Community Lecture Series, Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center
and other venues, Miami

Targum Shlishi is dedicated to bringing prominent and visionary lecturers, authors, and educators to South Florida for thought-provoking presentations. These events, held primarily at the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center, have attracted large audiences and promoted much discussion.

Lecturers have included rabbi and author Harold Kushner, renowned for his international best seller, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. He lectured on the topic, “Three Jewish Messages for the Millennium.” Dr. Efraim Zuroff—investigator of suspected Nazi war criminals, Holocaust scholar, and director of the Israel Office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center—has lectured twice in recent years, once on the subject “Murderers Among Us: Should the Hunt Continue?” and most recently on the response of American Orthodox rabbis to the Holocaust (this lecture was in conjunction with the Shul of Bal Harbour, where "Should the Hunt Continue?"). Blu Greenberg, co-founder and first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, spoke on “One Jewish Feminist’s Perspective for the 21st Century.”

A series of themed lectures delivered in the winter and spring of 2002 explored the subject of spirituality and meaning in daily Jewish life. Titled The Divine Within, the series began with a talk by Rabbi Alan Lew, author of One God Clapping and a leader in the Jewish meditation movement. Other speakers included Rabbi Michael Comins, who spoke on “Finding God in Nature,” Rabbi Mitchell Chefitz on “Partnering with the Divine through Kabbalah,” and Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz on “ Does the Soul Survive?” www.marjcc.com

Visiting Lecture Tour, American Friends of Cambridge University,
New York City and Miami
Prominent scholars from Cambridge University’s Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection traveled to the US and presented lectures on this remarkable collection of Hebrew manuscript material and Judaica. Speakers included Dr. Stefan Reif, director of the Genizah Collection. Research at the library has led to significant discoveries about Jewish religion and culture from as early as the ninth century. Targum Shlishi helped to fund this lecture tour.

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