Jewish Communities Around the World (Part 3)
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Dr. Marc Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing…
Haim Ischakis
Haim Ischakis was born in Athens in 1959. His parents, who moved to Athens after WWII, originated from Ioannina and Chalkida, cities that were home to two flourishing Jewish communities, established before common era by Romaniote Greek-speaking Jews. Haim graduated from the Greek-French High School “Lycée Léonin” in 1976 and began to study Chemistry and Geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1981, after receiving his MSc Degree in Geochemistry, he returned to Greece and became the general manager of…