Lunch and Learn

Join Jconnect and Rabbi Lauren every Tuesday on Zoom at lunchtime for a class on a different Jewish learning topic! Topics will include how to start a Shabbat practice at home, Jewish gratitude practices, the cycle of the Jewish year, and Jewish thoughts about the afterlife. Feel free to drop in for as many or as few classes as you like!

Register via Zoom.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Winter & Spring Schedule:

12/14: Jewish Visual Art

12/21: Dispelling Jewish Myths

12/28: Tzedakah

1/4: Jewish Humor with special guest Rabbi Ari Ballaban from the Hebrew Union College

1/11: Anatomy of a Shabbat Morning Service

1/18: The Torah Service

1/25: How to take an Aliyah/Misheberach/Birkat HaGomel

2/1: Intro to Chevruta Study

2/8: Kashrut – Keeping Kosher

2/22: Conversion and Affirmation

3/1: The Mikvah

3/8: Holiday Cycle

3/15: Purim

3/22: Pikuach Nefesh

3/29: Tikkun Olam

4/5: Baal Tashchit

4/12: Passover – How to Host a Seder

4/26: So you’ve been invited to a baby naming or a bris: Lifecycle 101

5/3: Weddings and Ketubot + Gittin (divorce)

5/10: Death: Funerals, Mourning, Kaddish, Yahrzeit and Shiva/Shloshim

5/17: Jewish Edot: Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ethiopian, Ashkenazi, Yemenite

5/24: Minority groups in Israel: Beta Israel, Samaritans, Christians

5/31: Shavuot