Torah Lishmah
Transforming Reality – The Potential of Leadership Guided by Love
Clarendon RoomEbn Leader In a world torn by violence and division, what form of leadership can guide us to healing? Come learn with Rabbi Ebn ...
Spirituality and Social Justice: Striving for Integration
Dalton RoomOr Rose Drawing on teachings from the traditions of Kabbalah, Mussar, and Hasidism, as well as the writings of such modern religious activists as ...
Touchstone Texts on Leadership
Fairfax RoomRick Jacobs From Rabbi Eleazar in the Talmud to contemporary teachers of leadership including Abraham Joshua Heschel, Marge Piercy, Rabbi Jack Stern, Rabbi Elka ...
How Did Moshe Manage to be Rabbenu to 600,000 Unappreciative Congregants?
Gardner RoomHarold Kushner This text study will look at Moshe as rabbinic exemplar. Drawing from Rabbi Kushner’s book on Moses, entitled, “Overcoming Life’s Disappointments,” we ...
Moses & Hasidism: Reflections on Leadership
Dalton RoomOr Rose Like so many interpreters before and after them, the early Hasidic masters engage the figure of Moses in different ways as they ...
Learning to See an Invisible God
Gardner RoomHarold Kushner Drawing from Parashat Vayera, we will consider how rabbis can help people recognize when God becomes manifest in their lives.
You’re Not Really That Bad, Or Are You: Sin, Wrongdoing and Missing the Mark in High Holy Day Liturgy
Hampton RoomPeter Berg, Eddie Goldberg, Janet Marder, Shelly Marder, Leon Morris, Elaine Zecher Chet, averah, pesha, and avon are all Hebrew words that connote the ...
The Three Themes of the Shofar Service and Their Reverberations Throughout the Days of Awe
Hampton RoomPeter Berg, Eddie Goldberg, Janet Marder, Shelly Marder, Leon Morris, Elaine Zecher Since Rosh HaShanah is called Yom Truah, how does the structure of ...
Finding Our Way to the God of Torah
Berkeley RoomRachel Timoner Lightning on the mountain. Plagues as punishment. War and bloodshed. The God of Torah can be difficult to relate to, even alienating, ...
Revisioning Jewishness: Cosmopolitan Creativity and Jewish Peoplehood
Jefferson RoomDr. Sylvia Barack Fishman This talk is based on Professor Fishman's new research on younger American leaders, social entrepreneurs, and creators of cultural materials, ...
Sea Sick on the Love Boat: Liquid Modernity, Fluid Identity and Nautical Metaphors
Gardner RoomMichael Marmur In this session we will consider themes of liquidity, fluidity and water in Jewish and Western traditions. In particular, a tradition from ...
The Child in the Halakhah (Freehof Institute for Progressive Halakhah)
Hampton RoomWalter Jacobs, Ruth Langer, Brian Stoller The program will discuss “The Child in the Halakhah,” an area rather neglected by the Traditions. Although the ...
Music and the Interiority Complex
Dalton RoomJosh Jacobson Pre-registration is required. Session is capped at 40 participants. We will struggle with some of these questions: Can music create holiness? How? ...
Ahad Ha’Am and the Reform Movement: On the Prospects for Modern Judaism (Taught in Hebrew)
Gardner RoomMichael Marmur In this session, to be taught in Hebrew, we will consider some aspects of Ahad Ha'am's complex relationship with Reform Judaism, focusing ...
Beyond Laughter Through Tears: The Spiritual Power of Jewish Humor
Fairfax RoomMoshe Waldoks Study with Moshe Waldoks, one of Boston’s acclaimed rabbinic leaders and the co-editor of the Big Book of Jewish Humor. The session ...
Judaism Confronting Science
Clarendon RoomDr. Phil Cohen. Dr. Jonathan Crane, Geoffery Mitelman For centuries Judaism understood science to be a partner. Jewish thinkers did not see a contradiction ...