Rabbi Aryeh Klapper Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat
January 19-20, 2007

Sponsored by the Bayone Family Speakers Fund.

Community Shabbat dinner, January 19
Speaker topic: “Does the Torah Tolerate Torturing Terrorists?”

Mincha at 4:25pm
Dinner at 6:00pm

$15 per adult ($20 for non-members)
$8 per child
$45 maximum per member family (does not include babysitting)

Families: Please include $5/child for babysitting and be sure to mention how many children are to be babysat during the lecture when your RSVP.

RSVP to the KTM event hotline (617-925-4086 or hotline@KadimahTorasMoshe.org) by January 15 and send payment as soon as possible (preferably before the event) to Kadimah-Toras Moshe, 113 Washington St., Brighton, MA 02135.

Please contact the event hotline for additional information.

Shabbat morning, January 20

Rabbi Klapper will speak briefly at Shacharit, which starts at 8:45am.

Shabbat afternoon learning with Rabbi Klapper:
“Should the Tannaim have won the Nobel Price for Economics? Robert Aumann and the Mishnah's Contribution to Game Theory”

Join us at 3:45pm for mincha, followed by learning and seudah shlishit.

About Rabbi Klapper

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper currently serves as Orthodox Rabbinic Adviser and Associate Director for Education at Harvard Hillel, Talmud Curriculum Chair at Maimonides High School, as a member of the Rabbinic Court of Boston, and as Rosh Beit Midrash of the Summer Beit Midrash, which has been hosted at KTM. In his decade of service at Harvard Hillel, his innovative teaching and personal warmth have attracted a broad range of students to his classes and home. In the words of Harvard Hillel Executive Director Dr. Bernard Steinberg, he is "provocative and evocative".

Rabbi Klapper's achievement in the area of Modern Orthodox leadership development is striking. One of every eight male Orthodox students to come through Harvard during his tenure has gone on to study for the rabbinate, and many more of both genders have taken advanced degrees in Jewish studies and/or taught in day schools. Three of the ten members of this year's entering class at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah are alumni of both Harvard and the Summer Beit Midrash, and this year's Pardes Kollel features both Harvard and SBM alums. Many other Harvard alums are taking prominent lay leadership roles in their communities, and SBM alums have launched innovative educational programs even before completing their graduate or rabbinic studies.

Rabbi Klapper's work at Harvard and the SBM has also had significant impact on developing non-Orthodox leaders. Harvard graduates are the spearhead of the growing movement within Conservative Judaism for "halakhic egalitarianism", and have founded innovative communities in various East Coast cities. Alumni attending JTS and RRC call him for advice and counsel, and the gabbaim of the Student Conservative and Reform minyanim attend his classes and ask him for halakhic guidance and decisions. He has accomplished all this from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.

Rabbi Klapper has also earned the respect of Harvard faculty. His innovative PARTNERSHIPS educational programs involve parallel presentations with faculty in their area of expertise, and his Faculty Talmud class was started by request after several such programs. Rabbi Klapper's academic credentials within the Jewish Studies communities have been burnished by several well-received papers at the Association of Jewish Studies.