Jun

11 2016

Kollel - Sleepless On Broadway

9:30PM - 11:55PM  

The Kollel 1965 W. Broadway
Vancouver, BC

http://www.thekollel.com

Contact Alana Mizrahi
alana@thekollel.com
http://www.thekollel.com

Shavuot services followed by dinner: 9:50pm

Full Menu with Cheesecakes in a variety of flavors, plus a delicious vegan option.

Series of ten minute TED style talks and an assortment of classes to follow dinner - stay as long as you wish.
Speakers Include:
Karen Levitt
Gail Mainster
Dan Friedmann

Once a year, the night time is the right time for mind-blowing Jewish learning.

Come and see why the lights are on.

Shavuot commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire Israelite nation assembled at Mount Sinai.

For more info about the holiday and its customs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot

Two customs are to stay up late to learn Torah, and to eat dairy.

We listen to the Ten Commandments at services during the day.

 

 

About the Speakers

Karen Levitt -
Karen Levitt is the Director of the Business Planning Secretariat at the City of Vancouver. She has held various positions at the City over the past twenty years, including Director of Olympic Games Strategic Planning, Deputy City Treasurer and Manager of Financial Planning. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Ohel Ya’akov Community Kollel, and previously served on the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver Education Task Force, and the Boards of the 2010 Winter Games Operating Trust, King David High School and Jewish Family Service Agency in Vancouver. Ms. Levitt has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from UBC, and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. She most recently taught the popular course, “Real life, real me: The Jewish path to success, happiness and inner peace,” at the Kollel.

Gail Mainster
Gail Mainster, Communications Specialist, David Suzuki Foundation
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gail grew up listening to David Suzuki on radio and TV, and first heard him describe himself as a “vulgarizer” — a person who makes complex language easier to understand — in a 1986 speech to the Canadian Medical Association, when she was doing exactly that for physicians and their patients as Communications Manager for the B.C. Medical Association. Gail started as a David Suzuki Foundation volunteer in 2003 and came on staff in 2007. She’s lived in Vancouver since 1980 and is married to Harold Gutovich. They have one son, Rabbi Jay Gutovich.

Dan Friedmann -
Daniel Friedmann is CEO of leading aerospace company which built the Canadarms. He has a special interest in reconciling biblical accounts with scientific observation.
Daniel is the author of the book The Genesis One Code, which demonstrates a clear alignment between the times of key events described in the Genesis with those derived from scientific observation.