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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 ,
    JunJune  6 , 2023
     
     
    MiniU at CBS - Rabbi Pitkowsky

    Tuesday, Jun 6th 8:30 PM to 9:45 PM
    Unknown dates in Israeli history: Discuss Israeli history with Rabbi Pitkowsky through the lens of dates that are unknown to many people but that weigh heavily on Israeli history and the Israeli psyche.

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  • Thursday ,
    JunJune  8 , 2023
     
     
    Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky - Conquest, Chaos and Kings

    Thursday, Jun 8th 10:00 AM
    Join Rabbi Pitkowsky as he explores the books of the Former Prophets (beginning with II Samuel.) This class will be held on zoom, no experience studying Tanach is necessary, and all texts will be supplied by Rabbi Pitkowsky.

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  • Tuesday ,
    JunJune  13 , 2023
     
     
    MiniU at CBS - Rabbi Pitkowsky

    Tuesday, Jun 13th 8:30 PM to 9:45 PM
    Unknown dates in Israeli history: Discuss Israeli history with Rabbi Pitkowsky through the lens of dates that are unknown to many people but that weigh heavily on Israeli history and the Israeli psyche.

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  • Thursday ,
    JunJune  15 , 2023
     
     
    Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky - Conquest, Chaos and Kings

    Thursday, Jun 15th 10:00 AM
    Join Rabbi Pitkowsky as he explores the books of the Former Prophets (beginning with II Samuel.) This class will be held on zoom, no experience studying Tanach is necessary, and all texts will be supplied by Rabbi Pitkowsky.

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  • Thursday ,
    JunJune  22 , 2023
     
     
    Learning with Rabbi Pitkowsky - Conquest, Chaos and Kings

    Thursday, Jun 22nd 10:00 AM
    Join Rabbi Pitkowsky as he explores the books of the Former Prophets (beginning with II Samuel.) This class will be held on zoom, no experience studying Tanach is necessary, and all texts will be supplied by Rabbi Pitkowsky.

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  • Monday ,
    SepSeptember  11 , 2023
     
     
    Israeli Book Group

    Monday, Sep 11th 8:15 PM
    Suddenly Love by Aharon Appelfeld

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  • Friday ,
    OctOctober  27 , 2023
     
     
    Moshe Halbertal - SIR

    Friday, Oct 27th (All day)

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