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The Foundation for Jewish Studies
presents:

FROM REFORM SEMINARY TO
CHABAD EMISSARY

June 26, 2008 at 7:30 pm
DC Chabad House
2110 Leroy Place, NW
Washington, DC 20008

The Chabad House is located just off of Connecticut Avenue across the street from the Washington Hilton.

with Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin

Rabbi Klatzkin will describe his personal journey from Reform to Chassidic practice.

Rabbi Klatzkin was ordained at Hebrew Union College, received his doctorate in medieval Jewish philosophy from Brandeis University, and has studied rabbinic and Chassidic thought in traditional settings with such scholars as Rabbis Adin Steinsaltz and Yitzchak Ginsburgh.

He is a member of the Authors’ and Editorial Boards of the Jewish Learning Institute, a group providing adult Jewish education in more than 250 locations worldwide. He was a contributing editor to Wellsprings, a journal of Chassidic thought, and has been a featured speaker in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Rabbi Klatzkin currently serves as Associate Rabbi of Chabad of Greater Dayton, Ohio and, as a Visiting Rabbi, he audits kosher food production for OK Kosher Certification in the United States and around the world.

This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.

For more information, please contact the Foundation for Jewish Studies at 301-770-4787 or info@foundjs.org.