On the Shabbat of Dec. 5-6, Netivot Shalom will welcome Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz as the scholar-in-residence. She is in her first year as the Director of General Studies at the Frisch School, a Modern Orthodox co-ed high school in Paramus, New Jersey.

For five years before that, Dr. Schwartz served as Assistant Principal at SAR High School in the Bronx, New York, where she also taught history. She has also taught history of science at Yeshiva and Stern Colleges, having earned a doctorate in History of Science at Princeton University.

On Friday night the topic will be: On Backscatter X-Rays and Shooting an Elephant: A Response to the Responses to the Freundel Crisis (Oneg at 7:15, program at 7:45). On Shabbat morning the topic will be Privilege, Perspective, and the Modern Orthodox Community, following davening and the Kiddush. On Shabbat afternoon, it will be Choosing to be Obligated: The Paradox of Observance in the Contemporary World, following mincha at 3:55 p.m.

The Oneg Shabbat is sponsored by Ken and Gail Fried in commemoration of the yahrtzeit of Gail’s parents Jacob and Frances Lask; Minna Heilpern in commemoration of the yahrtzeit of her father Sydney Horvitz; Martin and Jeanette Heistein in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Marty’s brother Charles Heistein, and Richard and Gail Dukas.

Netivot Shalom is at 811 Palisade Avenue, north of Cedar Lane. www.netivotshalomnj.org