Step into the shadows of Jewish tradition, where nightmares whisper across the centuries. What do these dark tales, from the Talmud to our own day, teach us about confronting danger and encountering wonder?

Join us for a book talk with Jill Morningstar on Eva Schmidt, a gripping novel about a secretly Jewish woman navigating love and danger in 1933 Berlin.

Join us for an evening of powerful storytelling as contributors to Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage share their work from this luminous new collection.

Opening the day with mindfulness can change everything, helping us live our lives with more clarity, kindness, and ease. Join us Friday mornings as we open our doors early and practice together.

In this lively program, comedian and educator Benji Lovitt takes us on a journey through the uniquely Israeli use of humor as a tool for resilience.

Yiddish lullabies are more than bedtime songs—they carry the sounds of migration, resilience, and love across generations. Join us to sing these beautiful melodies together, explore the stories behind them, and bring their meaning to life. No Yiddish or singing experience required.

Explore the luminous poetry of Kabbalah, where love, longing, and the search for the Divine intertwine. The first class in this 3 part series focuses on Yedid Nefesh, a beautiful love song and the opening prayer of Kabbalat Shabbat.

Discover the untold story of a British sailor whose daring innovations gave rise to the modern drug trade, in conversation with author David Tuch.

Are Jews a race, a religion, an ethnicity, or a nationality? It’s a question that has echoed for centuries, but rarely do we ask it through the lens of American law. This talk examines how American courts have grappled with defining Jewish identity.

Explore the vision of A.D. Gordon, a pioneering thinker of the Second Aliyah, as we delve into his ideas of humane peoplehood, the renewal of Jewish life through nature, community, productivity, and the revitalization of Hebrew.

Author Stav Appel reveals how the Tarot de Marseille may have secretly preserved Jewish teachings during centuries of persecution, uncovering hidden Torah stories, symbols, and rituals in his forthcoming book The Torah in the Tarot (Ayin Press).

Opening the day with mindfulness can change everything, helping us live our lives with more clarity, kindness, and ease. Join us Friday mornings as we open our doors early and practice together.

Opening the day with mindfulness can change everything, helping us live our lives with more clarity, kindness, and ease. Join us Friday mornings as we open our doors early and practice together.

Explore how Hallel’s melodies can help us hold brokenness and joy side by side this Sukkot with composer and prayer leader Sam Tygiel.

Join Keshet's Eli Lurie Sobel for our monthly Queer Torah! This month we are exploring the difficult but important work of creating a ritual for self-forgiven.

במפגש זה נחקור את העולם הסוריאליסטי של ״נימים של תפוז״ – סיפורים על דמויות שהולכות לאיבוד ברגעים אבסורדיים ברחובות תל אביב, סמטאות ירושלמיות ומרחבים מופשטים בין ישראל לאמריקה. נשתמש בספר כנקודת פתיחה לשיחה על ישראליות, זהות, וכמיהה לשייכות בעולם מלא בלבול והפתעות.

Join Elijah Wald to learn about Bob Dylan's rise and impact on music and culture.

Join Dalia Wolfson to explore the remarkable life and legacy of Glikl, one of the only Jewish women to leave us a first-person account of early modern Europe.

Join Harvard Art Museum's Lynette Roth to explore the work of four important Jewish artists living and working in Germany in the early twentieth century.

Opening the day with mindfulness can change everything, helping us live our lives with more clarity, kindness, and ease. Join us Friday mornings as we open our doors early and practice together.

What’s so Jewish about German beer? Learn about—and taste!—our annual beer from Lamplighter Brewery, made for Lehrhaus’ Oktoberfest!

Join Mark Römisch to learn about Bauhaus - “Glass, wood, and light in dialogue with New England’s forests: a journey into the Bauhaus spirit through architecture, photography, and poetry.”

Join Jonah Sidman to raise your voices and raise your glasses to Oktoberfest!

Join weaver, writer, and educator Joshua Kurtz to explore how Anni Albers’ Six Prayers weaves art, memory, and prayer into Holocaust remembrance.

Did you know there’s more than one seder in the Jewish year? In Sephardic tradition, Rosh Hashanah begins with a seder featuring simanim—symbolic foods eaten or blessed in a set order to invite sweetness, abundance, and blessing for the year ahead. Join Sara Gardner as we dive into the history of this flavorful custom and discover how it comes to life each year in the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid. Together, we’ll explore the sources of the tradition, cook and taste recipes from Sara’s debut cookbook, The Rosh Hashanah Seder Cookbook: Stories and Recipes from the Reform Jewish Community of Madrid.

Opening the day with mindfulness can change everything, helping us live our lives with more clarity, kindness, and ease. Join us Friday mornings as we open our doors early and practice together.

Over the course of the 20th century, the Sephardi-Yerushalmi Synagogue became a vibrant center of Arabic music. Popular melodies from across the Arab world were adapted for prayer texts and piyyutim, raising questions around ‘secular’ and ‘foreign’ sources. Join musician, Paytan, and Hazzan Roni Ish Ran for song and story, exploring the musical transformation of Sephardi-Yerushalmi prayer.

From the Bible to “Sex and the City,” Jewish intermarriage has been debated, prohibited, embraced, and redefined. In this class, we’ll explore how attitudes toward intermarriage have shifted over time, using both gender and historical change as lenses.

Elul offers us a moment to reflect on where we are in our relationships and to try to make amends in the relationships in which we are feeling stuck. In this session, we'll begin by studying several key verses from the book of Job, using Job and God’s relationship as a window into our own. Then we’ll turn to a modern feminist midrash—an interpretation of those verses—that explores the ways in which we find ourselves stuck in particular relationships or in our lives in general, caught up listening to a certain harmful voice that holds us back. With God as our model, we’ll use these texts as an opportunity to reflect on our own relationships.

As the High Holidays draw near, we return to the image of the Book of Life—our names inscribed, our destinies recorded. But what does this “book” actually look like? From sapphire tablets to parchment scrolls, we’ll explore how Jewish book arts across the ages have shaped (and reshaped) this powerful symbol.