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Poet, author Joy Ladin explores Torah through the lens of transgender experience
May 10, 2019 | Center for Jewish Learning, Community Engagement, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News
Boniuk-Tanzman Memorial Lecture Will Focus on Identifying Depression
Mar 14, 2019 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series
Spring starts with a wide range of Sh’ma: Listen! speakers
Mar 6, 2019 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series
Featured Events
The Wedding Band: Klezmer as Folk Music in the Old World with Will Soll
Event Date & Time: May 21, 2019 at 7:00 pm
In honor of Sholem Aleichem’s yahrzeit, Will Soll presents a program celebrating the ways the klezmorim contributed to the Old World Jewish wedding with music of varying moods in varying setting. With Andy Curry (bass) and Alyssa Avery (violin).
The Annual Mark Raiffie Memorial Lecture with Rivki Silver
Event Date & Time: June 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Rivki Silver loves to create and connect. She has a degree in music performance, which she has used to teach, perform, and compose across a wide variety of genres, always looking for new opportunities as the needs of her family evolve.
Mysteries of Life, Death, and the World Beyond: A Shabbat and Shavuot Experience with Reb Simcha Raphael
Event Date & Time: June 7, 2019 - June 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D., is Founding Director of Da’at Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy, and Training, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at LaSalle University, and works as a psychotherapist and spiritual director in Philadelphia. Ordained by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a Rabbinic Pastor, he is a member of the Rabbis Without Borders Network, and author of numerous publications including the groundbreaking classic Jewish Views of the Afterlife.