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.
All Events
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Thursday ,
DecDecember 7 , 2023Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky
Thursday, Dec 7th 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join Rabbi Pitkowsky for a discussion about the structures and laws of the three regular weekday prayer services-Shacharit, Minchah and Ma'ariv. Beginners and veteran students of Halachah (Jewish law) and Tefilah (Prayer) are welcome! -
Thursday ,
DecDecember 14 , 2023Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky
Thursday, Dec 14th 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join Rabbi Pitkowsky for a discussion about the structures and laws of the three regular weekday prayer services-Shacharit, Minchah and Ma'ariv. Beginners and veteran students of Halachah (Jewish law) and Tefilah (Prayer) are welcome! -
Thursday ,
DecDecember 21 , 2023Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky
Thursday, Dec 21st 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join Rabbi Pitkowsky for a discussion about the structures and laws of the three regular weekday prayer services-Shacharit, Minchah and Ma'ariv. Beginners and veteran students of Halachah (Jewish law) and Tefilah (Prayer) are welcome! -
Wednesday ,
DecDecember 27 , 2023Finding Poetry in Our Lives
Wednesday, Dec 27th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Finding Poetry in our Lives. 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 -
Tuesday ,
JanJanuary 9 , 2024Mini U with Rabbi Polisson
Tuesday, Jan 9th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Tuesday ,
JanJanuary 16 , 2024Mini U with Rabbi Polisson
Tuesday, Jan 16th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Tuesday ,
JanJanuary 23 , 2024Mini U with Rabbi Polisson
Tuesday, Jan 23rd 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Wednesday ,
JanJanuary 24 , 2024Finding Poetry in Our Lives
Wednesday, Jan 24th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Finding Poetry in our Lives. 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 -
Tuesday ,
FebFebruary 20 , 2024Mini U - Harriet Finck and Miriam Stern
Tuesday, Feb 20th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Tuesday ,
FebFebruary 27 , 2024Mini U - Harriet Finck and Miriam Stern
Tuesday, Feb 27th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Thu, December 7 2023
24 Kislev 5784
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Dec 9 Israel Reflections Shabbat, Dec 9 12:30 PM |
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This week's Torah portion is Parshat Vayeshev
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Candle Lighting
Friday, Dec 8, 4:11 PM |
Erev Chanukah
Thursday, Dec 7 |
Zmanim
Alot Hashachar | 5:39 AM |
Earliest Tallit | 6:12 AM |
Netz (Sunrise) | 7:07 AM |
Latest Shema | 9:27 AM |
Zman Tefillah | 10:14 AM |
Chatzot (Midday) | 11:47 AM |
Mincha Gedola | 12:11 PM |
Mincha Ketana | 2:31 PM |
Plag HaMincha | 3:29 PM |
Shkiah (Sunset) | 4:29 PM |
Tzeit Hakochavim | 5:10 PM |
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