Monday, June 23 6:30 - 8 PM LOCATION: Temple Israel & Zoom – register for link Part II: Why Death Is Not the End: The Journey of the Soul and the Journey of the Survivor Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman, Temple Israel In a culture that avoids it, planning for how we want to die remains one […]
Join us every Thursday at 10 a.m. at the JCC for engaging Hebrew classes with Yedidya Yasu, the Shaliach from the St. Paul Jewish Federation. These sessions are designed for participants with some prior knowledge of Hebrew. Together, we’ll review the alphabet, strengthen reading and writing skills, and build confidence in basic conversation. No registration […]
Wednesday, July 9 6-8 p.m. Graze Food Hall in the Patio Pit Join J-Pride for our annual Pride Happy Hour! We’ll gather on Wednesday, July 9 from 6-8 p.m. at the Patio Pit at Graze Food Hall (520 N 4th St, Minneapolis). J-Pride will provide light appetizers and drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available). […]
Wednesday, July 9 7 PM LOCATION: Wabasha Brewing TEXT: Mishnah Peah / Prayer for those who serve the community Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm, Beth Jacob Congregation Psychologists tell us that one of the greatest antidotes to loneliness and despair can be found in creating and fostering community. But community is not always easy. It places high […]
Join us every Thursday at 10 a.m. at the JCC for engaging Hebrew classes with Yedidya Yasu, the Shaliach from the St. Paul Jewish Federation. These sessions are designed for participants with some prior knowledge of Hebrew. Together, we’ll review the alphabet, strengthen reading and writing skills, and build confidence in basic conversation. No registration […]
10:30 a.m. on the second Saturday of each month This service is approximately 30 minutes followed by “schmoozing” and a craft/activity for the kids For kids aged 0-6 and their adults and siblings! We begin with a lively Shabbat morning service led by one of our clergy and a songleader, using the children’s siddur (prayer […]
The TaNaKh’s (Hebrew Bible’s) prophetic tradition was unapologetically disruptive, from Moses’s confrontations with the Pharaoh, to Abraham’s confrontation with the God of Israel over the future of Sodom. The Book of Amos exemplifies this aspect of biblical prophecy, characterized by many biblical scholars as a “prophet vs. priest” dynamic. In this series we begin with […]
Wednesday, July 16 7 PM LOCATION: Bet Shalom Congregation TEXT: Eruvin 13b Rabbi David Locketz, Bet Shalom Congregation We will explore the great debate between Hillel and Shammai as to the question, “Would it have been better if humans had not been created?” and how to live a life of meaning since we were in fact created. […]
Join us every Thursday at 10 a.m. at the JCC for engaging Hebrew classes with Yedidya Yasu, the Shaliach from the St. Paul Jewish Federation. These sessions are designed for participants with some prior knowledge of Hebrew. Together, we’ll review the alphabet, strengthen reading and writing skills, and build confidence in basic conversation. No registration […]
The TaNaKh’s (Hebrew Bible’s) prophetic tradition was unapologetically disruptive, from Moses’s confrontations with the Pharaoh, to Abraham’s confrontation with the God of Israel over the future of Sodom. The Book of Amos exemplifies this aspect of biblical prophecy, characterized by many biblical scholars as a “prophet vs. priest” dynamic. In this series we begin with […]
Wednesday, July 23 7 PM LOCATION: Mayim Rabim Congregation & Zoom – register for link TEXT: Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav; Likkutei Moharan section 282 Rabbi Sharon Stiefel, Mayim Rabim Congregation Chassidic master Rabbi Nachman exhorts us to judge others, even the wicked, favorably. Even an evil person has a little bit of good in them, which, when nurtured, […]
Join us every Thursday at 10 a.m. at the JCC for engaging Hebrew classes with Yedidya Yasu, the Shaliach from the St. Paul Jewish Federation. These sessions are designed for participants with some prior knowledge of Hebrew. Together, we’ll review the alphabet, strengthen reading and writing skills, and build confidence in basic conversation. No registration […]
The TaNaKh’s (Hebrew Bible’s) prophetic tradition was unapologetically disruptive, from Moses’s confrontations with the Pharaoh, to Abraham’s confrontation with the God of Israel over the future of Sodom. The Book of Amos exemplifies this aspect of biblical prophecy, characterized by many biblical scholars as a “prophet vs. priest” dynamic. In this series we begin with […]
Join us every Thursday at 10 a.m. at the JCC for engaging Hebrew classes with Yedidya Yasu, the Shaliach from the St. Paul Jewish Federation. These sessions are designed for participants with some prior knowledge of Hebrew. Together, we’ll review the alphabet, strengthen reading and writing skills, and build confidence in basic conversation. No registration […]
Thursday, July 31 7 PM LOCATION: Under the Tent at the Minnesota JCC, Sabes Center Minneapolis TEXT: Lamentations Rabbi Eva Cohen, Or Emet: Minnesota Congregation for Humanistic Judaism Lamentations, one of the Five Megillot (Scrolls) in the Tanakh, mourns Jerusalem’s fall to the Babylonians in 587 BCE. It bears poetic witness to the horrors of war, […]