Friday Night

• 6:15pm Wine & Dine (Reserve at www.OZNY.org), followed by:
• 8:30pm Community Oneg & Lecture in Social Hall:Beyond the Golem: Rabbis, Mystics & Maskilim in 18^th Century Prague

Shabbat Day

• 11:30am Community Lecture in Main Sanctuary, followed by Gala Kiddush: Kabbalah & Halakhah: Strange Bedfellows or a Happy Marriage?(and Why Consider this on Tu B’Shvat?)
• 5:05pm Seudah Shlishit in Bet Medrash: The Waning Hours of Shabbat: A Time of Mourning or a Time  of Ecstasy?

Sharon Flatto is a Professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, and the Director of its Graduate Program. She received her Ph.D. in Jewish history from Yale University and her B.A. from Barnard College. Specializing in early modern Jewish history and Kabbalah, Professor Flatto has taught at a broad range of educational institutions: Brown University, Yale, Queens College and numerous adult education programs. She has received multiple awards, including grants from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Whiting Foundation (for outstanding teaching), and the Wolfe Institute. Professor Flatto is the author of

The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau (the 'Noda Biyehudah') and his Contemporaries (Littman Press, 2010) and various scholarly articles.