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Shabbat Dinner with Scholar-In-Residence Malka Simkovich

Friday, February 20, 2026 • 3 Adar 5786

6:30 PM - 8:00 PMMarsi Moss Social Hall
Baron Hirsch Congregation Scholar-in-Residence Forum Hosts DR. MALKA SIMKOVICH Shabbat Parshat Yitro February 20-21

Join us Friday night, February 20 after Maariv for a delicious Shabbat dinner, and a wonderful shiur by Malka Simkovich entitled Holidays for Exile: Chanukah, Purim, and the Making of Diaspora.

Childcare will be available during the shiur.
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Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society and Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University’s Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies. She is the author of three books: The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (2016); Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism (JPS, 2018), which received the 2019 AJL Judaica Reference Honor Award; and Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity (2024). She is also the author of over a hundred published articles in journals such as the Harvard Theological Review and the Journal for the Study of Judaism. A Leon Charney Fellow at the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, a Sacks Scholar for the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Foundation, and a Kogod Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Simkovich served as the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies at Catholic Theological Union from 2014–2024.

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