Wondering How Blogs Will Figure Into the Discussion: Summer Beit Midrash Press Release

I recently re-received this press release regarding this summer's Summer Beit Midrash in Boston (which I attended three years ago) and wondering if blogging is going to come up much:

THE CENTER FOR MODERN TORAH LEADERSHIP

Contact Anne Sendor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tel: 781-784-5391 June 11, 2009

Email: ModernTorahleadership@gmail.com

THE CENTER FOR MODERN TORAH LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2009 SUMMER BEIT MIDRASH FELLOWSHIPS

2009 SBM will focus on the theme “Toward a Jewish Ethic for Journalism”

SHARON, MA: The Center for Modern Torah Leadership, the intellectual catalyst of Modern Orthodoxy, is proud to introduce the Fellows for its 2009 Summer Beit Midrash. Fellows include men and women from leading universities, yeshivot, and seminaries with advanced textual skills and a passionate commitment to learning Torah in an environment that welcomes the moral challenges of modernity as spiritual opportunities and sees recognition of each human beings as a Divine Image as a fundamental assumption and telos of Torah study.

The Summer Beit Midrash is an intense and exhilarating learning program that allows Fellows to pursue compelling questions with intellectual rigor and ethical integrity in the framework of a warm and challenging Orthodox community, and to experience themselves as active contributors to the halakhic conversation. This year's seminar, our thirteenth, will center on the theme "Toward an Orthodox Ethic for Journalism." It will run from July 6 – August 10 at Young Israel of Sharon, 100 Ames Street.

SBM is headed by CMTL Dean Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, with an array of distinguished guest lecturers including Rabbi Howard Jachter, author of Gray Matters Volumes 1-3 and a member of the Elizabeth Beit Din and of the RCA Halakhah Commission; Binyamin Appelbaum, reporter on national economic issues for the Washington Post, who, while at the Charlotte Observer, was among the first to spot the emerging foreclosure crisis; and Mark Jurkowitz, Associate Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and former Boston Globe Ombudsman and Media Critic.

SBM Fellows will lead a variety of public learning opportunities during the seminar, including one-on-one study, thematic text-study groups, and formal classes. For more information, please contact Anne Sendor at ModernTorahleadership@gmail.com. For more information about CMTL and its programs, as well as for many terrific articles and audio and video classes, please see www.torahleadership.org.