September 18, 2026 | 7 Tishrei 5787
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Reimagining Jewish learning and leadership for an interconnected world.
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Parashat Ha’azinu | Candlelighting 6:30 PM EST
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President Anisfeld shares Yom Kippur insights on GBH’s The Curiosity Desk
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Yesterday, September 17th, Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld participated in a conversation on GBH’s The Curiosity Desk, joining program host Edgar Herwick and Lehrhaus Founder Director Rabbi Charlie Schwartz to discuss Yom Kippur and the nature of atonement and forgiveness in Jewish tradition and contemporary life. Through personal anecdotes, rabbinic teachings, and insightful wisdom about modern life, Rabbis Anisfeld and Schwartz captured the deep wisdom and challenging vulnerability of this season in the Jewish year.
Watch the segment on YouTube.
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This 5787 - Renew your commitment Jewish Learning
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As you reflect during this season, we invite you to consider how meaningful Jewish learning can help integrate those reflections into your daily life. Jewish tradition offers rich pathways for exploring our inner lives and wrestling with big questions about the world. Adult Learning invites you to deepen self-awareness, consider new possibilities, and explore how Jewish wisdom can help us live meaningfully. In this new Jewish year, enrich your life through Hebrew College Adult Learning opportunities!
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Learning, Laughing, and Connecting at Teen Beit Midrash
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What does a teenager find in a Jewish learning community? For Suzanne, a year in Teen Beit Midrash has brought new friends, a klezmer band, a Shabbaton, and the chance to explore Jewish texts and traditions with other teens. Read her story below.
Hello! My name is Suzanne. I am 14 years old and I have been at Teen Beit Midrash for a year. In that one year I was able to make wonderful friends and deepen my understanding of Jewish culture, texts, and history. I cannot stress this enough, but one of the best parts about TBM is how fun it is! I never felt bored or like the things we were learning were useless. I loved that the teachers were so open to new ideas.
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For Future Rabbis, Many Paths to One Beit Midrash
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As a new academic year gets underway at Hebrew College, we are delighted to welcome a new cohort of students to our Rabbinical School. Over the coming months, they will find their rhythms in the Beit Midrash, get to know one another and the wider Hebrew College community, and begin the work of rabbinic formation. They arrive with experiences, questions, commitments, and perspectives that they will weave into the fabric of our pluralistic community of learning as they learn, pray, and grow into rabbinic leadership. This cohort has followed many different paths to rabbinical school.
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Considering becoming a Rabbi?
Join us for Ta Sh'ma (Come & Hear) open house. In-person and virtual options.
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Where Hebrew College Alumni, Faculty, & Students are Serving as Spiritual Leaders over these High Holidays
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Once again this year, Hebrew College alumni, students, and faculty are leading High Holiday services across 31 states and around the world—including in Canada, France, Italy, Israel, and South Africa. We're proud to see them bringing Torah, music, commentary, and creativity to a wide range of Jewish communities, congregations, and organizations.
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On Being Joyful (having considered all the facts)
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The drash below was offered by President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld on Rosh Hashanah for the Walnut Street Minyan:
Hayom Harat Olam. Today the world is conceived, gestating, preparing to be born anew. This idea is rooted in an ancient Talmudic debate: Rabbi Eliezer says the world was created in Tishrei. Rabbi Yehoshua says it was created in Nisan...Intriguingly, one thing they both agree on is that Joseph came out of prison on the morning of Rosh Hashanah. When the wilderness of despair feels endless, Joseph’s release from prison offers a reminder that we too are part of a larger story whose outcome we do not know — that we too can be granted relief – unexpectedly – partly through our own efforts, but also as a gift from beyond, that we have not earned and do not understand.
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Teshuvah in the Cathedral
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Daily life is replete with distraction and compromise, not well-constructed for recognizing one’s relation to the universe as a whole. It is difficult, amidst the to-and-fro, to consider that which is all-encompassing and unknowable. But teshuvah comes from some deep human part of us that will not even partially reject the terms of our existence. Teshuvah is how we sign our names. This work is necessary, and yet we flinch from it without proper preparation.
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FREE ONE-HOUR LEARNING
GROW September: There Was Never Another Prophet Like Moses
Wednesday, September 23 | 12-1 PM | Zoom
Join Simon Klarfeld in exploring Moses with fresh eyes as a deeply human leader. Through thoughtful conversation and shared learning, we’ll discover how an in-depth look at Moses continues to illuminate timeless questions about leadership, character, and living with purpose.
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LECTURE SERIES
The Book of Esther: A Lecture Series
Monday, October 5 | 4 Mondays: 10/5, 10/12, 10/19 & 10/26 | 7-8:30 PM | Zoom
Hebrew College is delighted to partner with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to present The Book of Esther, a special lecture series offered in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition, The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt.
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FREE ONE-HOUR LEARNING
GROW October: Exile as Homeland: The Jewish Experience of Diaspora
Wednesday, October 14 | 12-1 PM | Zoom
Join Rabbi Leonard Gordon as he examines two trajectories in Jewish history: the drive to build a homeland in the Land of Israel and the desire to make sense of the Jewish experience of exile and diaspora.
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NEW DATE
FALL ART EXHIBIT
Opening Reception: “Psalm 27: A Dialogue with Text and Art”
Wednesday, October 15 | 5-7 PM | Hebrew College
Join us to celebrate the opening of “Psalm 27: A Dialogue with Text and Art,” which features works by 18 artists responding creatively to this timeless biblical poem. The invitational exhibit underscores our mission to offer creative methods of learning and exploring Torah as well as other Jewish texts and history.
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OPEN HOUSE FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
Ta Sh'ma (Come & Hear) Fall Ordination Programs
Monday, November 16 at Hebrew College | Sunday, December 6 Online
Experience the vibrant pluralistic community of Hebrew College’s rabbinical program. In-person and virtual options.
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Please help open the doors of Jewish learning to students of all backgrounds and ages—and join Hebrew College in making our lives more meaningful, our communities more vibrant, and our world more whole. Your gift of any amount will make a real difference. Make a gift.
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