Community Shabbat Dinner with Dr. Alon Tam
When: Friday, Jan 4 | Services at 4:30pm | Dinner at 5:45pm
Where: B’nai Abraham Chabad
Fee: $25 per person
Start the (Secular) New Year off with friends and community at our community Shabbat Dinner!
Please RSVP to office@phillyshul.com or click on the link below to pay online:
Featuring visiting scholar Dr. Alon Tam who will deliver a lecture on
“The Jews of Egypt in the Twentieth Century”
Dr. Alon Tam is a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and an Israel Institute Visiting Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his PhD. He is a social and cultural historian of the Middle East, who has done research on such topics as the history of coffeehouses in Cairo, Jewish social identities in Egypt, the Judeo-Arabic press in Morocco, as well as film, literature, and food in the Middle East.
