Publishing a Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Shmuel Wygoda, Israel

“In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths smooth”
Proverbs 3:6

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Herzog College wishes to publish a Festschrift in honour of its former president and chair of the department of Jewish philosophy – Dr. Shmuel Wygoda, on the occasion of his retirement and 70th birthday. In addition to his work in the college, Dr. Wygoda initiated the creation of the Beth Midrash for women in Migdal Oz and worked in Jewish education in Europe (France and Italy) and North America.

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Rabbi Daniel Reiser, PhD, grew up in Kiryat Ata, Israel, and studied there in Yavne elementary school and later on in Yavne high school in Haifa. He continued to Ma’ale Adumim Hesder Yeshiva and served as a combat medic in the IDF forces. After finishing his military service he studied both in Kollel HaMivtar in Efrat (and received rabbinic Semicha from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg ZT”L) and earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jewish Thought. Reiser is married + 6 children.

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