Upcoming Webinars

We are pleased to share with you the full list of webinars that we are hosting in the coming months. View past webinars here.

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Past Webinars:

• Kaplan, Unmasked – Reading Mordecai M. Kaplan as an “Autistic Hero” with Mati Boulakia-Bortnick (10/11/2026)
• Kaplan, Revelation, and the “Echoing” Voices of Sinai with Rabbi Jeffrey Schein (4/12/2026)
• You Know the Name, Come Meet the Man with Jenna Weissman Joselit (3/24/2026) – sponsored by New York Jewish Week and UJA-Federation of New York (recording requested)
• Who Moved My Holiday? with Rabbi Mitch Smith (3/8/2026)
• Restless Soul: Mordecai Kaplan and the Reinvention of American Judaism, a special three-part Melton School series with Valley Beth Shalom, co-sponsored by the Kaplan Center (February 2026)
• Let them have cosmetics OR How to become the Queen of Persia with Rabbi Elisheva Salamo (2/22/2026)
• Confronting and Planning for Death with Dr. Mel Scult, courtsey of Society for the Advancement of Judaism (1/3/2026)
• Shir Tikva (Song of Hope) with Hadas Wolff-Yitzhak (11/23/2025)
• Healing Ink with Craig Dershowitz (11/16/2025)
• Poems for Our Days with Dr. Rachel Korazim (11/9/2025)
• “For Everything There is a Season”: What Shall Be After with Elyssa Moss Rabinowitz (11/2/2025)
• Reconstructing Hadassah: How Family Influenced Mordecai Kaplan with Sharon Ann Musher (9/14/2025)
• Pirke Mordecai with Yovel recipients Rabbis Lee Friedlander and Arnold Rachlis (5/4/2025)
• Between Father and Daughter: Exploring the Career and Influence of Judith Kaplan Eisenstein with Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton (3/23/2025)
• Tu b’Shevat – Judaism and the Environment with Rabbis Michael Cohen and Fred Scherlinder Dobb (2/9/2025)
• Questions Jews Ask (12/29/2024)
• Tribute Honoring Mel Scult’s 90th birthday (12/8/2024)
• Revaluating the Unetanah Tokef: What Kind of Tzedaka Softens the Harsh Degree? with author Amy Schiller and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling (9/17/2024)
• Celebration and Thanksgiving: A Webinar Honoring Rabbi Jeffrey Schein with Rabbi Mira Wasserman (6/9/2024)
• Democracy and Judaism: Does One Need the Other to Thrive? with Aaron Dorfman, Amy Spitalnick, Rabbis Amy Klein and Bill Plevan, and moderated by Rabbi Elyse Wechterman (3/20/2024)
• Beneath the Surface: Mordecai Kaplan’s Philosophical Commitments Explored with Dr. Nadav Berman and Dr. Rabbi Vered Sakal (2/11/2024)
• Art of the Spirit with Rabbi Richard Hirsh (1/30/2024)
• The Great Kaplanian Report Card: Valley Beth Shalom of California as a Kaplanian Playground with Rabbis Amy Bernstein, Ed Feinstein and Jeffrey Schein on the successes and challenges of implementing the Judaism as a Civilization program. (1/7/2024: Third of a Three Part Series in Honor of the 40th Yahrzeit of Mordecai Kaplan and the 90th Anniversary of Judaism as a Civilization)
• Judaism as a Civilization, The Hanukkah Gift to the Jewish People and World that Keeps on Giving, lecture by Dr. Deborah Waxman of Reconstructing Judaism and response from Dr. Elias Sacks of Jewish Publication Society. Moderated by Dr. Jeffrey Schein. (12/10/2023: Second of a Three Part Series in Honor of the 40th Yahrzeit of Mordecai Kaplan and the 90th Anniversary of Judaism as a Civilization)
• What Remains Revelatory in the 21st Century in Mordecai Kaplan’s Thought? with Drs. Arnie Eisen, David Ellenson, and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, moderated by Dr. Eric Caplan (11/12/2023: First of a Three Part Series in Honor of the 40th Yahrzeit of Mordecai Kaplan and the 90th Anniversary of Judaism as a Civilization)
• Standing with Israel, Pursuing Peace (10/19/2023)
• Kaplan, Musar, Mindfulness and Morals with Drs. Eric Caplan and Mel Scult, Rabbi Marc Margolius, and Elizabeth Caplun, moderated by Rabbi Les Bronstein (9/10/2023)
• Kaplan and Israel: A New, New Zionism with Rabbis Michael Cohen, Barbara Penzner, Gail Shuster-Bouskila, Dennis Sasso, and Dr. Shlomi Ravid (4/23/2023)
• Kaplan and Hebrew with Rabbis Daria Jacobs-Velde, Helen Plotkin, Professor Vardit Ringvalt, and Earl Schwartz (2/26/2023)
• Kaplan, Creativity & the Arts with Rabbi Adina Allen, Joanne Fink, Elizheva Hurvich, and Rabbi Margie Jacobs (1/29/2023)
• Hanukkah and a Friendly Critique of the Notion of Living in Two Civilizations with Rabbis James Greene, Jessica Lott, Jeffrey Schein, and Dr. Eric Caplan (12/11/2022)
• Entering the Heichal (sanctuary) of the Voting Booth: Reflections on Judaism and Democracy with Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, Sarah Hurwitz, and Rabbi Sid Schwarz (10/30/2022)
• God is Here in Kaplanian Context with Rabbi Toba Spitzer (9/13/2022)
• God is Here, Book Club with Drs. Deborah & Jeffrey Schein (8/31/2022)
• Role models of Kaplanian lay leadership today; A discussion among rabbis to mark the yahrzeit of Dan Cedarbaum (6/27/2022)
• The Remarkable Renaissance of Yiddish in Sweden (4/23/2022)
• Dr. Marcia Falk, Mah Nishtana Ha-Haggadah Ha-Zot:  an exploration of my new haggadah, Night of Beginnings (3/13/2022)
• The Natural and Supernatural, The Human and Divine: A Dialogue about the Golem, Artificial Intelligence and Purim with Dr. Jeffrey Schein, Dr. Henry Morris, and Rabbi Lawrence Pinsker (2/27/2022)
• Dr. Tzemah Yoreh, Rabbi Sandy Sasso, and Sarah Brammer-Shlay discuss Sasha Sagan’s For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in our Unlikely World (1/30/2022)
• God and Science, Einstein and Kaplan: a conversation with Rabbi Michael Cohen and Roger L. Price (1/9/2022)
• Eric Caplan: Revisiting From Ideology to Liturgy: New Insights into Mordecai Kaplan as liturgist and the current prayerbooks of Conservative and Reform Judaism (12/12/2021)

For information about the webinars, contact Jeffrey Schein (Jeffrey@KaplanCenter.org) or Eric Caplan (Eric@KaplanCenter.org)