
Events

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.
—
Register for the webinar here:

Renewing Judaism: Past
Join The Shalom Center and ALEPH for Renewing Judaism, a 3-part webinar series reflecting on the past, present, and future of Judaism’s renewal.

Renewing Judaism: Present
Join The Shalom Center and ALEPH for Renewing Judaism, a 3-part webinar series reflecting on the past, present, and future of Judaism’s renewal.

Renewing Judaism: Future
Join The Shalom Center and ALEPH for Renewing Judaism, a 3-part webinar series reflecting on the past, present, and future of Judaism’s renewal.

It Could Have Been Me…The Fast of the Firstborn / תענית בכורים
You are invited to join with Jews– firstborns and others–for prayerful reflection and learning as we seek our spiritual bearings this Pesach season through prayerful reflection, themes of teshuvah, the toll of freedom, and supporting Gazan children.

Christian Nationalism & The Jews
We are living in someone else’s cataclysmic imagination. What happens next? A pre-Purim webinar at the intersection of Christian Nationalism, Christian Zionism, Jews, and the rapture.

A New Jewish Story (and why it’s so desperately needed)
“They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Though we may say it tongue-in-cheek, these words constitute perhaps the core Jewish story of our time. And while it’s cute and sometimes applicable to our holiday narratives, what does it simultaneously obscure?

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.
Register for the webinar here:

RESCHEDULED: For Times Such as These Seasons of Our Joy: The Radical Power of Jewish Holidays to Transform the World
A For Times Such as These book tour event, with the book’s authors in conversation with Rabbi Arthur Waskow on the radical power of Jewish holidays to help transform the world.

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.

Susannah Heschel & Tarek El-Ariss: Talking Decently About War & Peace
Dartmouth professors Susannah Heschel & Tarek El-Ariss talk about how they helped guide the post-10/7 conversation on their college campus.

Keep Our Light Shining Bright: A Pre-Hanukkah Workshop on Staying Resilient and Hopeful in Painful, Challenging Times
A Pre-Hanukkah Workshop on Staying Hopeful in Challenging Times with Cherie Brown & The Shalom Center

Learning from the Flood Story: A Two-Part Webinar Series on Healing the Planet
A special two-part event in October, drawing energy from the biblical story of the Flood - at once both a Godwrestler story and a universal story.

FortyFest: Celebrating The Shalom Center’s 40th Anniversary
To celebrate the first 40 years of The Shalom Center, and to vision the next 40, we are hosting “FortyFest,” a first-of-its kind, virtual Hoshanah Rabbah seder on October 5th from 7-9:30pm ET.

Tisha B'Av Renewed for Temple Earth
Ritual, education, and action in preparation for Tisha B’Av with renowned speakers.

Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising - On Muriel Rukeyser’s “Akiba” with Alicia Ostriker (Session 3 of 3)
This is the first of a three session series entitled, “Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising.”

Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising - On “In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?” with Arlene Goldbard (Session 2 of 3)
This is the third of a three session series entitled, “Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising.”

Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising - On “The Thunder: Perfect Mind” with Rabbi Jill Hammer (Session 1 of 3)
This is the second of a three session series entitled, “Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising.”

The Sacred Earth Virtual Book Launch & “Power for Purpose” Climate Action Workshop
Four contributing authors from the new collection, The Sacred Earth, will converse about how Judaism compels us into action for climate justice and attendees will get to take concrete action as part of The RAC's Power for Purpose campaign.

~ Shavuot Live 2023 ~ Sinai Anew?!What Should the Ten Utterances Be For Our Era?
This Shavuot, what would the 10 Utterances be if they were spoken today, coming from a Sinai Revelation in our own era, and indeed were for all Humanity and all Life on Earth? – a world utterly different from Planet Earth 3,000 years ago?

~ Shavuot Live 2023 ~ Religion in the Revolution: A Theology of Action with Clergy United Against Cop City
This Shavuot, hear from three clergy — two on the ground in Atlanta — who have been active in the #StopCopCity movement, as they unpack the theological roots and religious convictions of their own participation in the movement to protect Atlanta's Weelaunee Forest.

R’ Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 50th Yahrtzeit
Observe AJ Heschel’s 50th yahrzteit through deep learning.

A New Great Miracle - Lighting the Future with Solar-Energy Co-ops
Great Miracle Kick-Off Call