Koleinu Beit Midrash Archives
2024-2025:
- Elul Shul: High Holiday Learning
- Studies in Spirituality: Torah in Relationship (with Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti) – online
- Weekly Torah Study (with Rabbi Fredi Cooper) – online
- Lunch & Learn: The Israeli and U.S. Supreme Courts (with Rabbi Adam Zeff & Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti) – online
- Torah B’Tzevah: Torah in Color (with Dina Pinsky, Ph.D.) – in-person
- Jews as Secular Citizens: The Drive for Social Justice (with Rabbi David Teutsch, co-sponsored by Tikkun Olam) – in-person
- Teens, Gender, and Queerness (with Galia Godel) – online
- Malei Shira Kayam: Filling Ourselves with Song like the Sea (with Batya Levine)
- “Shattering the Glass Ceiling:” Jewish Women Call for Change (with Dr. Reena Sigman Friedman, co-sponsored by Women of GJC) – online
- Clergy Study Group: The Limits on Kings (with Rabbi Adam Zeff) – in-person
- Sofrut: Exploring the Sacred Art of Torah (with Rabbi Steph Breitsman, co-sponsored by Men’s Club) – in-person
- Book Talk and Discussion: ‘Milkweed and Honey Cake’ (with Wendy Horwitz, co-sponsored by Dorshei Derekh, HAZAK, & WGJC) – in-person
2023-2024:
- Both/And Thinking: Lessons from the Ancient Rabbis (with Rabbi Adam Zeff & Wendy Smith)
- iEngage: Jewish Values and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Shabbat Liturgy Through a Woman’s Lens – co-sponsored by Women of GJC (with R. Beth Janus)
- Studies in Spirituality: Torah in Relationship (with Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti)
- Weekly Torah Study (with Rabbi Fredi Cooper)
- Lunch and Learn – Legal Ethics: Issues in American and Jewish Law (with Rabbi Reba Carmel and Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti)
- Theology in a Time of Collective Tragedy (with Rabbi Reba Carmel)
- The 12th Commandment: Book Talk (with Daniel Torday)
- Clergy Text Study: Masechet Sofrim (with Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti)
- Demystifying Teen Language Around Gender (with Rabbi Tamara Cohen)
- What Does the Jewish Bible Look Like? The History of the Jewish Bible as a Physical Book (with David Stern)
- Trans Halakha: Intergenerational Learning (with Laynie Soloman)
- Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out (with Rabbi David Jaffe)
- From This Broken Hill I Will Sing to You: The Process/Relational Theology of Brokenness in the Life and Artistry of Leonard Cohen (with Dr. Gary Goldberg)
2022-2023:
- High Holiday Learning
- Centre Wrap: Learn How to Wrap Tefillin (with Student Rabbi Maria Pulzetti)
- Jewish Papercutting (with Mindy Shapiro)
- Beyond the Fundamentals: Exploring Contemporary Judaism (with Rabbi Adam Zeff)
- Torah Scrolls
- The Ethical Writings of Maimonides (with Dr. Julie Klein)
- Lunchtime Mishnah (with Rabbi Adam Zeff)
- Shai Held Book Group
2020-2021:
- High Holiday Learning
- Visions in the Night: Judaism and Dreams, with Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison
- Love Starts the Learning: Raising Jewish Children in the Digital Age, with Deb and Jeff Schein
- Learning and Creating Spiritual Practices for a Tough Time, with Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
- Jewish Ecotheology: Learning and Reflecting on Our Relationship to the Natural World, with Rabbi Nathan Martin
- Creation Theology in the Bible, with Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski
- Exploring Traditionally Radical Talmud with SVARA, with Laynie Soloman
- Reading & Writing Talmud with a Queer, Anti-racist, Feminist in the 21st Century, with Dr. Gwynn Kessler
- Feminist Midrash (with Jess Belasco)
2019-2020:
- High Holiday Learning
- The Studio Series (with Rabbi Bec Richman)
- The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation (with Rabbi Bec Richman)
- Daf Yomi: Learn a Page of the Talmud
- Shir HaShirim – The Song of Songs (Pre-Passover Learning with Rabbi Adam Zeff)
- Virtual Art Beit Midrash
- Reclaiming & Reframing Mikveh (with Rabbi Haviva Ner David)
- My First Look at Jewish Text