Shavuot Ideas and Inspiration 2023

Our Speakers

• Mrs. Hava Preil
  Licensed Israeli Tour Guide Chessed- A Prerequisite for Royalty Watch Now! Wednesday, May 17th at 12pm EDT More about this speaker

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  Mrs. Hava Preil

  Hava Preil is an enthusiastic Licensed Israeli Tour Guide. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and holds an MA in Judaic Studies. Hava has developed and taught accredited courses in Tanach and Jewish Ethics for Naaleh/Woodmont College and Cybersem. She currently lives in Givat Ze’ev, Israel with her family. Hava can be reached at IL:054-844-1579, USA: 845-391-0438 or at Havapreil@gmail.com

• Mrs. Michal Horowitz
  Sefer Tehillim: A Prayer Book for All Times Watch Now! Wednesday, May 17th at 8pm EDT More about this speaker

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  Mrs. Michal Horowitz

  Mrs. Michal Horowitz is a Torah teacher whose shiurim reach audiences worldwide. She teaches weekly in her Five Towns, NY, community and lectures nationally and internationally. A longtime presenter for the OU Women’s Initiative, she inaugurated the Torat Imecha Nach Yomi program. In September 2023, she was invited by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis to serve as the first female scholar to keynote the Annual Pre-Yamim Noraim Conference for the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. She is the author of Abled: Living With a Disability, a Torah View (Mosaica Press, 2025) and lives in Woodmere, NY, with her family.

• Rebbetzin Dr. Adina Shmidman
  The Introduction to Chumash Rashi Never Wrote Watch Now! Thursday, May 18th at 12pm EDT More about this speaker

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  Rebbetzin Dr. Adina Shmidman

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  Rebbetzin Dr. Adina Shmidman is the founding director of the OU Women’s Initiative. She is a community leader with over three decades of teaching experience in New York, Alabama and Pennsylvania. She received a PhD in Educational Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, MS in School Psychology from Queens College and MA in Jewish Education and a Certificate in Educational Technology from Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University.  She received a Teacher’s Certificate from Beth Jacob Seminary (BJJ).  She is the rebbetzin of the Lower Merion Synagogue as well as the co-chair of the Lower Merion Community Mikvah in Bala Cynwyd, PA.  She is a kallah teacher and mikvah attendant.  She and her husband, Rabbi Avraham Shmidman, live in Bala Cynwyd, PA and are the parents of four sons. 

• Sharon Liberman Mintz
  The Inside Story of the Sassoon Codex: A Conversation with Sharon Liberman Mintz Watch Now! Thursday, May 18th at 8pm EDT More about this speaker

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  Sharon Liberman Mintz

  Senior Judaica Consultant, Sotheby’s New York