SAVE THE DATE
Join us for “About the Book: Against the Hounds of Hell by Peter Eisenstadt” online on March 8 from 7-8:30 p.m.
Panelists
- Peter Eisenstadt, Author
- Dr. Walter Fluker, Editor, The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman
- Dr. Shively T. J. Smith, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Boston University School of Theology
- Rabbi Or Rose, Director, Hebrew College Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership
- Nick Bates, Moderator, Assistant Director, Boston University Howard Thurman Center
How to Attend
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Sponsors
While you have undoubtedly learned about the Renaissance greats like Galileo, Michelangelo, Copernicus, and Monteverdi, have you ever wondered about the lives of Jews who lived in the Renaissance, and of Jewish women in particular?
In this one hour lecture, Professor Elisheva Carlebach will present the lives, intrigues, and accomplishments of Jewish women in the age of the Renaissance in their own voices, at least to the extent possible! This lecture will also explore the cultural context of these very human examples and examine why more material about their lives is available than material about Jewish women from earlier times. A beloved cousin of Jill Segal, Professor Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University.
This lecture is proudly sponsored by the The Jillian Segal Memorial Fund at Temple Aliyah in Needham, MA.
Jill Segal z”l was a beloved student at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College.
How to Attend
The lecture will take place on Zoom. Please use this Zoom link or contact Temple Aliyah with any questions.
We invite you to join us for the final Jewish CultureFest multi-generational and interactive workshop: Pesach: The Sweet, the Sour and the Unexpected with Chazzan Danny Maseng.
About the Workshop
Danny Maseng will weave together story, song, and tzimmes to deepen our preparations for Passover 5781.
The spiritual leader of Makom LA, Chazzan Danny Maseng is a playwright, actor, singer, and composer. Danny is also one of the most popular and respected composers of contemporary liturgical and synagogue music. He is the creator of “Spiritual Cooking in the Time of the Plague.” The experience, anchored in the wisdom of Jewish teaching, features storytelling, music and the act of cooking as a spiritual practice, and the ways in which food triggers memories and connects us to our roots and to the world around us.
This workshop is the third in the Jewish CultureFest Series: “Food, Music, and You!” which celebrates the culinary and musical traditions of Jewish life from around the world. Other workshops included programs for Chanukah and Tu B’Shevat.
When
Sunday, March 14 | 4-5:30 p.m.
COST
Free (Although the program is free, we welcome a suggested donation of $18 per household to support future Jewish CultureFest programming). Donate here and select “Metrowest Jewish Culturefest” from the drop-down menu. All donations will contribute to future community-wide Jewish Culturefest events.
Contact Us
For information or questions, please contact Marilyn Stern via email or at (617) 559-8614. Thank you.
Sponsors
Purim Ecstatic Dance – Touch the Other Side
(Or: The AfterParty)
THE STORY
One year ago, following Purim, we stepped into darkness as the pandemic swept across the globe. For one night, the Jewish tradition teaches us to untether from the black bile, to shake off the pain of this past year and indulge in revelry. Join us after the Megillah reading for an exploration of what it means to untether and transcend. Come sober, come drunk, come prepared to dance. Costumes, glitter, and loose clothes to move in are encouraged.
This event is sponsored by the Breath Lab at Hebrew College.
DANCE PARTY DETAILS
FULL MOON OF ADAR: Thursday, February 25 from 9-11 p.m. ET
Free of Charge // You Can Donate to a Worthy Cause Instead!
OUR GUIDES
Lawrence Dreyfuss
Hebrew College Rabbinical Student and Director of Ritual Lab
Lawrence is an international performance artist and first year rabbinical student at Hebrew College. He is a former coordinator with New York Ecstatic Dance and former manager of a high school theater program on the island of Oahu.
Jordan Schuster
Faculty, Director of Mekorot, Rabbinical School of Hebrew College
Jordan was ordained at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in 2018, where he currently teaches courses in Tanakh and Mishna. Since November, Jordan’s found himself possessed by the early 18th century grimoire, Sefer Raziel.
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Join us for a special Hebrew College Open Circle Jewish Learning event: “Community Learning with Tema Smith – American Jews and Whiteness: A Complicated Conversation.”
Where do American Jews fit into the racial landscape of the USA? How do issues of race play themselves out inside and outside our community? Join Jewish diversity advocate, educator, and writer, Tema, for an exploration of the relationship between the Jewish community and whiteness that will prepare participants to have challenging conversations about Jews and race in America.
About Tema Smith
Tema Smith is a diversity advocate, writer and Jewish community builder. She is currently the Director of Professional Development at 18Doors (formerly InterfaithFamily) an organization that empowers people in interfaith relationships to engage in Jewish life and make Jewish choices, and encourages Jewish communities to welcome them. Previously she was Director of Community Engagement at Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto’s oldest synagogue.
Tema is also a contributing columnist at The Forward whose writing has been published in MyJewishLearning, the Globe and Mail, and the Canadian Jewish News. Over the past ten years, Tema has worked to advance the conversation on racially diverse Judaism, working with organizations like Be’chol Lashon, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the Miles Nadal JCC, CJPAC and conducting trainings and presentations for numerous Jewish organizations, including the Boston JCRC, the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, Hillel International, Limmud North America, the JCRC of Greater Washington, the Buffalo JCRC, Hadassah, the AJC, and the ADL.
Tema is also a member of the Nexus Task Force examining the issues at the nexus of Israel and Antisemitism in America hosted at the Knight Program in Media and Religion at the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Join the Gun Violence Prevention Group at Hebrew College as we engage with the greater Hebrew College community in hearing stories of activists within gun violence prevention. We strive to lift up the voices of those most affected by gun violence, all while exploring the intersectionality of faith and social action in gun violence prevention.
Panelists
Donald Osgood, Sr.
Ruth Zakarin
Masika Gadson
Rev. Mark Scott.
Register
Please register here. The Zoom link for the event will be provided upon registration.
Sponsors
This event is sponsored by the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College, and the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.
