Annual Lecture Series.

About the Annual Lecture Series

Our annual lectures and pre-holiday seminars are community staples, providing insight and inspiration as we progress through the year.

Kick off the year with our annual Rudoff Lecture and Elul Intensives to help prepare for the High Holidays. We then have programming throughout the year—no matter the time of year—including our annual Bohm and Rapoport Lectures along with lectures and seminars around each one of the holidays. Check out our upcoming events below!

Upcoming courses and events

“And It Was On That Night”: How the Gideon Story Revolutionizes Pesach
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“And It Was On That Night”: How the Gideon Story Revolutionizes Pesach

March 23 - March 23, 2025
On Zoom
The Gideon story in the Book of Judges, which unfolds over the nights of Pesach, provides a unique lens through which to consider some important themes in the upcoming Pesach holiday. We will explore how an adolescent Israel, finding its way in the post-Joshua years, is transformed by the very special night “set aside from the six days of Creation” (Talmud RH 11b), and we will reflect on how the lessons from that biblical Pesach might inspire this year’s personal and national redemption.

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