REGISTRATION CLOSED, WALK UPS WELCOME: ABOUT THIS LECTURE: How can God be encountered in our daily life? Daniel Matt will explore this question with us by teaching passages from Kabbalah and Hasidism on the nature of God, the act of Creation, and the challenge of discovering God in the material world. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Professor Daniel […]
REGISTRATION CLOSED, WALK UPS WELCOME: ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Elijah the prophet appears in the Bible as a fierce champion of God, slaughtering the false prophets of Baal and inspiring the Israelites to reaffirm their belief in YHVH. At the end of his time on earth, according to the Bible, he ascended to heaven in a fiery chariot, […]
Registration for this event is now closed. Walks ups will be accepted. At a moment where the importance of hearing women’s voices in contemporary spaces in business, medicine, the arts, and politics is a growing need, Rabbi Elana Kanter (The Women's Jewish Learning Center) and psychologist Dr. Jennifer Brown (Psychologist & Educator) want to […]
Registration for this event is now closed. Walks ups will be accepted. Sheila Katz Join Valley Beit Midrash as we welcome Sheila Katz for a thought provoking discussion on her latest book, Connecting with the Enemy: A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence. About the Author: Sheila H. Katz, Ph.D, is the author of Connecting […]
Registration for this event is now closed. Walks ups will be accepted. Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld Sharon Cohen Anisfeld has been Dean of the Rabbinical School since 2006. Prior to assuming this position, she served as an adjunct faculty member and then dean of students at the school. After graduating from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical […]
Dr. Rachel Tzvia Back Rachel Tzvia Back was born in Buffalo, New York, the granddaughter of immigrants from Israel. She studied at Yale University, Temple University, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the 1980s, Back returned to Israel, where she has lived ever since. Her poetry collections include Azimuth (2001), The Buffalo Poems (2003), On […]
Registration for this event is now closed. Walks ups will be accepted. Modern and even quite liberal iterations of Hasidism have increasingly become a kind of default Jewish theology for many American Jews. But why should progressive American Jews be interested in Hasidism? What does it offer us that non-Hasidic versions of Judaism […]
Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz A lecture describing Rav Aaron’s alternative Kosher supervision project Hashgacha Pratit that has been making waves in Israel, disrupting the troublesome dynamics between religion and state. Rabbi Aaron is the founder of ‘Hashgacha Pratit’, an alternative community based Kosher food supervision challenging the monopoly of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. His smicha is […]
