As we navigate uncertain times, our 2021 Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar explored what the Jewish future could look like.
Hundreds of rabbis from across North America and around the world connected across difference for our 2021 Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar (RTS)
Together they immersed in meaningful Torah study investigating a Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future and exploring the big covenantal and aspirational questions facing us in this moment, including: What could a Jewish conversation about Zionism and antisemitism become? What meanings can we develop for hope, for power, and for community?
Dec 3, 2023
What is the Torah of this moment that can help us begin anew?
Dec 3, 2023
What can the collective aspects of the High Holidays mean to us after this year of separation?
Jul 15, 2021
What can the collective aspects of the High Holidays mean to us after this year of separation?
Jul 15, 2021
Rabbi Ed Feinstein explores texts and themes of renewal to inspire High Holiday preparations.
Jul 15, 2021
Through poetry and mystical sources, Melila Hellner-Eshed explores the meaning of Torah in Zohar and Hasidut.
Jul 15, 2021
Christine Hayes explores Talmudic stories that elucidate the complex ethical issues involved when communities navigate difference.
Jul 15, 2021
Biti Roi explores the tradition of reading the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur and the themes of universal repentance.
Jul 15, 2021
Gordon Tucker explores how walls appear between us and the divine through Rabbinic and Hasidic texts, and the soulful music and lyrics of Leonard Cohen
Jul 14, 2021
David Zvi Kalman explores gene editing, artificial intelligence, and the changing worth of human life.
Jul 14, 2021
Elana Stein Hain considers Biblical and Rabbinic paradigms as a means to consider current Jewish responses to antisemitism.
Jul 14, 2021
Sara Yael Hirschhorn traces the history of Zionism and identity politics over the past five decades.
Jul 14, 2021
Noam Zion explores advice from the Torah through the Talmud to the contemporary debate on sexual and emotional needs and the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment and sanctity.
Jul 13, 2021
Drawing from biblical sources and Zionist visionaries, Micah Goodman charts a new course for Zionism that puts Judaism at the center.
Jul 13, 2021
Over two sessions Dani Segal delves into Yehuda Amichai's book, Open Closed Open.
Jul 12, 2021
What is a Torah of Possibility for this moment? Melila Hellner-Eshed leads a rabbinic beit midrash on both the fragility and power of hope in the Jewish tradition.
Jul 11, 2021
What is the Torah of this moment that can help us begin anew?