Sign In Forgot Password

 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
  • Thursday ,
    FebFebruary  6 , 2025
     
     
    MiniU 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

    MORE INFO

  • Thursday ,
    FebFebruary  13 , 2025
     
     
    MiniU 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

    MORE INFO

  • Wednesday ,
    FebFebruary  19 , 2025
     
     
    Discovering 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.

    MORE INFO

  • Thursday ,
    FebFebruary  20 , 2025
     
     
    MiniU 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

    MORE INFO

  • Tuesday ,
    FebFebruary  25 , 2025
     
     
    Poetry 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

    MORE INFO

  • Wednesday ,
    FebFebruary  26 , 2025
     
     
    Discovering 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.

    MORE INFO

  • Monday ,
    MarMarch  3 , 2025
     
     
    Israeli Book Group

    Monday, Mar 3rd 8:15 PM
    The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron Toby Glick will facilitate the conversation.

    MORE INFO

  • Tuesday ,
    MarMarch  4 , 2025
     
     
    Mini U - Efrem Reis

    Tuesday, Mar 4th 8:15 PM to 9:30 PM

    MORE INFO

  • Wednesday ,
    MarMarch  5 , 2025
     
     
    Discovering 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.

    MORE INFO

  • Tuesday ,
    MarMarch  11 , 2025
     
     
    Mini U - Efrem Reis

    Tuesday, Mar 11th 8:15 PM to 9:30 PM

    MORE INFO

 

1
Thu, February 6 2025 8 Shevat 5785