Lectures at Beth Torah
Rabbi Richard Hidary
Three Conceptions of Sin, Three Paths to Atonement - 9/23/09
Lectures from The Center for Sephardic Heritage:
David Shasha
Patshegen Ha-ketab: History as Written Inscription in Megillat Esther - 3/11/09
Prof. Jose Faur
Introduction by David Shasha
The Horizontal Society
Q and A - Respondent David Shasha
Prof. Zvi Zohar
Introduction by David Shasha: Hakham Matloub Abadi - Levantine Humanist
Tragic Genius -- Hakham Matloub Abadi's creativity and self-portrayal as reflected in his Book Magen Ba'adi
Text Handout (PDF) - Given at Congregation Magen David of Bensonhurst - 8/27/07
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"The Dignity of Difference" - 4/30/04
Lectures from Ohel David and Shelomo
Prof. Lawrence Schiffman
The Significance of Community from Ancient to Modern Times - 6/12/07
Prof. Marc Shapiro
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Approaches to Halakhah - 12/9/06
Lectures at the Sephardic Community Center:
Prof. Robert M. Shapiro (Brooklyn College)
Words from the Ashes: Secret Messages from the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz - Yom Hashoah 4/30/08
Prof. Steve Fine (Yeshiva University)
Where is the Menorah? - 4/1/08
Lectures by Merkaz:
Rabbi Marc Angel
Rambam and the Philosophers: What Reason Can and Cannot Attain - 12/22/07
Prof. Marc Shapiro
Rabbi Obadia Yosef and the Revival of Sephardic Halakha - 12/9/06
Prof. Moshe Halbertal
The Rambam's View of Ahabat Hashem - flyer - 11/19/02
Making Yourself Available to Forgive - 12/3/05
Rabbi Moshe Shamah
Understanding Midrash According to the Rambam - 3/22/04
Philosophic Ideas About Which Rambam Changed His Viewpoint - 3/29/04
Yom Kippur Prayers - 10/10/05
Prof. Sara Reguer
"Community - The Backbone of Continuity" - 2/5/03
Prof. Mervin Verbit
Shift to the Right: Reasons and Results - 4/12/05
Rabbi Ralph Tawil
The Views of Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, Rambam, and Ramban about the Land of Israel - 3/12/03
Joseph Mosseri
"Torah - Ancient Relic or Living Law: A Sephardic Rabbinical" - 4/2/03
Tashlikh - 9/27/03
Yom Hashoah Program 2003
Rabbi Nissim Elnecave - Introduction
Stella Levy - The Story of Her Survival
"Sephardic Jewry in the Holocaust" - 4/29/03
Yom Haasmaut Program 2007
Rabbi Natan Lopez Carzodo
Raphaella Segal - Deputy Mayor of Kedumim
Dr. Richard Tomback
What Every Jew Should Know About Islam - 1/3/05
Islam and the Jews in Antiquity - 1/10/05
Lashon haKodesh: An Overview of the History of the Hebrew Language - 5/17/05
Iran and Islam by Richard Tomback, part 1
Iran and Islam by Richard Tomback, part 2
Iran and Islam by Richard Tomback, part 3
Ronnie Benun
Tehillim class on 2/11/03
Tehillim class on 2/18/03
Professor Zvi Zohar - 10/31/04
The Role of Values and Outcome in the Halakhic Process: The Sephardic Approach
Handout in Word format
Professor Ya'akov Shwecka
Game Theory in the Talmud - 4/27/04
Click here to download the slides for this lecture in Word
Professor Ya'akov Speigel
Sephardic Hakhamim of 16th-18th Centuries: Works & Methodologies (In Hebrew) - 6/14/04
David Shasha
"Tradition in the Context of Modernity: An Introduction to the Book of Genesis" - part 1, part2 - 1/16/06
Dr. Sharon Flatto
Introduction to Kabbalah part 1 - 12/1/03
Introduction to Kabbalah part 2 - 12/15/03