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Valley Beit Midrash Sponsored by: JABURG WILK LEARNING SERIES

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz 2019-2020 President & Dean

Friday-Sunday, August 16-18 Monday, August 5 Thursday, August 15 Rabbi Goldie Milgram Rabbi Sam Intrator Social Justice Retreat Contemporary Jewish Spirituality Transcending Differences & Isela Blanc in the Former Soviet Union Fostering Respect among the Fixing our Fractured Education System 7pm at Temple Chai Jewish People Join us for Social Justice Learning, 1pm at Congregation Beth Israel Reflection and Community Building!

Tuesday, September 10 Sunday, September 15 Monday September 16 SEASON OPENER Rabbi Amitai Fraiman & Professor Rachel Rubinstein Zack Bodner Dr. Erica Brown Contextualizing Antisemitism on Zionism 3.0. What Is It, and College Campuses Time to Change? Jewish Identity Why Is It Important? for the 21st Century 1pm at Temple Chai Conversation & Workshop Native Americans in the Jewish 7pm at Temple Chai 1:30-3:30pm at Temple Chai The First Sherman Minkoff Imagination Memorial Lecture! 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion

Thursday, September 19 Thursday, October 24 Sunday, October 27 Abby Stein Professor Ziony Zevit Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shevit Artson The Intersectionality of Gender and Child Sacrifice: Considering the Almighty? No Way! Embracing the God Jewish Identity Context We Actually Love 1pm at Congregation Beth Israel 1pm at Congregation Beth Emeth 5pm at Congregation Or Tzion From Chassidic Rabbi to Trans Activist of the West Valley THE HAMMERMAN FAMILY 7pm at Temple Solel Letters from the Dead: Three Ancient LECTURE Texts Discovered by Archaeologists 7pm at Temple Chai

Monday, October 28 Tuesday, October 29 Tuesday, November 5 Rabbi Marc Gitler Evonne Marzouk Udi Goren The Hero is a Harlot: A Conversation The Prophetness: The Many Faces of Jerusalem about the Book of Joshua's Most A Modern Story about Rachel, An 1pm at Temple Solel Intriguing Character American Teenage Girl Called to Join a A Walk of the Land - A Photographic Part of a VBM & 929 English Secret Community of Journey of the Israel National Trail 6 part class series on the Prophets. Jewish Prophets 7pm at Congregation Beth Israel 7pm at Temple Chai 7pm at Temple Chai

Monday, November 11 Thursday, November 14 Monday, November 18 Professor Justin Cammy Professor Zvi Zohar Professor Daniel Matt Yiddishland: Then and Now All Jews are Jews by Birth Elijah the Prophet: The Jewish 1pm at the Jewish Worship Group 1pm at Temple Solel Superhero Who Never Died (West Valley) We Were Strangers in Egypt: Our 1pm at The New Shul Why Yiddish Matters Raising the Sparks: Finding God in 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion Attitude as Jews to non -Jewish Strangers the Material World 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion 7pm at The New Shul

Tuesday, December 3 Thursday, November 21 Monday, November 25 Dr. Eddy Portnoy Professor Marc Dollinger Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein Jews and Whiteness Being Inspired by the Religious Geniuses The World of Yiddish Cartoons 1pm at Temple Beth Shalom 1pm at Congregation Beth Isreal of Other Faiths Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinvent 1pm at Congregation Beth Israel (West Valley) "Bad Rabbi" - The Bizzare Tales of the Alliance in the 1960s Luther was an Anti-Semite - What Does 7pm at Temple Solel That Mean For Us? Yiddishland 7pm at Temple Chai 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Learn with Suggested Donation: $18 per event Valley Beit Midrash Tax-Deductible Season Passes All Season! Learn More at www.ValleyBeitMidrash.org Monday December 9 Wednesday, December 18 Monday, January 13 Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein Dr. Nathaniel Berman Rabbi Mary L. Zamore The Torah Case for Reparations “But Now God is Not One”: Kabbalah as The Sacred Exchange; Creating a 1pm at Temple Chai the Cry of a Broken World Longing for Jewish Money Ethic "There's a Riot Goin' On": Redemption" Violence in Rabbinic Thought 1pm at Temple Beth Shalom 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion 7pm at Temple Chai (West Valley) A Poetic Mythology for our Age of Anger? 7pm at Temple Chai Wednesday, January 15 Wednesday, January 22 Thursday, January 23 Professor Mara Benjamin Professor Ra’anan Boustan Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson Obligation and Relationship Collective Sin and Vicarious "Who is a Jew? On Identity, 1pm at Temple Solel Atonement in Rabbinic Peoplehood, & Conversion!" Teachers as Parents, Parents as Martyrology 7pm at Temple Solel Teachers 1pm at Temple Chai 7pm at Congregation Beth Israel Blood on the Floor: Depictions of Violence in Synagogue Mosaics from Sunday, January 26 Roman Palestine Jewish Meditation Retreat 7pm at Temple Chai Rabbi Sarah Leah Grafstein, Thursday, January 30 Embodied Spirituality Monday, January 27 Rabbi Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks, Karen Franklin Reb Mindy Ribner The Untold Story of the Lehman Spiritual Awakening through Integral Honoring the Heart and Wisdom Jewish Meditation, Ten Sefirot and Body of the Feminine Family and its Aid to Refugees: of Light 1 pm at Temple Chai 1933-1945 Reb Mindy Ribner, The Spiritual Healing Kabbalah of Love and Intimacy: 1pm at Jewish Worship Group and Transformative Power of Enjoying the Dance of the (West Valley) Jewish Meditation/The Ecstasy of Masculine and Feminine Tracing Ancestors in Eastern Meditative Kabbalah 7pm at Temple Beth Shalom Europe: Strategies and Examples 10:00am to 6:15pm at Temple Chai (West Valley) 7 pm at Temple Chai

