Here is a listing of most of the classes happening on the Upper West Side Shavout Night. Start plotting your course now! Also as a side, many synagogues also have communal dinners that night, but require RSVP/payment etc. If you know of any other shiurs on the West Side that you'd like to add please comment on this article and we will be glad to post.
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Here is the listing. Some awesome topics to keep you awake!
Time | Topic | Teacher | Venue |
8:30PM | Psalms, Sevens and Shavuos: The Spiritual Challenges of Psalm 67 | Rabbi Allen Schwartz | OZ – 95th btw Columbus & Amsterdam |
9:00PM | “Seeing Sinai” a visual and textual hevruta study session | JTS Chancellor Arnie Eisen & Jill Nathanson | BJ – 257 88th St. and West End |
10:00PM | Rambam & the Social & Economic Realities of the Islamic World | Mark Cohen | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:00PM | Revelation in Judaism and Islam | Rabbi Michael Paley | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:00PM | “Cocked and Locked”:A Short Story by Etgar Keret | Ruby Namdar | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:00PM | The Burning Bush: First Draft of Revelation | Amy & Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:00PM | The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai | Nili Gold | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:00PM | When Moses Came Down from the Mountain and Found US: The Americanization of the 10 Commandments | Jenna Weissman Joselit | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:00PM | These are a Few of our Favorite Texts | David Ellenson & Deborah Lipstadt | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
10:15PM | Zionism and Judaism; The Religious Significance of the State of Israel (IceCreamParty following) | Rabbi Mark Wildes | MJE – 86th btw Columbus & Amsterdam |
10:30PM | My Journey to Judaism | Leah Phillips | AISH – 313 83rd btw West End & Riverside |
11:00PM | A Literary Analysis of the Book of Ruth | Rabbi Adam Mintz | KRA – 241 West 72nd St |
11:15PM | “Na'aseh v'Nishma, Crowns & Chuppah: The Revelation of the Union between G-d and the Jewish People” (Dessert) | Riivka Baltuch | Ramath Orah – 110th btw Bway & Amsterdam |
11:15PM | Idolaters & Goyim: Gentiles in the Talmud | Daniel Septimus | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
11:15PM | G-d is a Four Letter Word | Rabbi David Ingber | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
11:15PM | Humor: Israel & the Middle East | Rabbi Micah Halpern | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
11:15PM | Moses as Medici ne Man: Sinai and the Shamanic /Painter Jill Nathanson | Jill Hammer & Shoshana Jedwab | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
11:15PM | Body Language | Rafi Haham | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
11:15PM | Book Talk by the author of “The Year of Living Biblically” | AJ Jacobs | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
11:30PM | Shavous Night | Rabbi Shaul Robinson | Lincoln Square – Amsterdam at 69th St. |
11:30PM | The Mystical Experience: from the teachings The Baal Shem Tov, Reb Nachman, Alter Rebbe & Ishbitzer | Rabbi Naftali Citron | Carlebach Shul – 79th btw West End & River |
11:30PM | Rabbi Baruch Simon (Rosh Yeshiva from YU) Class on Shavuot (Midnight BBQ following!) | Rabbi Boruch Simon | West Side Instiutional – 76th btw Col & Amst |
11:30PM | Daf Yomi | Jack D. Weiss, Esq. | West Side Kollel – 646 West End Ave.(91st) |
11:45PM | A Contemporary Look at the First Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi A.I. Kook | Joey Small | MJE – 86th btw Columbus & Amsterdam |
11:45PM | The Constant Gardener: New Environmental Ethics for the 21st Century | Rabbi Yosie Levine | Jewish Center – 86th btw Col & Amster |
11:45PM | Jewish Service in the Military | Elana Stein Hain | Jewish Center – 86th btw Col & Amster |
11:45PM | Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Shavuot Trivia and Learning | Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg | Jewish Center – 86th btw Col & Amster |
12:00AM | Who Wrote the Bible and Why does it Matter? | Rabbi Allen Schwartz | OZ – 95th btw Columbus & Amsterdam |
12:00AM | The 10 Commandments of Love OR The Joy of Committing | AISH Rabbi | AISH – 313 83rd btw West End & Riverside |
12:00AM | Every Man for Himself? The Mitzvah of Loving Your Fellow Jew in Chassidic Thought | Rabbi Shlomo Kugel | Chabad West Side – Corner 92nd & Columbus |
12:30AM | The Life and Greatness of Rav Avraham Pam z”l | Rabbi Dovid Cohen | Young Israel West Side – 91st btw Bway/A |
12:30AM | Chutzpah, Control, Courage, and Compassion: How Moshe Rabbeinu argues with G-d | Rachel Gutin | Ramat Orat – 110th and Bway |
12:30AM | Did I Really See You at Sinai? Models of Revelation | Rabbi Yonah Hain | Jewish Center – 86th btw Col & Amster |
12:30AM | Retracting Kabalas Shabbas & Hafrashas Challah | Rabbi Avraham Marmorstein | West Side Kollel – 646 West End Ave.(91st) |
12:30 PM | Jewish-Christian Relations | Jerome Chanes | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:30 PM | Israel as Converts: The Conversion Ritual & Standing at Sinai | Dr. David Kraemer | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:30 PM | Ha'orot: The Poetic Lights of Rav Kook | Rabbi Itzhak Marmorstein | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:30 PM | Kohelet: The first self-help manual | Rabbi Jeremy Rosen | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:30 PM | Tikkun in Poetry | Dr. Ilan Safit | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:30 PM | Meditation | Rabbi Sheldon Lewis | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:30 PM | The Holiness of the Everyday | Rabbi Michael Strassfeld | JCC – 76th & Amsterdam, 7th Floor |
12:45AM | The Taryag Mitzvot: starting with mitzvah 143, A sacrificial animal must be at least 8 days old. | Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald | Lincoln Square – Amsterdam at 69th St. |
12:45AM | What Israel Means to Me: Hear from a IDF Soldier, A Recent Imigrant and a Native Sabra | Israeli Soldier, Immigrant, Native | MJE – 86th btw Columbus & Amsterdam |
1:00AM | The 5 Levels of Pleasure OR Jews, Non-Jews, and Torah | AISH Rabbi | AISH – 313 83rd btw West End & Riverside |
1:15AM | The Love of Learning as Expressed through the Prism of Birchas HaTorah | Rabbi Shlomo Gottesman | OZ – 95th btw Columbus & Amsterdam |
1:15AM | The Color of Money: Accepting Tainted Funds for Charitable Causes | Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky | Jewish Center – 86th btw Col & Amster |
1:30 AM | If you could go back in time and kill Hitler before it all happened – would you be allowed to? | Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn | West Side Instiutional – 76th btw Col & Amst |
1:30AM | Why does YIWS end shabbos so late? (Followed by Kosher Subs!) | Rabbi Dovid Cohen | Young Israel West Side – 91st btw Bway/A |
1:30PM | Conversion at Matan Torah & In Our Time | Rabbi Mordechai Prager | West Side Kollel – 646 West End Ave.(91st) |
1:30AM | Talmudic Fairy Tales: Approaches to Understanding and Learning from Fantastical Aggadic Texts | Liz Shayne | Ramath Orah – 110th btw Bway & Amsterdam |
1:30AM | The Formulation of Tanach |