Beyond the Golden Rule – Jewish Perspective on Dialogue and Diversity
Saturday, April 19, 12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
by Rabbi David A. Kunin
Most interreligious conferences focus on common themes which all religions share: peace, social justice, and the Golden Rule. Are these commonalities the sum total of religion? Are we really all the same, with just a few unimportant particularities, or are the particularities important? Are they in actuality the essences that define us? Join us on April 19, as Rabbi Kunin leads a discussion on this book which he wrote in 2015. The paperback edition of this book is currently out of print. If you send Rabbi an email and donate $15 to his discretionary fund, he’ll send you a copy of the e-book.
Wolf hunt
Saturday, May 10, 12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
by Ayelet Gunnar-Goshen
Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has always felt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived in the U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on a local synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defense class taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the first time, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging. Then, tragedy strikes again when an African American boy dies at a house party, apparently from a drug overdose. Though he was a high school classmate, Adam claims not to know him. Yet rumors begin to circulate that the death was not accidental, and that Adam and his new friends had a history with Jamal. As more details surface and racial tensions in the community are ignited, Lilach begins to question everything she thought she knew about her son. Could her worst fears be possible? Could her quiet, reclusive child have had something to do with Jamal’s death? Led by Ruth Kohan
additional upcoming DATES & titles
- May 17 – Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gunnar-Goshen, led by Ruth Kohan