Bill Warner, Founder and President of Warner Research, Moderator
Panelists:
David Frankel, Managing Director, Founder Collective
Joe Caruso, President, Bantam Group
Join Havurah on the Hill for a lay-led, non-denominational Kabbalat Shabbat service in Vilna Shul’s historic sanctuary. After the service we will hear from a guest speaker Joanna Lipper and then enjoy a kosher buffet style dinner.
Joanna Lipper is an author and filmmaker. She runs Sea Wall Entertainment, a company dedicated to the research, development and production of books and films. Joanna Lipper’s nationally acclaimed book on teen parents Growing Up Fast was published by Picador in 2003. Ms. Lipper’s public appearances include lectures on a range of issues relating to psychology, sociology and film. She is currently a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the W.E.B Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
For more info and to view trailers and clips from Joanna Lipper’s films, please visit: http://www.joannalipper.com
]]>Fireside Chat with Misiek Piskorski, Associate Professor of Strategy at Harvard Business School, where he teaches a second-year elective entitled Competing with Social Networks.
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Dina Pomeranz is a PhD student in economics at Harvard, specializing in development economics and the analysis of policies aimed at poverty reduction. Her endeavors have led her into many different parts of the world, including Cameroon, Kenya, Israel, Costa Rica and Chile. She will be talking about her work for the organization TAMTAM Africa, which distributes free mosquito nets against malaria and conducts policy oriented research to improve malaria prevention. TAMTAM saves lives in a highly effective, evidence-based manner: The use of a mosquito net reduces child mortality by over 20% and decreases the risk of braindamage to the unborn child. Additionally, the free nets are distributed in a manner that encourages the use of other preventive health measures. Dina got to know TAMTAM first-hand during her field work in Kenya, and was attracted by the evidence-based, results-oriented approach. She will be sharing her experience and the lessons learned in TAMTAM’s work aimed at building bridges between research and practice. You can find out more at http://www.tamtamafrica.org.
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The Speakers Series’ Annual Panel of Leaders in Venture Capital provide views and predictions for the upcoming year. The 2010 panel includes Elliot Katzman of Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Jeff Fagnan of Atlas Ventures, Jonathan Seelig of Globespan Partners and Eric Paley, Founder Collective. Howard Anderson, Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Business, will serve as our panel moderator this year.
]]>Join Havurah on the Hill for a lay-led, non-denominational Kabbalat Shabbat service in Vilna Shul’s historic sanctuary. After the service we will hear from Professor Yoram Bilu and then enjoy a kosher buffet style dinner. Dr. Bilu holds a joint appointment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Department of Psychology, where he is the Sylvia Bauman Professor, and in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. A clinical psychologist turned anthropologist, he is interested in the interface of culture and psychology as reflected in mental health, folk-religion, and altered states of consciousness. He received the Bahat Prize for his book, The Saint Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel’s Urban Periphery, Haifa University Press (2005). Dr. Bilu will discuss changes in Israeli society over the past few decades.
]]>Guests in Fireside Chat: Jeremy Wertheimer, CEO and Co-Founder of ITA Software, Mark Watkins, CEO and co-founder of Goby, and Dena Yahya, TripAdvisor Director of Revenue and Traffic Management.
Part of the Vilna Shul’s Speakers Series. This will be an intimate fireside chat with three of the leaders in today’s travel business. They have great stories about their company’s founding and startup, and how they built and scaled highly successful businesses in the Boston-area in today’s climate.
]]>Join Havurah on the Hill and the Jewish Community Relations Council for a lay-led, non-denominational Kabbalat Shabbat service in Vilna Shul’s historic sanctuary. After the service we will hear from civic activist Ron Bell and then enjoy a kosher buffet style dinner.
Ron Bell has been a voting rights advocate and community organizer for over 20 years. His long history of building community has made him a well-respected community leader and much-sought-after public speaker. He was, most recently, the Director of the Governor’s Civic Engagement Office for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Civic Engagement Office serves as the primary outreach vehicle of the Executive office and works in the spirit of promoting active volunteerism and civic engagement.
