In an event hailed by participants as groundbreaking, undergraduate students, noted professors and distinguished Torah scholars from around the world will come together for the first Students-and-Scholars Academic Symposium.
First-Ever Sinai Scholars Conference Brings Students and Professors Together
In an event hailed by participants as groundbreaking, undergraduate students, noted professors and distinguished Torah scholars from around the world will come together for the first Students-and-Scholars Academic Symposium.
Hosted by Chabad on Campus at Princeton University, the April 26 conference of the Sinai Scholars Society – which each semester, sees up to 20 students on each of 45 college campuses study Torah and contemporary issues with their local Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries – will feature the discussion and debate that has become central to the Sinai Scholars program. Eight students will present originally-researched papers examining the application of Jewish ethics to a postmodern world.
“We’re very excited about all of the effort the students put into their papers,” says Rabbi Yitzchok Dubov, director of the Sinai Scholars Society. “We’re bringing these students together with great academics and rabbinic figures to discuss all sorts of Jewish topics amidst the prestigious and breathtaking backdrop of Princeton University.”
Composed of ranking experts in the field of Jewish studies, the lineup includes Rabbi Immanuel Schochet, professor emeritus of philosophy at Toronto’s Humber College; Lewis Glinert, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern languages at literatures at Dartmouth College; Lawrence Schiffman, chairman of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University; and Naftali Loewenthal, professor of Hebrew and Jewish studies at University College of London.
“It’s always great to meet other students that are interested in such questions of great importance. I look forward to the conversations we’re all going to have,” says Daniel Slate, a senior at Stanford University majoring in philosophy.
Slate will be presenting his paper, “Sinai and the Principles of Highest Purpose,” which discusses how the Ten Commandments can only be fully understood within the context of the Book of Genesis and its description of how human beings were created in the image of G-d.
The Sinai Scholars Society is a project of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation. The society is underwritten by the Rohr Family Foundation and supported by several corporate sponsors.
