| 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.
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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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