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Rabbi Rank as Guest Teacher at Kehillat Shalom

Ezra-Habonim, The Niles Township Jewish Congregation 4500 Dempster St, Skokie

Rabbi Jonah Rank, Rosh Yeshivah of Hebrew Seminary, will be delivering the Shabbat morning sermon at Kehillat Shalom on January 27, 2024. Services begin at 9:45 AM and meet in the chapel at Ezra-Habonim, The Niles Township Jewish Congregation.

Disabilities in the World of the Rabbis

858 W Wrightwood Avenue Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60614 858 W Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago

For as long as there have been humans, we have been differently abled from one another. Come explore texts from different times and places when different rabbis and Jewish laypeople made revolutionary decisions about the treatment of people with disabilities. In assessing these parts of our history, we will learn more about what the evolving Jewish tradition teaches us about our responsibilities towards individuals […]

How Jewish is Democracy?

SketchPad Chicago 4411 N. Ravenswood Ave, Chicago

Our ancestors probably knew the word "democracy" before they heard the word "Judaism." Today many American Jews regard these two philosophies as non-negotiable values. From ancient rabbinic courts to the Knesset (Parliament) in the modern State of Israel, Jewish communities have put different democratic experiments to the test. In an age when so many Americans and Israelis fear for the stability of democracy, what […]

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