Jul

11 2025

JTS Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz at KI

6:30PM - 9:00PM  

Congregation Knesset Israel 16 Colt Rd
Pittsfield, MA 01201
4134454872
http://www.knessetisrael.org

Contact Pamela Wax
413-445-4872 x16
rabbipwax@knessetisrael.org

$ Cost $ 25.00

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