Amiel BaKehila 8th Delegation
Friday, December 13, 2019 • 15 Kislev 5780
All Day for 2 DaysIf interested in arranging events with any of the delegates, contact info@dortikvah.org.
JOINING US:
Psychologist Dr. Lisa Aiken
Dr. Lisa Aiken has been a psychologist who works with individuals and couples for nearly 40 years, and has also given talks to diverse audiences in more than 250 cities on six continents. She is also a licensed Israeli tour guide and listed in 13 Who’s Who books, and has appeared on television and radio. She has authored/co-authored 11 books, including To Be A Jewish Woman, Guide for the Romantically Perplexed, The Art of Jewish Prayer, Why Me, God? A Jewish Guide to Coping with Challenges, and The Family Guide to Touring Israel. Her books have been translated into four languages.
Suggested Topics:
-The Id & the Yid: Combining Jewish values and perspectives with modern psychotherapeutic techniques to help us grow.
-Secrets to Increasing our Happiness and Longevity: What do happy people do that all of us can do? Judaism has been teaching us these ideas for thousands of years.
-Counting our Blessings: Interaction with children about what we each to feel grateful for and what is special about us.
Scheduled:
12/13, 6pm Friday Night Dinner with Dor Tikvah
12/14, 10:30am Learner's Service & Morning Sermon with Dor Tikvah
12/14, 7:30pm Wine Tasting with Dor Tikvah
12/15, 9:30am with BSBI
Artist and scribe Jamie Shear
For twenty-six years, Torah scribe, artist and educator, Jamie Shear has been creating handwritten, Hebrew scrolls on parchment to the highest standards of Jewish law, tradition and aesthetics. He has completed ten Torah scrolls
for Synagogues in Canada, US, Israel and Hong Kong. Jamie also fuses the ancient craft of the quill with a unique perspective to create art that adorns, signifies and commemorates. He adds beauty to classic texts like the Ketubah, illuminating them using an array of mediums and artistic techniques. Jamie has a special affinity with the Hebrew calligraphy technique known as micrography, the art of creating elaborate designs using the quill to form images comprised of select texts. When Jamie is not creating, he is teaching about his craft and shares the Torah ideas behind his art to people coming into his workshop / gallery in the Cardo of the Old City of Jerusalem.
for Synagogues in Canada, US, Israel and Hong Kong. Jamie also fuses the ancient craft of the quill with a unique perspective to create art that adorns, signifies and commemorates. He adds beauty to classic texts like the Ketubah, illuminating them using an array of mediums and artistic techniques. Jamie has a special affinity with the Hebrew calligraphy technique known as micrography, the art of creating elaborate designs using the quill to form images comprised of select texts. When Jamie is not creating, he is teaching about his craft and shares the Torah ideas behind his art to people coming into his workshop / gallery in the Cardo of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Suggested Topics:
-Hands-on Scribal Arts Workshop (Learn how to write with a turkey feather on parchment)
-Tefillin: How are they Made and What do they Mean?
-Judaic Scribal and Kaballah Art Presentation
Scheduled:
12/14, 7pm with Hadassah
12/15, 9am with KKBE
Tech expert Ilan Regenbaum
Ilan Regenbaum is Managing Director of Sitech, the Startup Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to that, he was Chief Innovation Officer for the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Interim Commander of the Israeli Air Force Innovation Department, and Founder of the Air Force's Accelerator where he worked to bridge the gap between the startup world and the military and bring innovative ideas and technologies into the IDF. He has a background in startups and entrepreneurship having founded three companies, as well as working as a startup investor at two Israeli venture capital funds. Ilan founded the Israeli Venture Capital Forum, teaches at the Torah-Tech gap-year program in Tel Aviv, founded hadshanut.com, and volunteers with a number of organizations, including Birthright.
Suggested Topics:
-How to Raise VC Money for Your Startup, or other general topics about founding a startup
-Torah & Technology: How Jewish Tradition is Evolving in the Face of Modern Technology
-Commanding Innovation: The story of the founding of the Israeli Air Force Accelerator
Scheduled:
12/13, 6pm Friday Night Dinner with Dor Tikvah
12/14, Seudah Shelishit with Dor Tikvah
TBD, with Addleston Hebrew Academy
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