Professor Dovid Imbo wowed his audience at The Chabad Shul of Leawood as scholar in residence. Speaking Friday night, Shabbat day and at a community program following Shabbat, he was totally engaging and delightful.
(JNS) Professor Vered Noam, head of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, has become the first woman to be awarded the annual Israel Prize for Talmudic studies, it was announced last Monday.
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It’s been advertised as the “longest-running adult education class in the Jewish community” and it may well be. The class is Rabbi Herbert J. Mandl’s Talmud class and it’s been going strong for more than 30 years.
Rabbi Mandl, who is Kehilath Israel Synagogue’s rabbi emeritus, can’t pinpoint the exact date when the class began. He and the traditional congregation’s then-Cantor Earl Berris began teaching an adult education class soon after K.I. moved into its Overland Park building in March 1986. Within just a couple of years that class morphed into a class about Talmud.