Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, modern European anti-Semitism, and European Jewish scholarship on Islam.
Sermon for Nitzavim-vaYelech 5774
Shabbat 19-20 Sep. 2014 How time flies! This Shabbat is already the seventh and last of the 7 Sabbaths of Nechama- Consolation, which is also the last Shabbat before Rosh haShana –beginning of the Hebrew year. Since the common denominator of the last 7 Sabbaths of our year are Haftarot which are taken from the […]
Shabbat at Beit Warszawa, August 2014
Being busy on Shabbat: “Six days thou shalt work, and on the Seventh day…” you shall be busy! Busy indeed are the people who attend Shabbat program at ‘Beit Warszawa’ in Warsaw. They begin 9:30-10:30 with a study session of Talmud, led by Rabbi Nativ using Hebrew, Aramaic, English, and Polish alternatively. The morning service, […]