Join us in Washington D.C. on February 27th-28th. The shabbaton will begin on Friday afternoon and end on Saturday evening. We'll join Adas Israel Congregation for services and enjoy Shabbat meals and Torah study with scholars Dr. Adele Berlin and Rabbi Pamela Barmash. We will also be joined by Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, who will be speaking on Friday night. Cost is $90 per person. Spouses welcome. Register Here
We have a block of rooms at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel for $139/night. Reserve your room here.
*Dr. Adele Berlin, now professor emerita, was the Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland. She taught at Maryland since 1979 in the Jewish Studies Program, the Hebrew Program, and the English Department. Her main interests are biblical narrative and poetry, and the interpretation of the Bible. While at Maryland, Professor Berlin served as Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Berlin has written many books and numerous articles and essays. Among them are three commentaries: Esther (Jewish Publication Society), Zephaniah (Yale University Press) and Lamentations (Westminster John Knox Press). She co-edited with Marc Brettler The Jewish Study Bible, which received a National Jewish Book Award. She also served as editor-in-chief for the revised edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. Professor Berlin has received numerous awards and honors. She is a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. In 2000 she served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature.
*Rabbi Pamela Barmash, Ph.D., is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louis and served as director of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies there. She received a B.A. from Yale University, rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has been a fellow at Hebrew University and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is the author of Homicide in the Biblical World (Cambridge University Press), and she is the co-editor of Exodus: Echoes and Reverberations in the Jewish Experience (Lexington Books, forthcoming), a senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Before assuming her position at Washington University, she served as the rabbi of Temple Shaare Tefilah, Norwood, Massachusetts. She has served on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly since 2003 and on the Joint Beit Din of the Conservative movement since 2008. She taught for many summers at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.