Our monthly Shabbat Seminar program offers BHBE community members the opportunity to explore complex, relevant, and timely topics that touch our lives on personal, ritual, societal, cultural, and religious levels.
Through text-based learning and thoughtful conversation, led by BHBE clergy, expert community members, and outside Jewish organizations, we bring Jewish tradition into conversation with the questions and challenges of contemporary life. Together, we seek to reconcile tradition with modernity—drawing upon the wisdom of our tradition to better understand ourselves, our community, and the pressing issues of our time.
Shabbat Seminars begin at 11:45 a.m., following ReJEWvenate Shabbat services. ReJEWvenate Shabbat Seminars are sponsored by Lisa and Lee Bloom.
October 17
Is Halakhah (Jewish Law) Supposed To Change? What happens when morality, society, and Jewish law
appear to diverge?
December 5
The Chevra Kadisha in an Age of Outsourcing: What We Cannot Leave Behind: Judaism, Loss, and
Human Dignity
January 16
Do I Have to Feel It? Keva, Kavvanah, and the Beautiful Challenge of Prayer
February 20
Is Nature Sacred? Judaism, Creation, and the Human Place in the World: When Judaism calls the world
“creation,” does that change how we experience it?
March 27
Words Matter: How We Talk About Antisemitism: Because confronting antisemitism requires not only
courage but clarity.
