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Preparing Our Hearts for Passover and Easter

Join us IN-PERSON and ONLINE for an exploration of theological, ritual, and vocational commonalities, & differences. Prepare personally for the upcoming holy days and make meaningful connections with your theological colleagues.

Date: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 8:30 am-12:00 p.m.
Location: Temple Beth Zion, 1566 Beacon St., Brookline, MA 02446 OR Online

Vaccination required for in-person attendance.

Event Co-SPonsors

Hebrew College, Boston University, Boston College, Harvard Divinity School, and BTI (Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium)

Schedule

8:30 a.m. — Schacharit (Jewish Morning Service, open to all)
Led by: Joshua Greenberg & Batya Ellinoy, Hebrew College

9 a.m. – Breakfast

9:15 – 9:30 a.m. — Welcome & opening Meditation(s)
Welcome: Dr. Andrew Davis, Boston College STM
Liturgical Dance: Gabriella Makuc (Boston University STH)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. — Plenary Session: “Embodying Hope”
Moderated by: Dr. Stephanie Edwards, BTI

Panelists:
Dr. Dominic Doyle, Boston College STM
Dr. Filipe Maia, Boston University STH
Rev. Dr. Theodore Hickman Maynard, Harvard Divinity School
Rabbi Gita Karasov, Hebrew College

10:30 – 10:40 a.m. — PAUSE

10:40 – 11:30 a.m. – Small Group Discussions
Moderated by Students from Harvard Divinity School, Hebrew College, Boston College School of Theology & Ministry, and Boston University School of Theology

11:30-11:40 a.m. — PAUSE

11:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. — Musical reflection & Closing Ritual
Stephanie Hollenberg, Harvard Divinity School
Dr. Judith Oleson, Boston University STH

A Peek into Hebrew College Teen Beit Midrash

Honi and Moshe: Adaptation and Resilience

Are you curious about what is happening lately at Teen Beit Midrash? Join us on Zoom on March 31, at 7 p.m., for a peek into the wonderful learning that is going on together.

Together we will learn a text that our students have struggled with about Honi, who sleeps for 70 years. We will then compare Honi with another “time traveling” leader and talk about how their responses differ when confronted with the unusual and unexpected.

Rabba Claudia will lead us through these texts and then help us think about how these texts could be relevant to our lives today.

This event is free. Please consider a donation to help keep Teen Beit Midrash at Hebrew College affordable for all who want to be involved.

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Metrowest CultureFest: Purim

Join Hebrew College, Temple Beth Torah, 2Life Communities, Temple Beth Am, Temple Beth Sholom, Congregation Or Atid, and Congregation Beth El, for a special presentation and celebration of Purim through a Sephardic Lens: A Cook and Sing with Sarah Oroeste

Learn history, customs, and the unique musical and culinary traditions of Sephartic Jews and some fabulous interactive learning!

Everyone is welcome to this free virtual event hosted by Shillman House and supported by CJP.

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“Seeking in the Company of Others” Book Launch & Conversation

book cover Join Hebrew College March 23, 7:00-8:30 p.m. (EST) for a conversation with Roslyn G. Weiner PhD STM, a spiritual director at Hebrew College and in the Greater Boston community and author of Seeking in the Company of Others: The Wisdom of Group Spiritual Direction, published by Spiritual Directors International Press, November 2021.

Moderator: Rabbi Or Rose, Founder & Director of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College

Respondent: Dr. Claire Wolfteich, Professor, School of Theology, Co-Director, Center for Practical Theology Boston University.

This fall, under the auspices of the Miller Center and the Center for Practical Theology at Boston University, Weiner initiated a spiritual direction group for future clergy, both Jewish and Christian. The evening will include several respondents commenting on the use of this group work in Interfaith settings and from different faith perspectives.“I wrote this book to share the fruits of 18 years of convening small groups of persons who want to notice more fully the sacred elements of ordinary life. The practice we explore and cultivate is an ancient one called spiritual direction. I have created an innovation to that approach which is universal in its applicability and suitable for people of any religious tradition and/or spiritual leaning.” (Roslyn Weiner)

Roslyn G. Weiner, PhD, STM, a spiritual director and psychologist, has been leading spiritual direction groups and accompanying individuals for nearly two decades. She communicates her passion for the practice of spiritual direction through writing and teaching, but primarily by listening closely for the sacred whisperings within her own soul and the souls of those who invite her to witness their seeking. A member of Temple Emanuel of Newton and the Jewish Community of Amherst MA, she received a PhD in psychology from Yale University and an STM degree from the Boston University School of Theology. Her book, “Seeking in the Company of Others: The Wisdom of Group Spiritual Direction” was published by Spiritual Directors International Press in November, 2021. Read more here.

The event is co-hosted by the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College and the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College.

Honoring Our Interreligious Heroes: Book Launch and Conversation

Interreligious Heroes Cover Join the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College and the Elijah Interfaith Institute for a gathering of learning in celebration of the recently published book, Interreligious Heroes.

