Hebrew for Beginners
Dates: Thursdays (weekly), 6:30 – 7:30 pm Mode: Zoom Only Faculty: Marc Schwartz Fee: Included with Society Hill Synagogue Membership • $54 for General Public Beginning: We are offering this class again to help our congregants learn (or re-learn) how to read Hebrew. We use the National Jewish Outreach Hebrew Reading Crash Course, which has […]
Nuts & Bolts: A (Re)Introduction to Judaism
Dates: Tuesdays — October 6, October 20, November 17, December 15, January 26, February 16, March 9, April 13, May 18 Time: 7:00 – 8:15 pm Mode: In-Person (with Zoom possible when necessary) Faculty: Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Fee: $18 for Society Hill Synagogue Members • $108 for the General Public Nuts & Bolts is both […]
A Call To Love With All Our Hearts
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar This past Shabbat, we read the Torah portion in which the Sh’ma is found — perhaps the central liturgical moment in all of Jewish life. The Sh’ma is found in Sefer D’varim, the Book of Deuteronomy, during a speech in which Moses is addressing the Israelite people at the end of their journey together. The People […]
Tishah B’Av: Commemorating Exile, Embracing Wholeness
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Tishah B’Av is nearly upon us. Tishah B’Av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, is the date on which the destructions of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem are commemorated. It is estimated that the first was destroyed in 587 BCE; the second in 70 CE. […]