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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261113T180000
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URL:https://www.synagogue.org/events/2nd-annual-rabbi-robert-e-fine-memori
 al-shabbat/
SUMMARY:2nd Annual Rabbi Robert E. Fine Memorial Shabbat
DESCRIPTION:Friday night\, November 13\, 2026 — 6:00 PM Shabbat service f
 ollowed by dinner and talk.\n\n“The Encounter Between Homer and the Bibl
 e” with Professor Azzan Yadin-Israel (Rutgers University).\n\nAzzan Yadi
 n-Israel is professor of Jewish Studies and Classics at Rutgers University
  in New Brunswick\, where he is chair of the Jewish Studies department. He
  received his BA in philosophy and Jewish thought from the Hebrew Universi
 ty of Jerusalem in 1994 and his PhD in Jewish Studies from the University 
 of California at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union in 1999. Prof
 essor Yadin-Israel is the author of Temptation Transformed: The Story of H
 ow the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple (2023)\, The Grace of God and the G
 race of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen (2016) and the Intuitive 
 Vocabulary volumes on Ancient Greek (2022)\, Spanish (2019) and German (20
 13). He will speak about the encounter between Homer (the Iliad and the Od
 yssey) and the Bible as Homeric culture was spreading through the ancient 
 eastern Mediterranean\, honoring the late Rabbi Robert Fine’s life-long 
 study of the intersection of Jewish and Greek culture.\n\nSponsored by the
  Rabbi Robert E. Fine Memorial Fund.\n\nDinner: $36 per person. Please ind
 icate the number of vegetarian meals.\n\nRSVP by November 9 to office@syna
 gogue.org\n\nDonations can be directed to the Rabbi Robert E. Fine Memoria
 l Fund.\n\n
CATEGORIES:Adult Education,Religious Services
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