2010:
Workshop on CAREGIVING FOR A DISABLED SPOUSE, an intelligent and caring discussion led by expert Dr. Richard Zuckerberg
JEWISH EDUCATION FAIR, featured a debate among Jewish educational leaders about the challenges of providing progressive, pluralistic Jewish education in Brooklyn. Speakers were: Rachel Abrahams, Program Officer of Avi Chai Fo., Rabbi Ellis Bloch, Associate Director, Board of Jewish Education, Yeshiva/Day Schools; and Shellie Dickstein, Chief Program Officer, SAJES
THE STATE OF ISRAEL CONFERENCE: Religious Pluralism in Israel, co-sponsored with Hadassah Brooklyn Region, featured Gershom Gorenberg, noted Israeli author, journalist and blogger (southjerusalem.com); author Dr. Susan Aranoff, Founding Director, Women of the Wall; Rabbi Uri Regev, CEO, Hiddush (hiddush.org) and Rabbi Avi Shafran, Dir. of Public Relations, Agudath Israel.
2009:
GOODSTOCK II, a festival of Tikkun Olam, featuring top acts of lovingkindness all-day event; organ donation and bone marrow transplants, disease prevention and early detection, Hazon, Hechsher Tsedek, Jewish World Watch, Jewish World Service, Mazon, Jewish Fo. for the Righteous, Simon Weisenthal Museum of Tolerance, Chevrah Kadisha, Bikur Cholim, and others.
The Settlements: a screening of Adam Hootnick's 2007 documentary "Unsettled", follwed by a reading of Stephen P. Cohen's analysis of the settlement situation, and a discussion between Doni Remba, Exec. Dir., Jewish Alliance for Change, and Stewart Ain, columnist for the Jewish Week.
Workshop on DEALING WITH OUR ADULT CHILDREN: an evening session led by Social Workers Adina Segal and Allan Magill, and Dr. Howard Honigman on the impact of current economic pressures on our kids' independence, inter- and intra-marriage, in-laws, and Advanced Directives like health care proxies, power of attorney, etc.
2008:
THE BELIEVERS NEXT DOOR: How Mainstream Jews Interface with the Muslim, Evangelical, and Haredi Communities co-sponsored with UJA; Rabbi David J. Forman,
Rabbi Craig Miller, and Ethan Felson; moderated by Rabbi Dan Bronstein
Non-Rhetorical Questions: What's So Great About Monotheism? • What's Wrong With Fundamentalism? • How Could We Love the Germans? • Why Me?(on unjust suffering) • Who Needs to be Chosen? 8-week course, Rabbi Alvin Kass, Rabbi Neil
Gillman, Rabbi Heidi Hoover, Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann
GOODSTOCK, a festival of Tikkun Olam, featuring top acts of lovingkindness all-day event; Jewish World Watch, Halachic Organ Donor Society, Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), American Jewish World Service, plus workshops on Bikur Cholim and Social Action Committees
2007:
Ethical Dilemmas for the Modern Jew 8-week course; Immigration reform, vegetarianism and kashrut, women's right to choose, and environmental activism
CAN WE TALK ABOUT ISRAEL? co-sponsored with HADASSAH, Brooklyn Region; Dr. Sandra Alfonsi, Diane Balser, Ethan Bronner, Ben Cohen, Ken Jacobson, Gary Rosenblatt, Prof. Mark Rosenblum, Rabbi Gordon Tucker, and Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, moderated by Leonard Lopate and Larry Josephson
The Labor of Love: Working toward a Good Relationship workshop;
Dr. Howard Honigman
2006:
Jewish Views of Sexual Diversity; Rabbis Gordon Tucker, Dov Linzer, Leonard Levy, Sarra Lev, and Ayelet Cohen; moderated by Rabbi Joseph Potasnik
Rabbi Neil Gillman on "The Future of Liberal Judaism"
Praying When You Feel, Feeling When You Pray 8-week course; Rabbis Carter, Kelber, Weider, Slome and Goldstein
2005:
Rabbi David Ellenson on "Does Progressive Judaism Have a Future?"
Movie "Promises" at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope for young singles
JJ Goldberg on "Insider Views of the Middle East"
Modern Day Prophets 8-week course; Rabbis Neil Gillman, Benjamin Kreitman, Alvin Kass,
and Niles Goldstein
There But For a Few Years..., on caregiving for aged loved ones workshop;
Dr. Sondra Brandler
2004:
Our Gala Opening Event featuring an address from Rabbi Michael Chernick |