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Connie Spear Birnbaum Memorial Lectures

The Connie Spear Birnbaum Memorial Lecture is an annual event sponsored by the Synagogue Council for Mission alumni and members of the broader Jewish community as a way of addressing issues related to K'lal Yisrael with a speaker of national or international prominence.

The lecture is lovingly funded by the Birnbaum family in memory of Connie, a staff member at the Synagogue Council for seven years, whose work was devoted to building bridges across the religious spectrum of Judaism. Each year's lecture is a wonderful evening with several hundred people in attendance from across the spectrum of religious belief and practice.



  Audio Lectures
 
  Rabbi Steven Wernick
April, 2011 - "Reimagining the Synagogue"

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  Rabbi Steven Weil
March 18, 2010 - "After the Crash: The Challenge of Rebuilding an American Jewry As a True 'Light Unto the Nations'"

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  Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
March 22, 2009 - "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself: A Code of Jewish Ethics"

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  Rabbi Harold Kushner
March 23, 2008 - "Three Ideas the Jewish People Can Teach the World"

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  Rabbi David Ellenson, President, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of religion
March 25, 2007 - "A Shared Landscape, Different Roads: What Modern Jewish History Has to Teach us About Jewish Unity Today"

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  Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, President, Jewish Life Network
April 2, 2006 - "Between Pluralism and Factionalism: Can the Unity of the Jewish People Be Restored?"

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  Richard Joel, President, Yeshiva University
March 6, 2005 - "A Paradigm for Peoplehood: Unity without Uniformity"

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  Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Chancellor, Yeshiva University
2004 - An Evening with Dr. Norman Lamm

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