10/27 Commemeration Torah Study with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Course Title: Public Grief: An Act of Love and Path to Justice

Rabbi Sharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR, which launched in 2004 with the goal of reinvigorating Jewish tradition and practice and inspiring people of faith to reclaim a moral and prophetic voice. IKAR, one of the fastest growing and most influential Jewish congregations in the country, is credited with sparking a rethinking of religious life in a time of unprecedented disaffection and declining affiliation. Brous was named #1 on the Newsweek/The Daily Beast list of the most influential Rabbis in America, and has been recognized by The Forward and the Jerusalem Post as one of the fifty most influential Jews.

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Torah Study is part of the third year commemoration honoring the lives lost and the people affected by the attack on three Pittsburgh synagogues – Congregation Dor Hadash, New Light Congregation, and Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha Congregation – on October 27, 2018 (18 Cheshvan 5779). 

All sessions will take place on the Zoom platform and will each be 50 minutes in length. 

Pre-registration for specific sessions is required.  You will be sent a zoom link for each session you register for, 24 hours prior to the session. 

Sessions will take place during six timeslots, on both the English and Hebrew commemorative dates, featuring the following instructors and topics: 

Sunday, October 24 at 3:00 PM

Rabbi Sandra Lawson – Crying Out for Help and Comfort

Rabbi Marianne Novak – Looking Down from Heaven: Views of the Afterlife in our Tradition

Sunday, October 24 at 4:00 PM

Rabbi Yonason Meadows – Resilience as Identity: Our Journey a People from Brokenness to Building

Sunday, October 24 at 5:00 PM

Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal – Judaism Means Optimism

Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld – TBD

Wednesday, October 27 at 11:00 AM

Rabbi Sharon Brous – Public Grief: An Act of Love and Path to Justice

Hazzan Matthew Austerklei – Songs of Ascent: Musical Paths to Healing after Tragedy

Wednesday, October 27 at 12:00 PM

Rabbi Cheryl Peretz – Choosing Hope, Letting Go of Despair

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner – Safety in Solidarity, from Squirrel Hill to the Nation’s Capital

Wednesday, October 27 at 1:00 PM

Rabbi Shai Held – Compassion and the Heart of Jewish Spirituality

Dr. Yael Ziegler – The Book of Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World