In 1992, Ron Bell founded Dunk the Vote, a Boston-based non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to increasing civic participation and promoting social change. By employing a contemporary style to engage the interest of young people, Dunk the Vote has been able to reach, educate, organize and mobilize thousands of members of the hip-hop generation. Over the past 14 years, it has registered over 40,000 new voters and during the Hip Hop Summit in July of 2004, registered over 7,500 people. As Project Director of the “Selma March: Retracing the Struggle” in October 2005, he organized over 5,000 participants and 400 participating interfaith and multicultural organizations. In 2006, he served as Deputy Campaign Manager for the Deval Patrick Gubernatorial Campaign and as a member of the Deval Patrick Transition Team Civic Engagement Working Group. Following the election, he was Director of the Governor’s Public Liaison Office promoting civic engagement and community-based participation.
]]>Fireside chat with Alan Trefler Founder and CEO, Pegasystems Inc.
]]>Download the Flyer for The American Jewish Experience
Come study The American Jewish Experience with leading faculty. This Me’ah In Focus is a year-long course of 16 sessions.
Join a team of noted experts for an exciting and unusual exploration of Jewish life and culture in America. Taught and designed collaboratively by four leading scholars, this multidisciplinary course ranges over history, politics, the family, feminism, popular music, comedy, film, fiction and autobiography in order to ask fundamental questions about the changing experience of Jews in America.
INSTRUCTORS:
Joyce Antler, Professor of American Jewish History and Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies, Brandeis University
Sylvia Barack Fishman, Chair, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Professor of Contemporary Jewry and American Jewish Sociology, Brandeis University
Sharon Rivo, Professor of Jewish Film, Brandeis University
Stephen Whitfield, Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
LOCATION OF COURSE:
The Vilna Shul, 18 Phillips Street, Boston
DAY/TIME: Thursday evenings, 7:30 -9:00 pm,
beginning November 5, 2009
TUITION: $360
Young Professionals -$180 (subsidized by CJP).
Please make payable to Hebrew College.
Join us for a lay-led, non-denominational Kabbalat Shabbat service in Vilna Shul’s historic sanctuary. After the service stay for a kosher buffet style dinner and a night of socializing and singing in our two sukkahs on the front patio.
]]>Come help us build sukkahs at the Vilna Shul with Havurah on the Hill. No experience is necessary. Help prepare for the holiday of Sukkot by constructing two traditional free-standing structures and decorating them with hanging fruits and vegetables. Snacks will be provided.
]]>Kol Nidre begins at 6:00 PM sharp
Havurah on The Hill, in collaboration with the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, is offering High Holidays services at the historic Vilna Shul on Beacon Hill in Boston. Services will be led by Yoni Bock who has led High Holiday services at the Vilna Shul since 2006. Last year, we had a wonderful turnout from our community and we look forward to welcoming back those of you who attended last year as well as those of you who have never been to the Vilna Shul!
Tickets will be issued on a first come, first served basis, and only 300 tickets will be issued per Holiday. Please note this is a pre-paid event, and in order to be on the RSVP list, payment for this event is required by noon on Friday, September 25th.
For complete details regarding registration, service schedules, volunteer opportunities, and more, please click the "Complete details" link found in the right-hand sidebar.
Dr. David B. Starr,Vice President of Community Education at Hebrew College in Newton, MA. is an expert on the subjects of modern Jewish history, Jewish education and adult Jewish learning in America. He is founding dean of the Me’ah adult learning program, a model of Jewish education for lay and professional leadership nationwide. He is a leading scholar on the life and work of Solomon Schechter, founder of the Conservative Movement. As a much sought after scholar-in- residence, Dr. Starr has created experiential learning encounters for many during weekend Shabbatons and for hundreds of participants on various community leadership missions to Israel for Combined Jewish Philanthropies. He has touched the lives of many students beyond Hebrew College as a lecturer in the Hornstein Program at Brandeis University and as a rabbinic advisor to the Student Conservative Minyan at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel.
]]>Join your Havurah on the Hill friends for a pre-High Holidays happy hour and shofar “blasting” session. Learn why we blow the shofar on the High Holidays and hone your shofar blowing skills. Answer High Holiday trivia questions and win prizes. Learn about some of the melodies sung during High Holiday services and hear tips for healthy fasting during Yom Kippur. Bring your own shofar or use one of ours. Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. We’ll conclude with a shofar blowing competition. How long is your Tekiah Gedolah?
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