BZBI is sponsoring a new series of lectures developed by The Rabbinical Assembly (RA), United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.
Registration
ScholarStream gives you the opportunity to learn from some of the world’s leading scholars and engage deeply with our texts and traditions. Each session requires individual registration. A day before the session, you will receive an email with the Zoom link for the class.
Coupon Code
Please use the following coupon code (case sensitive) to register at no cost: BZBIFall20
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Class #1
Hidden Histories and Untold Stories
Tuesdays at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT
Join JTS scholars as they uncover the hidden context around biblical figures and important eras in Jewish history.
- 11/10: Dr. David Fishman on how religious pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewry actually was—or wasn’t
- 11/17: Dr. Alan Cooper on why we stopped caring about Moses’s descendants
- 12/1: Dr. Sarah Wolf on how foreign the beit midrash would feel to the early Rabbis
- 12/8: Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky on what the Bible really had against Jezebel
Class #2
Equity, Forgiveness and Intersectionality
Wednesdays at 10 PM ET / 7 PM PT
Join Ziegler faculty as they explore issues related to race, gender equality, intersectionality, and building a democracy of the future. Download the full descriptions for each Ziegler session here.
- 11/11: Rabbi Cheryl Peretz will examine the centuries old Jewish march towards gender equality and justice
- 11/18: Rabbi Dr. Elliot Dorff will explore the concept of communal forgiveness
- 12/2: Rabbi Dr. Gail Labovitz on what Exodus has to teach us about intersectionality
- 12/9: Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen on building a multiracial democracy
