Summer Program 2025 at Matan Jerusalem

Two Sides to the Story: Multiple Perspectives in Jewish Text

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Dates and Days: 3 Weeks
29/06/2025 - 17/07/2025

Hours: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Where: Matan Jerusalem - 30 Rashbag St.

Coordinator: Aviva Cohen | Director: Sarina Novick

In memory of Dr. Dodi Fishman Tobin z”l

Overview of Summer Schedule of Classes | Tours | FAQs | Bios

You are welcome to join for the entire program, for a week, a day or a single class

* Schedule shown below is subject to change

** Matan eshkolot fellows are invited to join

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Program Price

₪ 3,500

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Single Lesson - ₪ 90

Single Day - ₪ 250

Single Tiyul - ₪ Full day - 350; Half day - 250

Single Week - ₪ 1300

Two Weeks - ₪ 2400

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Week 1 29/06/2025 - Until 03/07/2025

₪ 1300

Sunday | Matan Jerusalem- June 29

₪ 250

9:00 am - 9:45 am

Dr. Tanya White | Through the Eyes of Faith: The Visionary Leadership of Miriam and Bnot Tzelofchad

₪ 90

10:00 am - 11:35 am

Dr. Yosefa Fogel Wruble & Dr. Tanya White | Seventy Faces of One Torah: A conversation between Dr. Yosefa Fogel Wruble and Dr. Tanya White

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash | The Art of Storytelling in the Talmud I: The Honi Stories: One Story Told Three Different Ways

₪ 90

Monday | Matan Jerusalem- June 30

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Rabbanit Dr. Adina Sternberg | Can We See the Face of God? One Question, Two Answers

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Dr. Yael Zeigler | Two Sides of the Prophets: Representing God and Israel

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman | Halakha Weighs in on Ozempic: Health Necessity or Simcha Slim Down?

₪ 90

Tuesday | Matan Jerusalem- July 1

₪ 250

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Rivi Frankel | Tour to Old City

פלייר להורדה

₪ 250

Wednesday | Matan Jerusalem- July 2

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Yael Leibowitz | Reconciling Tanakh's Simultaneous Truths

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 pm

Rabbanit Penina Bernstein | Opposing Midrashim in Mitzrayim: Heroic Women

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash | The Art of Storytelling in the Talmud II: Rashbi's Son or the Consequence of Complex Parenting

₪ 90

Thursday | Matan Jerusalem- July 3

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Rabbi Johnny Solomon | A Story Told Two Different Ways I: “Rebuke Me!”: When the Vilna Gaon Asked the Dubno Maggid to Chastise Him

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Rabbanit Penina Bernstein | Opposing Midrashim in Mitzrayim: Heroic Men

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash | The Art of Storytelling in the Talmud III: What is the Ideal Marriage? A Look at the Coupling of Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Eliezer

₪ 90

Week 2 06/07/2025 - Until 10/07/2025

₪ 1300

Sunday | Matan Jerusalem- July 6

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Dr. Yosefa Fogel Wruble | Sefer Shoftim and Megillat Rut: Two Sides of the Story

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Rivka Kahan | Miracles: Lechatchila or Bedieved?

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Rabbanit Gilla Rosen | "Like a Hammer Splintering Rock": What Fractures When Mitzvot Enter the World?

₪ 90

Monday | Matan Jerusalem- July 7

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Rabbanit Dr. Adina Sternberg | Can There be Change in the Torah? Different Perspectives

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Dr. Nomi Schneck | Crafting Our Place in the Universe: Two Sides to Creation

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Dr. Sharon Galper Grossman | Man vs. Machine: Halakhic Perspectives on AI-Driven Medicine

₪ 90

Tuesday | Matan Jerusalem- July 8

₪ 250

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Shulie Mishkin | Tour to Mount Scopus

פלייר להורדה

₪ 250

Wednesday | Matan Jerusalem- July 9

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Dr. Ayelet Hoffmann Libson | Study or Action: What's the Best Way to Live?

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Dr. Ilana Turetsky | Covenant of Blood: Exploring Layers of בדמייך חיי

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Tamar Weissman | Support or Oppose Revolt Against the Romans? A Debate

₪ 90

Thursday | Matan Jerusalem- July 10

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Leah Silver | פני שבת נקבלה: Appreciating the Many Faces of Shabbat

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Rivka Kahan | Two Perspectives on the Personalities of Yishmael and Esav

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Tamar Weissman | A Hero for Our Times, or A Cautionary Tale? The Two Sides of the Samson Debate

₪ 90

Week 3 13/07/2025 - Until 17/04/2025

₪ 1300

Sunday | Matan Jerusalem- July 13

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Miriam White | Wicked: A Survey of Tanakh's Villains; Evil or Misunderstood?

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Pnina Savery | King Achaz in Melachim and Divrei HaYamim

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Malka Hubscher | Like Father, Like Son? Parents and Children in Tanakh

₪ 90

Monday | Matan Jerusalem- July 14

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Rabbanit Dr. Adina Sternberg | Shabbat and Holidays: Two Ways to Celebrate Time and Space

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Dr. Nomi Schneck | Angel vs. Animal: The Bifurcated Human in Genesis 2-3

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Malka Hubscher | Leaders in the Making: The Early Lives of Biblical Figures in Midrashic Tradition

₪ 90

Tuesday | Matan Jerusalem- July 15

₪ 350

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Rabbi Alan Haber | Tour to Caesarea and Zichron Yaakov

פלייר להורדה

₪ 350

Wednesday | Matan Jerusalem- July 16

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag | Repetitions in Sefer Devarim

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Rabbanit Dr. Tamara Spitz | Who Was the Real King David? Explorations in Tanakh and Talmud

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Gila Fine | How the Rabbis Flipped the Script I: The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic

₪ 90

Thursday | Matan Jerusalem- July 17

₪ 250

9:00 am - 10:10 am

Sarina Novick | Maaseh Avot Siman Lebanim: Repeating Patterns in History

₪ 90

10:25 am - 11:35 am

Rabbi Johnny Solomon | A Story Told Two Different Ways II Enlistment: The Meeting between Ben Gurion and the Chazon Ish about Exemption from Army Service

₪ 90

11:50 am - 1:00 pm

Gila Fine | How the Rabbis Flipped the Script II: Narcissus in the Temple

₪ 90