Events

Reb Arthur Waskow Legacy Fund Launch Call
Apr
16

Reb Arthur Waskow Legacy Fund Launch Call

“My greatest dream is for The Shalom Center to continue to thrive into the future.” - Reb Arthur

This Passover, The Shalom Center is launching the Reb Arthur Waskow Legacy Fund, raising $500,000 to ensure Reb Arthur’s legacy lives on for generations to come.

Join The Shalom Center for this launch call on April 16th, the fifth night of Passover.

Reb Arthur will deliver keynote remarks in conversation with life-long activists, friends, and Shalom Center elders, Cherie Brown and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling. Together they will reflect on lessons learned from full and interconnected lives of Jewish justice.

The Shalom Center’s Director, Rabbi Nate DeGroot, will offer opening and closing remarks. And music will be provided by veteran music and movement-makers, Rabbi Shefa Gold, Rabbi David Shneyer, and Jessi Roemer.

Registrants will learn about exciting developments at The Shalom Center related to this campaign and beyond, including ways to share messages of love, admiration, and blessing with Arthur.

We hope this call generously inspires you to make a financial contribution that meets the momentousness of this campaign. There is no fee to attend the webinar.

The webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording.

Please contact events@theshalomcenter.org with any questions, or visit theshalomcenter.org/legacyfund to learn more about the Legacy Fund.

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Tender in the midst of  inward panic
Jan
16

Tender in the midst of inward panic

Though this webinar has passed, register below to receive a recording of the program. After registering, you will receive an automated email with a link to the recording.

Dr. Susannah Heschel in conversation with Rabbi Nate DeGroot, reflecting on selected texts from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in honor of his 52nd yahrtzeit and this historical moment.

The long weekend of January 17-20, 2025 is extraordinary.

It includes Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 52nd yahrtzeit on Parashat Shemot, in which “a new king arises over Egypt that did not know Joseph.” It also contains the formal Inauguration of our next President, and the observance and celebration of MLK Day.

A weekend of prophets and pharaohs of epic proportions and import, we hope this webinar will offer attendees a chance to spiritually ground and intellectually orient toward the weekend and years ahead. Through exploration, reflection, and exegesis of Rabbi Heschel’s writings found in “Tender in the midst of inward panic,” the Heschel reader produced this year by The Shalom Center and Dr. Heschel, Susannah and Nate will unpack the texts and open space to consider their implication on this moment and the years ahead. There will be opportunities for dynamic question and answer.

It is not critical that you read the texts ahead of time, though we believe it may lead to a richer and deeper experience.

The webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording. We invite that you make this and other such programs possible by contributing at whatever level you can below. Please contact events@theshalomcenter.org if finances are a barrier.

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New Diaspora Judaism
Apr
25

New Diaspora Judaism

An online webinar featuring Shaul Magid, author of the new book The Necessity of Exile, in conversation with The Shalom Center’s Rabbi Arthur Waskow, on the transformative notion and practice of a deliberate new Diaspora Judaism to help guide us in the years ahead.

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