Lunch and Learn

Tzedakah DInner and Lecture with Joe Reimer: “Is the Biblical Joseph a Hero for our Times?”

Sunday, May 3 | 4:00 pm | Lehrhaus (425 Washington Street, Somerville, 02143) Worship and Study is excited to announce that we will offer a special tzedakah event with Professor Joe Reimer, a great friend and early member of the minyan. The cost of this event is $135 and all proceeds will go to the […]

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Lunch and Poetry Reading with Richard Fein – The Polish Dream Machine

Shabbat March 7 – noon (after services) – Smith Hall – Zoom is available Richard Fein, long time member of the Worship and Study Minyan, is a poet, translator and writer in both Yiddish and English. He has written fourteen books of his own poetry, four books of translations of Yiddish poetry, one book of criticism and two

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Joshua Kurtz – The Wovenness of Things: The Metaphor and Practice of Weaving in Jewish Sacred Texts

Shabbat, January 10 – After Services – Bring a Pareve/Dairy Dish to Share – Zoom Available “Weaving – which consists of the intertwining of disparate threads – symbolically suggests the process of tikkun, or social repair.” – Maurice Berger and Joan Rosenbaum “Sitting at the loom is itself a prayer.” – Kevin Aspaas, Diné Weaver For

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Lunch and Learn with Dr. Susan Kahn – November 22

Bring a dairy/pareve dish to share – Talk begins after services around noon Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel  Rudolphina Menzel (née Waltuch, 1891–1973), was a Viennese-born, Jewish scientist whose pioneering research on canine psychology, development, and behavior fundamentally shaped the ways dogs came to be trained, cared for, and understood. Between the

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