An examination of the peculiar Chassidic custom to refrain from Torah study on Nittelnacht, Christmas Eve.
Cosponsored by Congregation B'nai Torah.
December 15, 2013
Program: Can It Really Be That (Some) Jews Don't Learn Torah on Christmas Eve?
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…