Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Shai Held
Date: Friday, Feb 20, 2026
Start time: noon
Location: History Department Conference Room | 811 S. Cathedral Place
Audience: All are welcome to attend. Limited space, RSVP required.
Join us for a discussion about Rabbi Shai Held’s latest scholarly research. Lunch will be provided to those who register.
Speaker
Rabbi Shai Held -- philosopher, theologian, and Bible scholar-- is president and dean at the Hadar Institute. He received the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education, and has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America and by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of the fifty most prominent Jews in the world. Rabbi Held is the author of "Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence" (2013), "The Heart of Torah" (2017), and "Judaism is About Love" (2024) and he is the host of Hadar's newest podcast, Answers WithHeld.
Sponsor(s): Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies
Event contact: Andrea Wight, wighta@vcu.edu