October 11, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm From Brokenness to Healing: Making Meaning through Memoir “From Brokenness to Healing: Making Meaning through Memoir” A Book Discussion with Ellen Blum Barish One afternoon in the spring of 1972, a Mack truck sped through a residential intersection of Philadelphia and collided with a station wagon carrying a young girl and her friend on a ride home from school. The accident shattered the girl’s ...
November 5, 2021 @ 9:30 am - 10:35 am A Close Look at Torah Meeting ID: 880 3271 0378 l Passcode: 785827 Zoom Link
November 5, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Rabbinic Inferno: Hell in Classical Judaism Zoom l Meeting ID: 853 8717 8252 l Passcode: 1224Fridays, November 5 and 12 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. The leading rabbis of American Reform Judaism declared in the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform that “we reject as ideas not rooted in Judaism, the belief … Gehenna (Hell).” Arguing that this claim misrepresents the history of ...
November 8, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Tropical Zion: Jewish Settlements in the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean Zoom l Meeting ID: 851 8455 2019 l Passcode: 1224 Mondays, November 1 and 8 | 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Learn about the Jewish populations of the Spanish speaking Caribbean. In the first session we will discuss the origins and development of Jewish communities in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and how they compare ...
