Adults
Adult Learning
Ongoing, robust engagement with Jewish tradition, ideas, history, and culture is a central tenet of the Beth Sholom community. We offer a regular schedule of weekly classes and Torah study sessions, complemented by Shabbat Lunch and Learn events, which attract Jewish thinkers from a broad range of fields.
Highlights of the year include:
- Annual Shabbaton, in which our members become our teachers for a Shabbat of retreat, study, and community
- The Rabbi Barry Schaeffer Scholar-in-Residence program, a series of lectures over Shabbat featuring a leading Jewish intellectual
- Artists Beit Midrash, where members meet with a rabbi and artist for text study and then interpret that text in the medium of their choice
- Annual lecture series including the Alfred and Rose Buchman Memorial Fine Arts Lecture, the Ilana Sasson Memorial Lecture, and the M&M Holocaust Program
- Book clubs and discussions - We have many book clubs including Hug Ivri (which reads Israeli novels in Hebrew); the Sisterhood Book Club, and a new Israeli Book discussion which reads Israeli books in translation. We also participate in the One Book, One Community program
- Each spring Congregations Beth Sholom and Rinat Yisrael come together for an Annual Community Beit Midrash where members learn together in hevrutah and a shiur is given by the congregations' rabbis. This event rotates between taking place at Beth Sholom and Rinat Yisrael.
Click here to view recordings of recent past programs.
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Thursday ,
FebFebruary 6 , 2025MiniU Speaker: Rabbi Noam Marans
Thursday, Feb 6th 8:15 PM to 9:00 PM
Christian-Jewish Relations: Where were we? Where are we now? Where do we need to go? Session 1: Two millennia of Christian teachings that demonized and endangered Jews Session 2: Why and how did Christian-Jewish relations improve in the second half of the 20th century? Session 3: The varieties of Christian views of the state of Israel: Pope Francis and others -
Thursday ,
FebFebruary 13 , 2025MiniU Speaker: Rabbi Noam Marans
Thursday, Feb 13th 8:15 PM to 9:00 PM
Christian-Jewish Relations: Where were we? Where are we now? Where do we need to go? Session 1: Two millennia of Christian teachings that demonized and endangered Jews Session 2: Why and how did Christian-Jewish relations improve in the second half of the 20th century? Session 3: The varieties of Christian views of the state of Israel: Pope Francis and others -
Wednesday ,
FebFebruary 19 , 2025Discovering Jewish Identity: Reading Historical Letters
Wednesday, Feb 19th 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM
We will read and discuss letters and correspondence written by Jews from different eras and places. Through this exploration we will learn about their personal concerns, fears and hopes and also gain an insight into the intellectual questions that captured the Jewish imagination over time. Some of the areas we will explore are correspondence between earliest Jewish colonists in the Americas, correspondence with the U.S. Presidents, letters from early settlers in Palestine, an intellectual exchange between Gandhi and Buber and others. -
Thursday ,
FebFebruary 20 , 2025MiniU Speaker: Rabbi Noam Marans
Thursday, Feb 20th 8:15 PM to 9:00 PM
Christian-Jewish Relations: Where were we? Where are we now? Where do we need to go? Session 1: Two millennia of Christian teachings that demonized and endangered Jews Session 2: Why and how did Christian-Jewish relations improve in the second half of the 20th century? Session 3: The varieties of Christian views of the state of Israel: Pope Francis and others -
Tuesday ,
FebFebruary 25 , 2025Poetry Group
Tuesday, Feb 25th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
If you would like to join a group of people who love poetry and enjoy having it in our lives, this poetry class is for you. We'll be reading poems that inspire, excite, move, delight, teach, and so much more. We may share poems that you have written, poems that you have discovered, or poems that we all love. Writers of all backgrounds and interests are welcome. Facilitated by Eillene Leistner -
Wednesday ,
FebFebruary 26 , 2025Discovering Jewish Identity: Reading Historical Letters
Wednesday, Feb 26th 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM
We will read and discuss letters and correspondence written by Jews from different eras and places. Through this exploration we will learn about their personal concerns, fears and hopes and also gain an insight into the intellectual questions that captured the Jewish imagination over time. Some of the areas we will explore are correspondence between earliest Jewish colonists in the Americas, correspondence with the U.S. Presidents, letters from early settlers in Palestine, an intellectual exchange between Gandhi and Buber and others. -
Monday ,
MarMarch 3 , 2025Israeli Book Group
Monday, Mar 3rd 8:15 PM
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron Toby Glick will facilitate the conversation. -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 4 , 2025Mini U - Efrem Reis
Tuesday, Mar 4th 8:15 PM to 9:30 PM
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Wednesday ,
MarMarch 5 , 2025Discovering Jewish Identity: Reading Historical Letters
Wednesday, Mar 5th 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM
We will read and discuss letters and correspondence written by Jews from different eras and places. Through this exploration we will learn about their personal concerns, fears and hopes and also gain an insight into the intellectual questions that captured the Jewish imagination over time. Some of the areas we will explore are correspondence between earliest Jewish colonists in the Americas, correspondence with the U.S. Presidents, letters from early settlers in Palestine, an intellectual exchange between Gandhi and Buber and others. -
Tuesday ,
MarMarch 11 , 2025Mini U - Efrem Reis
Tuesday, Mar 11th 8:15 PM to 9:30 PM
Thu, February 6 2025
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Upcoming Programs & Events
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Feb 9 Purim Shpiel Rehearsals Sunday, Feb 9 9:30 AM |
Feb 9 Past President and Lifetime Trustees Brunch Sunday, Feb 9 10:00 AM |
This week's Torah portion is Parshat Beshalach
Shabbat, Feb 8 |
Candle Lighting
Friday, Feb 7, 5:04 PM |
Tu B'Shvat
Thursday, Feb 13 |
Zmanim
Alot Hashachar | 5:38 AM |
Earliest Tallit | 6:10 AM |
Netz (Sunrise) | 7:01 AM |
Latest Shema | 9:35 AM |
Zman Tefillah | 10:27 AM |
Chatzot (Midday) | 12:10 PM |
Mincha Gedola | 12:36 PM |
Mincha Ketana | 3:11 PM |
Plag HaMincha | 4:16 PM |
Shkiah (Sunset) | 5:20 PM |
Tzeit Hakochavim | 6:01 PM |
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