Past Webinars
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with Hadas Wolff-Yitzhak Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) After October 7, Beit Avi Chai launched Shir Tikva (Song of Hope), an online series that brings Israeli musicians together to share the songs that give them comfort in these difficult days. Music has the power to carry both melody and text…
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with Craig Dershowitz Sunday, November 16, 2025 Sometimes, the art you need is the art you embody. Scars can become too painful to see, and transformation must take place at the level of the body, not just the spirit. Healing Ink’s Craig Dershowitz will share with us the groundbreaking programme providing free tattoos to more…
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with Dr. Rachel Korazim November 9, 2025 The calamity of October 7 and the war that followed had left Israel and the Jewish world in shock and despair. The unimaginable became our reality. As more details of the horror unfold, as we are facing the painful daily losses in battle and the plight of the…
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with Sharon Ann Musher September 14, 2025 In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the Bat Mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter of women’s rights, Kaplan’s family, including his wife and four daughters, played a role in shaping his ideas about women, Jewish law,…
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with Elyssa Moss Rabinowitz November 2, 2025 We begin with Ecclesiastes, “For Everything There is a Season”: What Shall Be After. Using post-October 7th lenses, Elyssa Moss Rabinowitz from Kol HaOt Gallery in Jerusalem will explore the third chapter of this ancient text of contrasts through contemporary artistic interpretations of the verses designed by Israeli…
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with Yovel recipients Rabbis Lee Friedlander and Arnold Rachlis May 4, 2025 Join us to hear eminent Rabbis who have attained Yovel status as they reflect on the ongoing and evolving threads of Kaplanian thought that have informed their careers. Rabbi Lee Friedlander is a native Philadelphian who was raised by secular Jewish parents and…
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with Rabbis Michael Cohen and Fred Scherlinder DobbFebruary 9, 2025 Environmental activism from the personal to the communal: two extraordinary voices speak about Kaplan, their own tikkun olam, and how awareness of the fragility of the earth has shaped their actions, careers and voices. Rabbi Michael Cohen is a faculty member of the Arava Institute…
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This year is a very special one. We are celebrating both the 90th anniversary of the publication of Judaism as a Civilization and the 90th birth year of Mel Scult, Kaplan’s biographer. An amazing tidbit: the NYTimes announcement of the publication of this seminal volume came out within days of Mel’s birthdate!! Both of these…
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with author Amy Schiller and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling September 17, 2024 The High Holidays are a time associated with reflection, repentance, and renewal. The Unetanah Tokef prayer, recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur morning, suggests that one of the ways to improve our return to community in the reality of our mistakes is through…
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with Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Ph.D.June 9, 2024 Please join us as we thank Rabbi Jeffrey Schein for his work as Executive Director of The Mordecai Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood, introduce our new Executive Director, Rabbi Elisheva Sachs Salamo, and learn from Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Director of the Center for Jewish Ethics and Associate Professor…