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 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
  • Tuesday ,
    MarMarch  19 , 2024
     
     
    MiniU @ CBS with Dr Phil Keisman

    Tuesday, Mar 19th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
    Jews and the Media: Radical Modernization or an Eternal Tradition?

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  • Thursday ,
    MarMarch  21 , 2024
     
     
    Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky

    Thursday, Mar 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!

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  • Tuesday ,
    MarMarch  26 , 2024
     
     
    MiniU @ CBS with Dr Phil Keisman

    Tuesday, Mar 26th 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
    Jews and the Media: Radical Modernization or an Eternal Tradition?

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  • Wednesday ,
    MarMarch  27 , 2024
     
     
    Finding Poetry in Our Lives

    Wednesday, Mar 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

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  • Tuesday ,
    AprApril  2 , 2024
     
     
    MiniU @ CBS with Dr Phil Keisman

    Tuesday, Apr 2nd 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM
    Jews and the Media: Radical Modernization or an Eternal Tradition?

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  • Thursday ,
    AprApril  4 , 2024
     
     
    Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky

    Thursday, Apr 4th 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!

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  • Monday ,
    AprApril  8 , 2024
     
     
    Book Talk with Alex Sinclair

    Monday, Apr 8th 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
    Alex Sinclair will discuss his book, Perfect Enemy.

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  • Tuesday ,
    AprApril  9 , 2024
     
     
    Pre-Pesach Program - Rabbi Pitkowsky

    Tuesday, Apr 9th 8:15 PM to 9:45 PM

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  • Thursday ,
    AprApril  18 , 2024
     
     
    Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky

    Thursday, Apr 18th 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!

    MORE INFO

  • Wednesday ,
    AprApril  24 , 2024
     
     
    Finding Poetry in Our Lives

    Wednesday, Apr 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

    MORE INFO

 

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