Monday, February 3 Monday, February 10 Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger Thursday, February 6 Professor Shaina Hammerman Marc Chagall and the Artists of the Dirty Jews: Gender and Vulgarity in Soviet Yiddish Theater Saul Austerlitz 1pm at Congregation Beth Emeth of Generation Friends - An Inside Jewish Comedy the West Valley Look at the Show that Defined a 1pm at Temple Chai The Holocaust Before Hitler: The Television Era A Low Down Dirty Shonde: Pogroms of the Russian Civil War 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion Rethinking the Black-Jewish 7pm at Temple Chai Dialogue on TV Thursday, February 13 Monday, February 17 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion Rabbi Michael Lerner Professor David Shyovitz Tuesday, February 18 The Pious Werewolf: Confronting Jennifer Hurvitz Lessons from 53 Years of Social Monstrosity in Medieval Jewish Justice Activism woulda. coulda. shoulda: A Thought Divorce Coach's Guide to Staying 1pm at Temple Solel 1pm at Private Residence Revolutionary Love Till Death Do Us Part: Family Life and Married 7pm at Temple Chai the Afterlife in Jewish Thought 7pm at VBM Offices at Co-sponsored by Mt. Sinai Cemetery Temple Chai 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion Monday, February 24 Sunday, March 1 - Monday, March 2 Tuesday, March 3 Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller Rabbi Mike Moskowitz Rabbi Dr. Elliot Dorff and others Jewish Healing Through the Ages: Violence, Morality and Megillat Allyship as Spiritual Practice Esther 1pm at Temple Chai Theories and Practice March 1 at 1-9pm & March 2 at 9-1pm 1pm at Congregation Beth Israel Gender and Clothing Twas the Best of Times, Twas the 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion Scottsdale Hilton Resort Worst of Times: Antisemitism, Hosted by the Center for Israel & Politics of Resentment Jewish Studies at ASU Thursday, March 12 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion Rabbi Dr. Natan Margalit Emergent Judaism: How an Ancient Tuesday, March 17 Thursday, March 19 Tradition Gets New Ideas Rabbi Shlomo Barya Nadiv Schachter Professor Joy Ladin 1pm at Congregation Beth Emeth Neo Chassidut: What Makes it The Soul of A Stranger. Reading of the West Valley Chassidut and What Makes it Neo? God and Torah from a Transgender Ecological Justice and Judaism: A 1pm at Temple Chai Perspective Deep Shift in Consciousness Zionism, Satmarism, and Kahanism: 7pm at Temple Chai 7pm at Temple Solel Three Sides of One Coin? 7pm at Congregation Beth Israel Tuesday, March 24 - C LOSING EVENT Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger & Wednesday, April 22 Monday, May 13 Shadi Abu Awwad Professor Hava Samuelson Dr. Aviva Zornberg Unlikely Partners for Peace: Judaism and the Enviornmental Crisis "I am a Stranger": Becoming Ruth An Israeli Settler & Palestinian 7pm at Congregation Or Tzion 7pm at Congregation Beth Israel Activist Team up to Foster Painful Hope! 7pm at Temple Chai

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