Tuesdays, 7:00-8:30pm on Zoom – REGISTER BELOW!
Introducing the inaugural Open Beit Midrash series through Koleinu Beit Midrash at Germantown Jewish Centre!
The Open Beit Midrash will offer text-based, hevrutah (partnered)-style classes, each of which will run for three consecutive weeks. Each Tuesday evening, there will be something to learn. If the topic doesn’t pull you, just wait another three weeks for a new class to draw you into the beit midrash (house of study). All texts will be provided in the original and in translation, giving each hevrutah (learning pair) the ability to learn at their own level and pace. The first series will start on November 10, 2020. All sessions will run on Zoom until further notice, from 7:00-8:30pm. Facilitated by a different teacher every three weeks. Questions? Have something you want to teach or learn? Email Rabbi Rebecca Richman: beitmidrash@germantownjewishcentre.org.
Offerings for 5781 (November 2020-May 2021)
Click on any of the classes for more information, and register below.
- Visions in the Night: Judaism and Dreams, with Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison (November 10, 17, & 24)
- Love Starts the Learning: Raising Jewish Children in the Digital Age, with Deb and Jeff Schein (December 1, 8, & 15)
- Learning and Creating Spiritual Practices for a Tough Time, with Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer (January 12, 19, & 26)
- Jewish Ecotheology: Learning and Reflecting on Our Relationship to the Natural World, with Rabbi Nathan Martin (February 2, 9, & 16)
- Creation Theology in the Bible, with Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski (February 23, March 2, & March 9)
- Exploring Traditionally Radical Talmud with SVARA, with Laynie Soloman (April 6, 13, & 20)
- Reading & Writing Talmud with a Queer, Anti-racist, Feminist in the 21st Century, with Dr. Gwynn Kessler ( April 27, May 4, & May 11)