Editor, Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein—founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute—will open the event with an overview of the project, and several contributors will share reflections on heroic individuals who inspire their work as scholars, educators, religious leaders, and activists. Among the figures we will explore are the recently deceased Thich Nhat Han, and his friend and pioneering Catholic writer and social activist, Thomas Merton (d. 1968).

The book includes over 40 chapters on an array of outstanding individuals such as Mahatma Gandhi, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (written by Dr. Goshen-Gottstein), Sister Mary Boys, Blu Greenberg, and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (written by Rabbi Or Rose, founder and director of the Miller Center).

This rich and inspiring volume was presented to Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee—a contemporary interreligious hero—on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Panelists

Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, and lecturer and director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, Jerusalem. Ordained a Rabbi in 1977, he holds a Ph.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of Rabbinic Thought.

Dr. Sallie B. King
Dr. Sallie King is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University, USA and Affiliated Faculty at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University, USA. A Quaker and a Buddhist, she is a former President of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, a trustee of the international, interfaith Peace Council, and a member of the Christian and Interfaith Relations Committee of Friends General Conference.

Rabbi Or Rose
Rabbi Or Rose is the founding Director of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College. Before assuming this position in 2016, he worked in various administrative and teaching capacities at Hebrew College for over a decade, including serving as a founding faculty member and Associate Dean of the Rabbinical School. He also has taught for the Bronfman Youth Fellowships, The Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Hebrew College Me’ah community eduction program, and in a variety of other academic, religious, and civic contexts throughout North America and in Israel. His recent publications include: Words To Live By: Sacred Sources for Interreligious Engagement (co-editor, Orbis) and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: Essential Teachings (co-editor, Orbis).

Bishop Frank Griswold
Bishop Frank Griswold served as primate and chief pastor of the Episcopal Church, president of the House of Bishops, president and chief executive officer of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and president or chair of numerous Episcopal Church boards and agencies. He was ordained in 1963 and served three parishes in the Diocese of Pennsylvania before being elected bishop.

Dr. Maria Reis Habito
Dr. Maria Reis Habito is the International Program Director of the Museum of World Religions and the Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute USA. Dr. Reis Habito represents Dharma Master Hsin Tao on the steering committee. She studied Chinese Language and Culture at Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, and received her M.A. in Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich.

Moderators

Rev. Tom Reid
Rev. Tom Reid is the associate director of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership of Hebrew College. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and serves as the pastor of Newton Presbyterian Church. He holds a Master of Divinity (MDiv) magna cum laude from Boston University School of Theology and spent over ten years working in a variety of fields including: clean energy, environmental and green building consulting, and business education.

Peta Jones Pellach
Peta Jones Pellach is an educator with expertise in adult education and dialogue facilitation. She serves as the educational director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. She was a key player in interfaith dialogue in Australia including in the Women’s Interfaith Network, the (Australian) Uniting Church-Jewish Dialogue, the Jewish “conversation” with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, and the Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

Suicide Loss in the Jewish Community: An Evening of Learning

“It is not good for people to be alone.” (Genesis 2:18)

Suicide in the Jewish community affects all of us. Are you interested in understanding suicide loss as an important mental health issue? Have you or someone you know lost a friend or family member to suicide?

Learn about how to raise awareness and respond to the impact of suicide loss in the Jewish community at Jewish Family & Children’s Service (JF&CS) event Suicide Loss in the Jewish Community: An Evening of Learning on Wed., March 2 at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

There will be time for Q&A after hearing from the presenters. Guests can submit questions in chat or on camera.

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Hebrew College and CJP are co-sponsors of this event.

Presenters

Hebrew College alumna Rabbi Chaplain Suzanne Offit`09 and Marjorie Sokoll, M.Ed., social worker, co-facilitators of JF&CS’s Suicide Loss Survivor Support Group
Suicide loss survivors sharing their personal stories
Mary Curlew, LICSW, JF&CS clinician involved with suicide prevention efforts in Greater Boston

Rabbi Suzanne Offit, BCC (Board Certified Chaplain) brings many years of experience as a community rabbi and as a palliative care chaplain in the hospital setting. Rabbi Offit works closely with patients and families in times of crisis offering support, calm, hope and a safe space for reflection and transformation. She is a 2009 graduate of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College.

Marjorie U. Sokoll, M.Ed. is the founding director of the JF&CS Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Jewish Healing, which offers individuals and families support when facing the challenges of illness, loss, or isolation. Marjie has presented locally and nationally on Jewish healing, end-of-life, and bereavement.

Mary Curlew, LICSW, is Director of Mental Health and Aging at JF&CS. Mary has over 20 years’ experience providing mental health services and training in a variety of settings. Her specialties include trauma informed care, older adult behavioral health, caregiver support and holistic approaches to health care. She has advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization Movement Reprocessing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness.

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