Achdus in the Mitzvos of Sukkos"
  • Mrs. Emma Katz - "Sukkot: A Taste of Eretz Yisrael"
  • Dr. Deena Rabinovich - "Beyond Walls: Cultivating Safe Spaces in our Sukkah and in Education"
  • Rabbi Ari Zahtz - "From Golus to Growth: The Sukkah as a Sanctuary for the Soul"
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: Introduction: The Sound of Silence

    • A Material Matter: Jewish Affluence in Contemporary Times
  • Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin - "On Gvir Culture: What it is and what we can do about it"
  • Ms. Leah Moskovich - "Knei Lecha Chaver: True Friendship Beyond Materialism"
  • Rabbi Itamar Rosensweig - "Poverty, Affluence, & Property: Tzedakah as Distributive Justice"
  • Table Talk: Quotes and Questions for Family Discussions: From Yeshiva University's Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values & Leadership
  • Rabbi Josh Blass, Mrs. Penina Flug, LCSW, Mrs. Mindy Eisenman and Dr. Efrat Sobolofsky - "Materialism, Dating and Marriage: A YUConnects Roundtable Discussion" with an introduction by Rabbi Jeremy Wieder
  • Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz - "Fake it Till you Make it: Should we try to use superficially “fancy” items in our performance of mitzvos?"

    • Exploring Materialism, Vanity & Frivolity in Kohelet
  • Dr. Erica Brown - "When All You Have Isn’t Enough: Materialism in Kohelet"
  • Ms. Rena Cantor - "Unlocking the Layers of Laughter"
  • Mrs. Meira Berner - "What is Hevel?"

    • Tefillah Insights
  • Mrs. Michal Horowitz - "The Blessing of Material Wealth: Living Modestly in the Service of G-d"
  • Rabbi Menachem Penner - "Hachazireinu Bitshuva: Davening for our Spiritual Needs"

    • Yom Tov Insights
  • Rabbi Dovid Hirsch, Rabbi Hershel Reichman, Rabbi Daniel Stein, Rabbi Ezra Schwartz and Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky - "Reverberations from the Beis Midrash"
  • Rabbi Michael Rosensweig - "Mi-Darkhei ha-Teshuvah: Authentic Repentance"
  • Excerpts from Batei Yosef - "Yom Tov Insights from The Rav"
  • Rabbi Eli Belizon, Rabbi Reuven Brand, Mrs. Shoshana Schechter, and Rabbi Etan Schnall - "Sukkot Insights"
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: Introduction: Teshuva On Our Dreams

    • Understanding Forgiveness
  • Table Talk: Quotes and Questions for Family Discussions: From Yeshiva University's Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values & Leadership
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "Forgiveness for Lashon Hara: Reparations, Repentance & Redemption"
  • Dr. Rachel Fryman - "Pardon Me? Personal Mechilah as a Tool for Personal Growth"
  • Dr. Chaim Nissel - "Why Forgive Others?"

    • Yamim Noraim Insights
  • Ari Wasserman - "Short Vorts for Your Tom Tov Meals"
  • Rabbi Ari Zahtz - "There is None Like You"
  • Rabbanit Shani Taragin - "Ten Days In Tanakh: Stubborness , Suspense & Salvation"
  • Rabbi Zvi Romm - "The Weekly Yom Kippur"
  • Rabbi Michoel Zylberman - "Two Methods To Executing A Pruzbul"
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: Introduction: Of Ghosts and Ancestors

    • Faith, Providence and Human Initiative
  • Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank - "Introducing Divine Providence"
  • Rabbi Daniel Mann - "Rosh Hashana, Human Initiative and Personal Responsibility"
  • Mrs. Racheli Taubes - "Yonah: The Lonely Prophet of Faith?"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Becher - "Sukkos and Emunah"

    • Rosh Hashana Insights
  • Mrs. Penina Bernstein - "Sarah and Chana: Two Models for Prayer on Rosh Hashana"
  • Rabbi Benjamin Blech - "The Two New Years & The Two New Beginnings : Nissan Vs. Tishrei"
  • Rabbi Etan Schnall - "Are We Judged Twice? New Fruits, New Suits and an Introduction to Masechet Beitza"
  • Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Weinberg - "Overcoming Shame and Self-Doubt to Answer the Call to Teshuva"
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  • Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman: Reflections on the Past, Preparing for the Future
  • Rabbi Julius Berman - "A Tribute to Rabbi Hy Arbesfeld z"l"

    • Yamim Noraim Insights
  • Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz - "From the Rabbi s Desk A Question of Forgiveness"
  • Six Perspectives on the Yamim Noraim - Mrs. Penina Bernstein, Rabbi Tanchum Cohen, Rabbi Josh Flug, Chaya Sima Koenigsberg, PhD, Mrs. Sivan Rahav Meir and Rabbi Etan Schnall
  • Rabbi Michael Rosensweig - "Teshuva and Rebirth"

