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Zachary Baron Shemtob, editor of SCOTUSblog, will discuss the history of the Jewish justices and how Judaism affected them and the Court decisions. He will explain why there seemed to be a “Jewish seat” for a long time and why that may be longer continue.

Note the new date/time is 1:00-2:15 pm on March 8, the first day of Daylight-Saving Time (EDT). Learn about Modern Orthodoxy in America from 1945 to 2025 - its challenges, achievements and possible future. (The book this class is based on is “short-listed” for a National Jewish Book Award.) .......... Bottom of class description shows how to use discount to buy the "Living in Both Worlds" book.

An interactive online authentic kabbalistic 16th century Tu Bishvat seder, but with live music and explanations of the spiritual meaning of the rituals as we taste three types of fruits and drink four glasses of wine.

Cantor Deborah Katchko-Gray uses traditional Jewish ritual music nusach as the base for new synagogue music that is singable, with meaningful English lyrics. She will describe how she developed some of her songs with the new nusach and will demonstrate how to sing them.

Learn basic concepts of Kabbalah on Shabbat and the core Friday evening welcome the Sabbath Lecha Dodi, the beautiful poem by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz of Safed in the 16th Century.

Dona Gracia Nasi was born only 13 years after the forced conversions in Lisbon. But she became the center of the Jewish struggle to survive and strive in the 1500s Europe. She was instrumental in developed a type of “Underground Railroad”, Bible printing in the vernacular, and establishing Jewish community in the Land of Israel.

Before World War I Vienna had one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. Their Jews assimilated into Austro-German culture, but retained a large measure of Jewish identity through religious institutions, Zionism, Jewish nationalism, or ethnic solidarity. The class will also evaluate the extent the play Leopoldstadt may have been great theater but not good history.