Lunch & Learn: Inspiring Jewish Life on Campus Today

Join Rabbi Emmanuel Cantor of the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale for a lunch and learn.

Together we will explore what it means to empower the next generation of Jewish leaders on campus today. Rabbi Emmanuel will lead us in an interactive Torah study to frame and deepen the questions currently shaping Jewish life on campus, followed by time for open conversation.

RSVPs requested, see below. 

About Rabbi Cantor

Rabbi Emmanuel Cantor serves as Assistant Campus Rabbi at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale—the very community that inspired him to become a rabbi as an undergraduate. He is grateful to honor that legacy by championing today’s students as they shape the future of Jewish cultural, religious, and intellectual life at Yale and beyond.

Rabbi Emmanuel’s Jewish journey reflects the pluralism of Yale’s Jewish community. Raised in a Conservative synagogue, he studied at an Orthodox day school and an Israeli yeshiva, and served as a student rabbi in both Reform and Reconstructionist communities. His path has taken him from leading a rural synagogue in Vermont to supporting post-college young adults in urban Washington, D.C. Before attending rabbinical school, Rabbi Emmanuel worked as a community organizer for Jews United for Justice. He holds a BA from Yale University and received ordination from the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.