100 Years to Tekhelet Research

December 30, 2013

The Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem

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• • Opening Remarks (Hebrew Video),  (Hebrew Audio Here) Yitzchak Herzog, Israeli Member of Knesset, Opposition Leader and Chairman of the Labor Party, former Minister of Welfare

• • Reflections on my Grandfather (Hebrew Video) (Hebrew Audio Here), Dr. Isaac Herzog, Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College

• • Panel Discussion: Scientific Research on Tekhelet Since Rav Herzog’s Doctorate (Hebrew Video), (Hebrew Audio Here) Prof. Zohar Amar, Dept. Land of Israel Studies and Archeology, Bar Ilan University, Prof. Wayne Horowitz, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Hebrew University, Prof. Ilan Sharon, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University, Dr. Baruch Sterman, Founder, Ptil Tekhelet – Moderator

• • Ptil Tekhelet from Idea to Reality(Hebrew Video), (Hebrew Audio Here), Dr. Ari Greenspan, Founder, Ptil Tekhelet

• • Tekhelet and Life’s Temptations (English Video), (English Audio Here), Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the Orthodox Union

• • New Findings from Wadi Murba’at (Hebrew Video w/ English Subtitles), Dr. Naama Sukenik, Israel Antiquities Authority

• • Overview: “LiTom MeHashamayim” (Hebrew Video) (Hebrew Audio Here), Dr. Baruch Sterman, Founder, Ptil Tekhelet

• • Panel Discussion: Innovation in Halacha (Hebrew Video) (Hebrew Audio Here), Rabbi Menachem Burstein, Director Machon Puah, Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone Institutions, Rabbi Zev Weitman, Head of Kosher Department, Tnuva, Mr. Shlomo Ben Zvi, Publisher, Maariv and Makor Rishon – Moderator

• • Rav Herzog: Halachic Arbiter and Jurist, (Hebrew Video) (Hebrew Audio Here), Judge Neal Hendel, Israeli Supreme Court Justice

• • The Relationship Between Science and Torah in the Writings of Rabbi Herzog, (Hebrew Video) (Hebrew Audio Here), Professor Rabbi Avraham Steinberg, Israel Prize Laureate, Director of Yad Harav Herzog

• • What Motivated the Radzyner and Rav Herzog to Investigate Tekhelet (Hebrew Video) (Hebrew Audio Here), Rabbi Shabtai Rappoport, Head of Beit Midrash, Institute for Advanced Torah Studies, Bar Ilan University

• • Tekhelet and White: The Symbolism and the History (English Video) (English Audio Here), Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, Rabbi, Congregation Shearith Israel, Director, Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University