Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar Visits Yeshiva University

The Chief Rabbi was welcomed to campus with a performance by YU’s Sephardi Choir before delivering a shiur (lesson) to students in the Glueck Beit Midrash. He then spoke to students in the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies/Mechina Program upon their siyum (completion) of Masechet Tamid and participated in a luncheon with various roshei yeshiva, members of the YU faculty and administration and local Sephardic community leaders.

This was Rabbi Amar’s fourth visit to the YU campus in recent years. His wife, Rabbanit Mazal Amar, delivered a lecture titled “Women’s Leadership According to Chazal” to students on the Israel Henry Beren Campus.

“It is truly a privilege to have Rav Amar in the Yeshiva,” said Rabbi Marc Penner, Associate Dean of RIETS. “So many things come together when he is here: Ashkenazim and Sephardim, Israel and the Diaspora. His visits not only enlighten us, but remind us of how close we are as a people.”

Rabbi Tessone, Director of YU’s Sephardic Community Program said, “Hakham Amar’s visit was particularly exciting this time, because he was here to visit the students of Yeshiva University and also to attend the RIETS dinner.

Every time Hakham Amar visits our students and faculty he captures their attention with fresh insights to Talmudic analysis and to Torah learning. His unique ability to connect in his presentations to people of all ages and to students of varied demographic and religious backgrounds is really remarkable.”