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

How She Dwells Alone: Reflections on Eicha
Holidays and Annual
Lecture Series

How She Dwells Alone: Reflections on Eicha

August 13 - August 13, 2024
On Zoom

Join us Tisha B’Av afternoon

Can You Reverse the Direction of Mourning? The Laws of Aveilut and the Laws of the Nine Days and Tisha B’Av
Holidays and Annual
Lecture Series

Can You Reverse the Direction of Mourning? The Laws of Aveilut and the Laws of the Nine Days and Tisha B’Av

August 13 - August 13, 2024
On Zoom
Join us Tisha B'Av afternoon
Regrets, Lesser Evils, and Dirty Hands: A Rabbinic Approach to Tisha B’Av
Holidays and Annual
Lecture Series

Regrets, Lesser Evils, and Dirty Hands: A Rabbinic Approach to Tisha B’Av

August 13 - August 13, 2024
On Zoom

This session identifies a theme in the Tisha B’Av story which gives us an opportunity to reflect on our national mourning: concern and regret for decisions and reactions which were absolutely right and yet encompassed some negative consequences for ourselves and others. It is not clear that we should regret these decisions, but many of us do, in any case. Ultimately, the session offers suggestions for concrete teshuva for these difficult choices. In doing so, it attempts to reduce these regrets in general.

Explanatory Kinnot (5784)
Holidays and Annual
Lecture Series

Explanatory Kinnot (5784)

August 13 - August 13, 2024
On Zoom

Join us Tisha B’Av morning for kinnot.

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Access previous lectures through our Library!
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