Join us for an enlightening conversation with author Ittay Flescher as he invites us to rethink the stories we tell about the Israeli-Palestinatian conflict and to imagine what peace could look like in a land marked by holy stones and broken dreams.

In this three-session course, Naomi will teach about the earth, water and plant-based Sefardi folk traditions explored in her book, Sefardi Herbalism. In part three, Sefardi Herbalism for Birth and End-of-Life, we will learn about earth-based Sefardi amulets and folk customs that were practiced to support community members through the transitions of birth and death.

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.

Uncover what we have to learn from Gen Z about justice, identity, and resilience. Leave with tools to challenge bias, practice real intergenerational solidarity, and maybe even admit that the kids are, in fact, smarter than us.

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 three-session course, Naomi will teach about the earth, water and plant-based Sefardi folk traditions explored in her book, Sefardi Herbalism. In part two, Sefardi Kitchen Herbalism, we will learn about common kitchen ingredients, from chickpeas to coffee, that were important in Sefardi culture and folk healing.

Come learn how one of Israel's biggest pop songs last year, "Tamid Ohev Oti", relates to contemporary Israel as well as a longstanding debate about the role of love and faith in Judaism.

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 class, we’ll explore competition-based reality TV as a modern mirror for timeless Jewish questions. Let's explore what it means to stay human when the cameras are always rolling and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Join us for this workshop where we breakdown the history and poetry of Havdala. Then we’ll roll up our sleeves to get comfortable with and even reinterpret the Havdala elements through the lens of contemporary ritual design.

Join us for an intimate conversation with the author of The Spiral Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II, a haunting and beautifully crafted memoir that blends personal journey, historical investigation, and moral reckoning. This talk invites us to reflect on the power of storytelling to reveal truths that history alone cannot capture.

An open-ended textual exploration of the intrinsic connection between the epic Jewish leader and cultural complexity as well as the dichotomy between universalism and particularism.

In this three-session course, Naomi will teach about the earth, water and plant-based Sefardi folk traditions explored in her book, Sefardi Herbalism. In part one, we will delve into Sefardi beliefs about the evil eye and the rich tradition of invoking the power of the ocean for healing.

Explore how Jewish wisdom guides us through beginnings and endings. Through text study, art-making, and reflective writing, we'll notice the tensions between anticipation and completion, consider what wisdom looks like at each stage, and open creative space to honor what we're ready to initiate, finish, or transform.

Building on insights from her 2022 book, God Is Here: Reimagining the Divine, Rabbi Toba Spitzer will engage texts from Jewish tradition that move us beyond God as “Big Guy In the Sky,” and open up new paths for spiritual exploration. Whether you're comfortable with traditional God language, totally turned off, or somewhere in between, please join the conversation!

Have you ever compared Kratos from God of War to Avraham the Destroyer of Idols or the Traveler from Journey to Moshe the Leader? This class will feature passionate descriptions (and clips!) of video games followed by chavruta study utilizing a variety of Jewish texts and sources.

Explore the luminous poetry of Kabbalah, where love, longing, and the search for the Divine intertwine. The third class in this 3 part series focuses on Ana B’Choach, an acrostic prayer attributed to the early Kabbalists which has been recited for centuries as part of Shabbat and daily liturgy.

Channukah, rooted in resistance to assimilation, has become thoroughly woven into the fabric of the American winter season. Investigate how American law, culture, and public ritual have shaped the way the holiday is understood and celebrated.

What can the choreography of lighting the Hanukkah menorah teach us about sustaining inspiration throughout the year? Explore a selection of the halakhic requirements for kindling the Hanukkah lights and uncover the universal values encoded within these laws.

According to our Kabbalistic tradition, every Hebrew month has a particular set of characteristics that include archetypes, associated tribe, stone, herb, direction, Zodiac sign (mazal in Hebrew), and Hebrew letter. This class will draw on many of our ancient mystical sources, including Sefer Yetizrah, the Zohar, and Chassidic teachings. This will be an ongoing, monthly series. Join for one, join for all!

In this participatory workshop, you will learn a selection of Yiddish songs for Hanukkah, from the cozy to the raucous. No previous experience with Yiddish or with singing is required.

Together we'll look at sources from the Zohar and various Kabbalistic-mystical works and their suggestions for how we can relate spiritually to the candles this Hanukkah and about the Divine need for our light. We'll end with a meditation practice using the candles themselves.

What happens when your light feels insignificant next to God's? Join us to explore a powerful Hanukkah midrash (parable) about a king, a friend, and the surprising way our seemingly "mundane" efforts become essential to divine connection.

Within the memories of Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, there is a town of fools known as Chelm. It is known for its Council, a selection of the wisest members of the community. Come join a class where we survey various musical adaptations of Chelm stories and enjoy a live reading of my own mini-chamber opera "The Buttered Bread of Chelm," accompanied on accordion.

The so-called "December Dilemma" has plagued the Jewish community and interfaith couples for decades. Learn about how Chanukah "grew up" alongside Christmas and discover fresh insights about how to turn the dilemma into delights.

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.

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.