The Shabbaton - A Spiritual Get-Away for Young, Jewish Professionals

A Spiritual Get-Away

February 24-25, 2012

Featured Lecturers and Performers

Rabbi Asher Crispe Rabbi Asher Crispe

Rabbi Asher Crispe is an internationally acclaimed speaker specializing in teaching the arts and sciences as seen through the lens of the Torah. His lecture topics range from music, film, art, architecture, gender theory, psychology, education, economics to regenerative medicine and physics. He has been a guest lecturer at numerous educational centers and universities both in Israel and abroad, and has appeared both on television and radio programs. Rabbi Crispe has served for seven years as the Educational Director of the Gal Einai Institute under Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. He has also worked as technology futurist, and has acted as a consultant on emerging trends relating to renewable energy, nanotechnology, robotics and biotech. His latest project is INTERiNCLUSION, a non-profit, multi-layered educational initiative based on social media, multi-user gaming, online video and e-learning technologies.

Sara Esther Crispe

Sara Esther Crispe is a professional writer, the creator and editor of TheJewishWoman.org, and the editor of the Society and Living section of Chabad.org, the largest Jewish website today. She is a well-known lecturer and leading speaker of women’s issues who has spoken across America, as well as in Europe, Canada and South America. Known for her clear and direct approach, she is able to take current and provocative issues and make them meaningful and personal to audiences of varying backgrounds. She has her BA in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego, and studied for her Master’s in Literary Theory at Brooklyn College where she was a lecturer of Composition. Sara Esther is currently working on a book celebrating gender difference according to Kabbalah. She lives with her husband and four beautiful children in Merion, PA.