    • The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "The Thirteen Attributes and the Mitzvah of Chesed"
  • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht - "Selichot: Learning To Say Sorry"
  • Rabbi Menachem Penner - "The Thirteen Middot and the Symbolism of the Tallit"
  • Rabbi Hershel Schachter - "Kedushas Yisroel"
  • Mrs. Shoshana Schechter - "The Truth Behind Emet"
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  • Introduction: Tzedakah s Role in Removing the Evil Decree

    • Yamim Noraim Insights
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "Returning to Hashem"
  • Mrs. Bracha Rutner - "Free Will: Does It Make Us Moral People?"
  • Rabbi Ari Zahtz - "The Mitzvah of Listening"

    • The Power of Tzedaka
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "Making a Difference: Priorities in Tzedakah"
  • Mrs. Sivan Rahav Meir - "Four Thoughts About Tzedaka"
  • Rabbi Daniel Stein - "Managing Maaser Kesafim"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "The Pledge: Commitment, Conveyance, Consecration"
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  • Introduction

    • Focusing on Tefilla
  • Mrs. Michal Horowitz - "Putting Our Hearts Back Into Our Prayers"
  • Rabbi Joshua Kahn - "Teenagers and Tefillah: An Approach to Tefillah Education in High School"
  • Chaim Nissel, PsyD - "Kol Atzmotai Tomarna: Praying with Body and Soul"
  • Rabbi Menachem Penner - "Sim Shalom: The Perfect Prayer"
  • Rabbi Hershel Reichman - "Reflections on Prayer for the Yamim Nora im"

    • Understanding the Teshuva Process of the Yamim Noraim
  • Rabbi Elchanan Adler - "Mechila in Human and Halachic Terms: Implications for Yom Kippur and Beyond"
  • Avi Muschel, PsyD and Martin Galla, PhD - "Teshuva Is Not Depressing"
  • Professor Smadar Rosensweig - "The Haftarah of Shabbat Shuvah: A Teshuvah Primer"
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  • Introduction
  • Rabbi Etan Berman - "Selichos Chizuk - The Process"
  • Rabbi Josh Blass - "Staying Engaged"
  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "Teshuva and the Question of Change"
  • Rabbi Tanchum Cohen - "Of Apples, Honey, and Black-eyed Peas: The How, Why, and Why-not of Simanei Rosh ha-Shana"
  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser - "Shabbos Yom Kippur: Discovering the Oneg in the Inuy of Life"
  • Dr. Yael Muskat and Dr. Debra Alper - "In The Footsteps of Avraham Avinu: The Process of Change in the Attainment of Teshuva"
  • Rabbi Michael Rosensweig - "Ahavat Hashem and Talmud Torah: The Telos of Teshuva"
  • Rabbi Michael Taubes - "Teshuvah: Moving From and Moving Toward"
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  • Rabbi Reuven Brand - "Teshuva and Self-Esteem"
  • Rebbetzin Marjorie Glatt, JD - "Apple Dipped in Honey: What s the Real Appeal?"
  • Rabbi Meir Goldwicht - "Kol Nidrei: The Great Unifier"
  • Rabbi Joshua Goller - "Eating Before Tekias Shofar: Revisiting the Custom of Yeshivos"
  • Mrs. CB Neugroschl - "The Shofar s Experiential Call"
  • Rabbi Gideon Shloush - "Yom Kippur Lessons from Three Great Zionist Leaders"

    • Special Symposium: From Tanach to American Democracy: Leadership in Transition
  • Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander - "The Challenge of Leadership in a Privileged Generation"
  • Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman - "What Can we Learn from the Laws of Lashon Hara about Negative Campaigning?"
  • Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner - "Voting: A Religious Act?"
  • Rabbi Steven Weil - "What Qualities Define a Leader? A Tale of Two Executives"
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  • Rabbi Yaakov Glasser - "Introduction"
  • Rabbi Elchanan Adler - "Salvation of Man and Beast: Noach, Shofar and the Ultimate Mercy"
  • Rabbi Ezra Frazer - "Did Yonah Teach Nineveh to Repent?"
  • Rabbi Dovid Hirsch - "Rosh Hashana as the Beginning of the Teshuva Process"
  • Rabbi Joe Hirsch - "Does God Want You To Work At Zappos? Malchuyot Reclaimed"
  • Shira Heller and Shira Loewenstein - "Two Gifts to Give Your Children this Rosh Hashana"
  • Chaim Nissel, Psy.D. - "Strive for Perfection but don't be a Perfectionist"
  • Rabbi Richard Weiss, M.D. - "Fulfilling A Mitzvah When It Isn't a Mitzvah"

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