Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, a groundbreaking scholar of American Jewish history and the visionary chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will speak following Shabbat services and a community Shabbat dinner at Congregation Knesset Israel. Services and talk are free to the public. Dinner is $25 per person.
Understanding the Secret Sauce of 20th Century Conservative Judaism: Conservative Judaism provided a captivating vision for a Judaism—traditional in orientation and embracing of evolutionary change—that captured the hearts and minds of so many twentieth-century American Jews. What made it so compelling—and what can we learn from this as we strive to meet the religious needs of North American Jews in the current moment?
Sponsor: Congregation Knesset Israel, Jewish Theological Seminary of America