Synagogue Scholar & Author Series is back featuring another slate of congregants presenting on a range of interesting topics. All programs begin at 7:30pm in Zimmerman Hall and refreshments will be served. 

2025 - 2026 Sessions:

Wednesday, november 19, 2025 - josh levs

Broadcaster, journalist, and host of the podcast They Stand Corrected, which fact checks the news and fights antisemitism in the media. 

Topic: They Stand Corrected: How to dismantle the media's bias 

Wednesday, december 10, 2025 - baruch stiftel, ph.d. 

Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Tech 

Topic: Romania: a personal journey leads to insights on Jewish history and geo-politics

Wednesday, february 11, 2026 - sara fridovich-keil, Ph.D. & frank (chih-Yuan) Chiu, Ph.D. 

Sara is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech

Topic: Signal Reconstruction for Scientific and Medical Imaging 

Frank is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech

Topic: Game-Theoretic Algorithms for Reliable Interactive Autonomy 

Wednesday, april 15, 2026 - dan elkind

Dan is the author of Dr. Chizhevsky's Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century

Topic: Frayhayt: Jewish Anarchists vs. World War I