Must we share beliefs in order to pray together? How much does the intent behind the words we are praying matter? We will explore how prayer can (and can't) unite people across differences.

What do our earliest Jewish texts say about alcohol and intoxication? In this session, Rabbi Drew Kaplan of Jewish Drinking will guide us through rabbinic sources from the Mishnah and Tosefta that explore drunkenness—its dangers, its permissibility, and its role in Jewish life. Together, we’ll examine how the rabbis navigated questions of self-control, joy, and communal norms—and consider how these ancient perspectives might speak to our own relationships with drinking today.

What can Priya Parker and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel have to teach us? Obviously, hosting Shabbat. Through text, discussion, and hands-on learning this cohort will explore the values, the feelings, and the recipes behind how to become a tremendous Shabbat host.

Join us as we dive into Genesis Chapters 16 and 21 to explore the tangled relationships between Sarah, Abraham, Hagar, and God—and what they reveal about belonging, empathy, and moral responsibility.

In a moment when language feels fragile and identity contested, poet Matthew Lippman’s new collection, King of the Jews, written after October 7, confronts grief, joy, and courage. Through an interactive format, Lippman transforms the reading into a living conversation.

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll use the Jewish Studio Process, a unique blend of text study, art-making, and reflective writing, to explore how the opening verses of Bereishit invite us to understand both light and darkness as part of the goodness of creation.

Highlighting Shahn’s religious work and stunning interpretations of the Book of Job, we’ll consider the relationship between Shahn’s political commitments and the mysticism of his later work and discuss how he endeavored to make sense of the uncertainty and suffering of his time.

The Torah of Beyoncé asks: what happens when we treat Queen Bey like a commentator on Torah, and Torah like liner notes to Lemonade and Renaissance? We’ll dive into her music, visuals, and performances alongside Jewish text to unpack themes of liberation, survival, power, and desire.

Can Jewish ethics survive in the Wild West? We'll explore how Jewish writers have reimagined this classic setting in speculative fiction.

Explore the luminous poetry of Kabbalah, where love, longing, and the search for the Divine intertwine. The second class in this 3 part series focuses on Atkinu S’ud’ta, a reimagining of the Shabbat table as wedding feast and marital bed.

In this class we will study how the Jewish tradition of burying the dead immediately after death became a flash point in emerging tensions between Jewish ritual and modern science. We will consider how this fight set the stage for the tensions that still pervade modern Judaism today.

How do we listen to our dreams and honor their guidance? This session will attempt to answer that question in the form of a dream circle based on the Talmud and Rav Kohenet Jill Hammer's book, Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams. Back for a second circle by popular demand!

Who invented the word “diaspora,” and what purpose was it meant to serve? This class will examine ancient Jewish letters which reveal profound disagreements about the diaspora – and about whether the category exists at all.

What is the work of Jewish and Muslim friendships while the ongoing conflict in the Israel-Palestine region continues to impact diaspora communities? We’ll work to disentangle the complications of a robust friendship across religious belief, political affiliation, and the expectations and allegiances of a person’s own faith community.

Join Keshet's Eli Lurie Sobel for our monthly Queer Torah! This month we are recognizing Trans Day of Remembrance with the Kaddish prayer.

What can Priya Parker and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel have to teach us? Obviously, hosting Shabbat. Through text, discussion, and hands-on learning this cohort will explore the values, the feelings, and the recipes behind how to become a tremendous Shabbat host.

From Maimonidies’ rational approach to more modern scholars, we will consider whether a relationship to a vision of the future – messianic or otherwise – is ultimately about knowledge, devotion, interpersonal transformation, or something else entirely.

Explore the modern Yiddish revival through the poetry of Avrom Sutzkever, uncovering how this reclaimed language invites new visions of Jewish memory, identity, and possibility.

During WWII, Henri Matisse and his family defiantly refused to evacuate Nazi-occupied France. Learn about their roles in the Resistance and the prodigious, revolutionary work the artist produced in the face of fascism, violence, and hate.

Join the filmmakers behind Disposable Humanity for an in-depth conversation about their groundbreaking film on the Nazi Aktion T4 program, offering exclusive insights into over 25 years of research and storytelling centered on the voices of disabled people.

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 can Priya Parker and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel have to teach us? Obviously, hosting Shabbat. Through text, discussion, and hands-on learning this cohort will explore the values, the feelings, and the recipes behind how to become a tremendous Shabbat host.

Join Alex Salsberg for hands-on exercises exploring how animation captures and preserves not only personal stories, but also the complex emotions behind them.

Through the lens of a two-thousand-year-old rabbinic tale of trust, betrayal, and defilement, learn about the intersection between intra-communal Jewish law and enforcement, and the secular carceral state.

Discover how Jewish rituals, study, and communal life became timeless resilience strategies, offering lessons for thriving through disruption today.

Explore how Sacks navigated the tension and interplay between the universal values of moral responsibility and the particular commitments of Jewish life and reflect on how Sacks’s thought continues to shape the ethical and strategic foundations of Jewish communal work in our own time.

Via meditation and text study in a progressive engagement with lament, resistance, resilience, and personal revelation, we will emerge fully equipped to withstand the forces that seek to prevent us from becoming our best selves.

This class will explore some of Sacks' ideas around uniquely Jewish approaches to building for a future world and how we can apply those teachings to our own imagined and hoped-for conceptions of the future – Jewish, messianic, or otherwise.

How are the two hits "Let it Be" and "Lu Yehi" related? Join us to explore the Beatles' connection with a key moment in Israeli music.

Darshanit Dr. Miriam Udel and novelist Rachel Barenbaum discuss the history and priorities of the Yiddish children's canon and consider what the stories and poems of fifty to a hundred years ago can offer contemporary Jewish communities.