Join us for a post-kiddush talk from guest speaker Rabbi Elan Babchuck in the Rabbi Samuel Chiel Sanctuary.
Topic: Erosion or Evolution? Interrogating the Two Master Narratives about American Judaism
About our Speaker
Rabbi Elan Babchuck serves as the executive vice president at Clal (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership) and the founding executive director of Glean Network, which partners with Columbia Business School. He has published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Religion News Service, writes a column for The Wisdom Daily, contributed to “Meaning Making – 8 Values That Drive America’s Newest Generations” (2020, St. Mary’s Press) and is the co-author of “Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire” (2023, Fortress Press). His newest book about Shabbat, “Sacred Time,” is coming out in 2027. He also serves as a founding partner of Starts With Us, a movement to counteract toxic polarization in America, and is a founding research advisory board member of Springtide Research Institute. Rabbi Babchuck is a Newton native who attended Solomon Schechter Day School and was a member of the Newton Centre Minyan. He currently resides in Providence with his wife and three children.
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