Past Adult Education Programs
A Happiness Talk by Sharon Rose
Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 2:00pm
Sharon Rose, a long-time congregant, brought back her Happiness Talk on Zoom. She presented this talk about the importance of happiness a few years back. We all felt the joy and inspiration!
Kleinstein Scholar Dr. Robert Alter: Illuminating the Bible with Literary Brilliance
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 7:00pm
If you missed the live discussion, please click here for a recording of the lecture.
For additional information on Dr. Alter, click here.
For the month of January 2023, Rabbi has a theme for Shabbat services d'vrei Torah: Two or Three Things I'm Learning about Antisemitism.
Part One - d'var Torah, download here.
Part Two - d'var Torah, download here.
Part Three - d'var Torah, download here.
Kleinstein Scholar Professor Harold Foster: The Jewish Story in To Kill a Mockingbird
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00pm
Documents for scholar series, download here.
For additional supplements, download here.
For the month of January 2022, Rabbi has a theme for Shabbat services d’vrei Torah: Jewish Religion, Culture and Politics - Concerns and Intersections.
January 7 - Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist
January 14 - Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America
January 21 - Debbie Friedman’s Creation and Legacy
Conflicts Depicting Race and Ethnicity in Fiction, 1962 and 2021: Roth, Ellison, & Di Donato, click here to watch video.
Lecture Series with Rabbi Berg, American Jews. Part One. Strange Fruit.
December 14, 2021
If you were unable to attend on 12/14, please click here to watch the video.
Billie Holiday Singing Strange Fruit
The Rosenbergs: The Definitive Debate
Chicago Blues Museum Presents Billie Holiday - G-d Bless The Child (film)
Lectures by Michael Walzer, Princeton Institute For Advanced Studies
The State of Israel - What It Means to be Sovereign
The Paradox of National Liberation: India, Israel, and Algeria
The Paradox Illustrated: Zionism Against Judaism
The Paradox Denied: Marxist Perspectives
The Future of National Liberation
Dr. Thomas Weber
April 21, 2021
The acclaimed author of Hitler’s First War and Becoming Hitler will speak on In The Same Field of Vision: Hitler, The Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 and January 6, 2021.
Click here for video of lecture.
Jewish History Film Series
January 21 - February 9, 2021
Click here for schedule, details, and supporting content.
Kleinstein Scholar Sessions (Closed)
A Sojourn in the World of Kabbalah and Zohar
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Rabbi Berg’s Adult Studies
Satan In America (Closed)
Four interconnected history lessons based on Nobel Prize for Literature winner
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel Satan in Goray:
Satan in Goray