Learn to Read Hebrew

Dates: Weekly on Wednesdays starting September 4 Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm Mode: Zoom only Faculty: Marc Schwartz Fee: Free for Society Hill Synagogue Members • $54 for the General Public We are offering this class again to help our congregants learn (or re-learn) how to read Hebrew. We use the National Jewish Outreach […]
Nuts & Bolts: A (Re)Introduction to Judaism

Dates: Tuesdays — October 29, November 19, December 10, January 14, February 11, March 11, April 1, April 29, and May 20 Time: 7:00 – 8:15 pm Mode: Hybrid, in-person attendance is encouraged Faculty: Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Fee: $18 for Society Hill Synagogue Members • $108 for the General Public Nuts & Bolts […]
Jewish Wisdom on Character and Leadership Amid Political Change

by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Yet again, I write in response to unfolding developments in one of the most eventful months in electoral politics in modern American history, with reverberations for the Jewish community, for Israel, and for the world. Never in modern history has a sitting president, eligible for another term of office, […]
The Power of Hope: A Cornerstone of the Jewish Experience

by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar There’s one part of my previously emailed d’var torah that I kind of want to take back. In it, I shared the truism that “hope is not a strategy” (juxtaposing it to the notion that “neither is despair”). It is true that hope is not a strategy: if you […]
Independence and Responsibility: A 4th of July Message from Rabbi Kamesar

Independence and Responsibility: A 4th of July Message from Rabbi Kamesar by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar I write this on the cusp of the 4th of July, the date commemorating the establishment of the United States of America through the ratification by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence, a mere three blocks […]