Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel is the National Scholar of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals (www.jewishideas.org). He teaches advanced Bible courses to undergraduates and rabbinical students at Yeshiva University, and lectures widely. He has published over 100 scholarly articles, primarily in Bible, and is author or editor of ten books. He previously served for seventeen years as Rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel of New York. He lives in New York with his wife and twin daughters. He attended Yeshivat HaKotel in Jerusalem, Israel and received a B.A summa cum laude in Jewish Studies from Yeshiva College, an M.A. in Bible from the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and an M.S. in Jewish Education from the Azrieli School of Jewish Education atYeshiva University in New York City. In 1995 he Received semicha from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. For more info please contact Johnny Hazghiyan.

Rabbi Hayyim Angel’s Speaking Schedule

Fri Night at MJC (Rabbi BenHaim’s Minyan)

– 7:00 pm – “Insights into the Shema”

Shabbat Morning at YMJC:

 –  9:00 am – Shiur “Coffee and the Halakhic Process”

– 11:45 – Derasha in Main Minyan “The Sephardic Inclusive Communal Model”

– 12:00 – Derasha in Singles Minyan

– 12:30 pm – Special Shabbat Lunch and Mingle in Social Hall with Rabbi Angel (Open and free to all singles and young couples)

“Ten Commandments, Two Tablets”

– 7:30 – Micha followed by Seudah Shlishi and Arvit

“Rabbi Haim David Halevi and Religious Zionism: Hashkafah and Halakhah”