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Please join us for a special Open Beit Midrash panel discussion on Thursday, December 6. The panel will feature four different perspectives from Dr. Carol Diament, Rabbi David Hojda, Rabbi Ethan Linden and

Rabbi David Schuck, with Rabbi Zach Sitkin as the moderator. The focus will be the Jacob’s Ladder Dream Sequence from Genesis Chapter 28 verses 10–22. 

The evening is sponosored by Esther Mildner in memory of her father Irving Elkin and by Drs. Carol and Paul Diament in memory of Carol's mother Jeanette Hemda Goldstein. 

We begin at 7:30 p.m. with drinks and food, followed by learning promptly at 8:00 p.m.

Each week (on alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays), Open Beit Midrash attendees will study Jewish texts—ranging from Chassidic thought to Jewish law—with Beth El’s Rabbi David Schuck and Rabbi Zach Sitkin as well as Rabbi Ethan Linden, the executive director of Ramah Berkshires. In addition to the weekly classes, scholars from around the NY area will teach once a month on topics related to their respective fields—from prayer and ethics to contemporary Jewish issues.

For more information or to sponsor a night of learning, visit bethelnr.org/openbeit or contact Rabbi Sitkin at zsitkin@bethelnr.org.

Our Open Beit Midrash scholar visit will be from Judith Plaskow on

Thursday, December 20. She will present on the topic

“How Jews Talk About God: Finding a God I can Believe In.”

More details to follow.