Session 1: (7:30-8:20 PM)

THE ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT: THE NOBEL PRIZE with Dr. Joe Schwarcz 

Joe Schwarcz has a PhD in chemistry and is Director of McGill University’s “Office for Science and Society” which has the mission of separating sense from nonsense. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching chemistry and for interpreting science for the public. “Dr Joe” has hosted a radio show on science for forty-three years, has appeared hundreds of times on television, writes a regular newspaper column and is the author of nineteen best-sellers.

ADAM AND EVE, CAIN AND ABEL: WHAT IS THE POINT OF THESE STORIES? with Rabbi Dr. David Harbater

Rabbi Dr. Harbater teaches “The Big Ideas of Jewish Thought” at different Jerusalem seminaries. He also teaches BA and MA level courses on the philosophy of education and on Jewish identity at Herzog College, and Jewish thought at the Gan Nachum high school in Rishon. Rabbi Harbater received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Haifa and his semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg in Jerusalem.  He lives with his family in Efrat.

UNWELCOME CHANGE: MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT MOURNING with Corrie Sirota

Corrie Sirota is a clinical social worker & psychotherapist who specializes in the area of grief and loss. She is the author of Someone Died…Now What?  And Loss and Found - A Just Write Grief Journal for Children and Teens. Corrie manages a private practice, she is also a professor at McGill University, a sought after workshop presenter, a TEDx speaker and the Clinical Director of Myra’s Kids Foundation - a free program for bereaved children ages 6 -17.
 

ESSENTIALS OF JUDAISM: WHAT ARE JEWISH VALUES? with Rabbi Mark Fishman

Session 2: (8:30-9:20 PM)

HONEST AGING: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig

THE AMIDA OPENING THE GATES OF PRAYER with Rabba Briah Cahana

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE ARCHIVES with Hannah Srour-Zackon