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Learn from a collection of free, pre-recorded presentations for your own Tikkun Leil Shavuot at home.
Videos can be viewed after Shavuot.
Thank you for learning with us!
Click below to see the videos:
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Tikkun@Home Committee
Harriet Rosenberg Mann - Chair
Richard Berkowitz - Vice Chair
Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria
Shani Kadis - Membership & Programming Director
Thank you to Rommie Sebo of Sebo Video Graphics and Photography for recording and editing all of the presentations.
Thank you to Steven Greenman for providing the musical accompaniment.
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TIKKUN PRESENTERS:
(Click the presenter's name to go directly to their pe-recorded YoutTube presentation. Links to presenters' source materials can be found below their name.)
- Harriet Rosenberg Mann, Chair, Tikkun Leil Shavuot@Home: Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Dr. Sylvia Abrams, Retired Dean, Siegal College of Judaic Studies: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Kevin Adelstein, Publisher & CEO, Cleveland Jewish News: Covering Community News in the Pandemic
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Professor Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University: Jews, Comics, and the Graphic Novel
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rabbi Jonathan Berger, Associate Head of School, Gross Schechter Day School: Can Desires be Denied? The Crime of Coveting
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Ken Bravo, President, International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies: You’ve Done Your DNA - Now What?
- Dr. Nurete Brener, Lake Erie Institute: Adam V’Adamah: Judaism and the Environment
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rabbi Steven Denker, Temple Emanu El: Shadows, Shadim and Us
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Marjorie Falk: Virtual Art Class-DIY Mixed Media: Shabbat Still Life
- Rabbi Josh Foster, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: A Crash Course in Kabbalah: The Origins of Tikkun Leil Shavuot
- Sarah Foster, Akron Coordinator, Hillel at Kent State & Special Initiative Coordinator at Cleveland Hillel: Learning to Live with Imperfection: The Messianic Line
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Cheryl Gordon, Jewish Educator, MAT-MSJS: The Jewish Primer on Coping Skills
- Amalia Haas: Olam Chesed Yibaneh - Build a World of Kindness: Megillat Ruth
- Rabbi Peter Haas, CWRU Professor Emeritus: The Prophet Ezekiel and Shavuot
- Yael Herooty, Head Pastry Chef, BLU, the Restaurant & Rosso Italia: Shavuot Baking Demonstration
(Click here for recipe) - icnext@akiva Teen Fellowship Panels Guided Tour: Israel In Focus: A Photography Exhibition
- Rabbi Enid Lader, Beth Israel-The West Temple: "And I betroth you to me forever" - Ketubot and Shavuot
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rabbi Melinda Mersack, Director of jHUB: Grandparenting Interfaith Grandchildren: A Cross-Generational Conversation
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Michael Milgrom: Loyalty and Betrayal: Amos Oz's Judas
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Elise Braverman-Plotkin, MA Talmud, JTS: Ahavat Olam, God's Love in Good Times and Bad Times
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rabbi Shalom Plotkin: Shavuot Meditation on Har Sinai
- Judge Dan Polster: Freedom and Responsibility: Pesach and Shavuot Together
- Rabbi Scott Roland, Shaarey Tikvah Congregation: What if God was One of Us?
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rachel & Robin Rood, Co-hosts of Cleveland Schmooze: Podcasters Schmooze with Dr. Michael Rabovsky
- Todd Rosenberg: Love Your Neighbor: Jewish Approaches
- Rabbi Michael Ross, Temple Beth Shalom & Senior Jewish Educator, Hillel at Kent State: Ezekiel's Chariot - Jewish Prophecy & Mysticism
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: Crowning Everyday Heroes: The Book of Ruth
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Jerry Isaak-Shapiro, Head of School, Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School: Modern Amalakites: What is our Responsibility to Confront Them?
- Cantor Aaron Shifman, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: The Meaning of the Hebrew Alphabet with Rabbinic Commentaries
- Yoshi Silverstein, Founder & Executive Director, Mitsui Collective: Judaism as Liberation Theology: Sinai and Jewish Peoplehood
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Oudi Singer: Amoxicillin & Tehillim During the Pandemic
- Rabbi Michael Ungar, Beth El-The Heights Synagogue: Jewish Mind, Spirit, and Body
(Click here for presentation materials/PowerPoint) - Rabbi Stephen Weiss, B'nai Jeshurun Congregation: Making Your Own Heaven (or Hell)
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SEE THE FLIER
Sponsored by:
and the
Estelle and Dr. Milton Rosenbergz"l Tikkun Leil Study Session Fund.
Thank you to our co-sponsors!
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for additional Shavuot programs.
Support for the community-wide Tikkun Leil Shavuot Program is greatly appreciated.
Donations should be designated for the Tikkun Leil Shavuot Study Session Fund and made
c/o B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, 27501 Fairmount Blvd., Pepper Pike, OH 44124 or go to bnaijeshurun.org/donate.