Past Events

Join us for a potluck Shabbat lunch after davening to welcome our Scholar In Residence Rabbi Amy Eilberg, (the first woman ordained as a Conservative Rabbi by The Jewish Theological Seminary) as our scholar in residence. Rabbi Eilberg will discuss Mahloket Leshem Shamayim, the Sacred Art of Disagreeing. This is a potluck meal, so we invite you to bring food according to the following schedule: If your last name begins with A through D, please bring a salad. If your last…

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s Cabinet approved a bill which would criminalize the use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to Nazi-run extermination camps in occupied Poland. Come here Konstanty Gebert speak about how this law, and other developments, are impacting the Jewish community in Poland.   Gebert is co-founder of the (unofficial) Jewish Flying University, 1979 and, in September 1980 in Warsaw, of an independent white-collar trade union that soon merged with Solidarność. After avoiding interment in…

Join Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky as we explore the Passover Hagaddah in preparation for Pesach. We invite you to bring lunch and your questions to help make your Passover seder unforgettable. Don’t worry, your lunch does not have to be Pesadik.

David Fishman’s new book The Book Smugglers tells the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto inmates who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts--first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets--by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion to literature and art. And it is entirely true! Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters,…