Shabbat Chanukah Guest Speaker from Israel: Rabbi Noga Brenner Samia

During Sanctuary Services, Noga will give a Dvar Torah.

Following Services, at Kiddush in the multi-purpose room, Noga and Rabbi Kalmanofsky will lead a study session on a – sadly – pressing topic in contemporary Israeli life and classical rabbinic literature: The Mitzvah of Pidyon Shevuyim [Redeeming Captives], seen as the ultimate form of Tzedaka.

With a passion for pluralism and peoplehood, Noga holds an MA in Jewish Education (HUC/HUJI) and Rabbinic ordination of the Rabanut Yisraelit (Oranim/Hartman). Currently serving as CEO of Hillel Israel, a network of seven Hillel centers on university campuses across Israel, Noga has served as Deputy Director of BINA, taught at the Secular Yeshiva in TA, and lead a spiritual community in Tel-Mond, where she lives with her husband and three children.