Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Marcia Plumb (Read Bio) Dates: 6 Wednesdays, Fall 2024: 11/20, 12/18, 1/15, 2/19, 3/19 & 4/23 Time: 7:30-9:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $240, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by Central Reform Temple Registration:Click here
Mussar is a Jewish spiritual practice that gives concrete instructions on how to live a meaningful and ethical life. Mussar is virtue-based ethics — based on the idea that by cultivating inner virtues, we improve ourselves, offering opportunities for personal transformation through a Jewish lens. This introductory monthly cohort will explore different middot (character traits). No knowledge of Hebrew or prior experience necessary.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Adam Zemel (Read Bio) Dates: 8 Mondays, Fall 2024: 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2 & 12/9 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. ET Course fee: $320, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College Registration:Click here
Jewish life centers the power of narrative as a force for making meaning in the world. In this course, we will use essays by Jewish American writers as a springboard for conversations about the spiritual potential and artistic craft of creative nonfiction. Inspired by these conversations, each participant will draft a personal essay and take part in a workshop for offering and gathering revision-oriented feedback.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Ariella Amshalem (Read Bio) Dates: 7 Sundays, Fall 2024: 11/3, 12/8, 1/26, 2/9, 3/9, 4/6 & 5/18 Time: 10-11:30 a.m. ET Course fee: $280, financial aid is available Location: In Person at Hebrew College Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Hebrew Language Registration:Click here
“Refranes” are Ladino proverbs that help paint a picture of Sephardic culture. We will look at refranes (pronounced “refranehs”) that are food-centric and cook dishes related to the refran. In this way we will explore the community each dish comes from and learn about the significance of the food, or ingredients mentioned in the particular refran.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: Rabbi Natan Margalit (Read Bio) Dates: 5 Thursdays, Fall 2024: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5 & 12/12 Time: 7-9:00 p.m. ET Course fee: $250, financial aid is available Location: Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew College and Co-Sponsored by the North Shore Clergy Group Registration:Click here
How do we find ways to disagree and yet remain friends, or at least civil enough to co-exist in the same society? When does speech go over the line and become unacceptable, and when do we embrace differences of opinion? These are central and vital questions in the current political and social climate. Jewish tradition has much to say about argument, oppression with words, and inclusion verses exclusion from communities. In this course we’ll explore Jewish sources, from biblical to Talmudic to Hasidic, and contemporary writers and thinkers, including Parker Palmer, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Michael Pollen and more.
Program:Hebrew College Tamid Instructor: David Mahfouda (Read Bio) Dates: 6 Thursdays, Fall 2024: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 12/5, 12/12 & 12/19 Time: 7-8:30 p.m. ET Course fee: $240, financial aid is available Location: Hybrid- In person at Hebrew College on 11/7 & 12/19 – all other dates Online via Zoom Hosted by: Hebrew college Registration:Click here
This course is a cooking class, and an investigation of Jewish food-ways across geographies, cultures, and millennia. We’ll be gathering to make a variety of delicious Jewish dishes, paired with reading traditional, contemporary, and anthropological sources about Jewish Food. We will be using recipes from Sara M. Gardner’s syllabus, Cooking Your Jewish Customs.
