2026 Bierman Scholar Shuly Rubin Schwartz will lead Havdalah, then lead participants in a text study: "An Old/New Zionism for an Old/New People."

Shuly Rubin Schwartz, a groundbreaking scholar of American Jewish history and a visionary institutional leader, is the eighth chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the first woman to serve in this role since JTS was founded in 1886.