Open to all. The theme for Beit Midrash Fall 2024 will be “Visions of Zion.” Each week a different teacher guides us in exploring Zionism through the ages.

September 3: Rabbi Debi Wechsler with Introduction to Visions of Zionism

September 10: Dr. Benjamin Sax on Homeland in the German-Jewish Imagination

September 17: Rabbi Beth Naditch on Israel in Poetry and Song

September 24: Rabbi Gus Buchdahl on Reform Judaism’s Zionism: A portrait of Ambivalence

October 29: Dr. Chris Leighton on Complementary and Contrasting Views of Zion from Christianity

November 12: Rabbi Joshua Gruenberg on Evolving Visions of Zionism Since October 7th

November 19: Rabbi Rachel Sabbath Beit Halachmi on Zionism from Independence through October 7th

November 26: Dr. Hillel Gruenberg on Ahad Ha Am’s Zionism

December 3: Rabbi Avram Reisner on Rabbinic Images of Zion from Talmudic Literature

December 10: Rabbi Jessica Fisher on The Israel We Imagine in Liturgy & Philosophy

December 17: Hazzan Joanna Dulkin on Visions of Zion from the Liturgy and Jewish music