{"id":10903,"date":"2013-11-22T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2013-11-23T06:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:40:06","slug":"blackman-lecture-features-rabbi-zimmerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/blackman-lecture-features-rabbi-zimmerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackman Lecture features Rabbi Zimmerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Murray Blackman Memorial Weekend held annually at Temple Sinai in honor of its previous rabbi emeritus of blessed memory gets underway tonight with scholar-in-residence Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10918\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10918\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10918 lazyload\" title=\"Sheldon_Zmmerman\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/214;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10918\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10918\" title=\"Sheldon_Zmmerman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sheldon_Zmmerman.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-10918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Blackman Memorial Weekend scholar-in-residence Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman. (\u00a9Liz Robertson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zimmerman is a past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinic arm of the Union for Reform Judaism (the URJ, formerly the United American Hebrew Congregations, or UAHC) and a past president of the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, the URJ&#8217;s major seminary. He is a longtime leader of both the URJ and the CCAR and was chosen to speak on a number of topics throughout the weekend. Zimmerman has chosen the provocative title &#8220;Torah! Torah! Torah!&#8221; as the theme for the entire weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning tonight Zimmerman will be working with Rabbi Ed Paul Cohn in coordination of the theme. The regular Shabbat evening worship services that begin at 6:15 p.m. will feature Zimmerman&#8217;s opening lecture &#8220;Coffee or Kindness? The Search for Social Texture in Our Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s lecture is titled &#8220;What is the Most Important Verse in the Torah?&#8221; and will occur during the worship services that begin at 10:15 a.m. A Kiddush luncheon will follow the talk.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day Zimmerman will be welcomed to the home of Joan and Julian Feibelman where he will deliver his next talk titled &#8220;The Two Happiest Days in Judaism &#8211; What are they? A Taste of Talmud&#8221; at 6:30 p.m. Guests were invited to have notified the synagogue of their arrival with RSVPs.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, on Sunday, November 24, at 9:00 am,\u00a0 Zimmerman will have an interactive session with Temple Sinai Religious School members. The title of his final lecture will be &#8220;Law or Love? 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