Insights into History
Special Lecture

A general rule of history is that whatever happens in the non-Jewish world eventually happens to the Jews. The advent of science essentially toppled the authority of the Catholic Church, and the rabbinate faced its own set of challenges. Rabbi Wein compares and contrasts how both religions held up under scrutiny, but his most fascinating contrast is within the Jewish world itself – Mendelssohn’s “Reform” versus the Hasidic revolution.