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Pre-high holy days series w/rabbi cytron: finding a life of meaning and purpose (september, 2024)
Pre-High Holy Days Series

Session #1
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Click here to read Yehuda Amichai's poem and Rabbi Cytron's questions (both are included in the recording)

Session #2
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Session #3 
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Listening for God in Torah & Creation with RABBI JONATHAN WITTENBERG (March, 2024)
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​March 26, 2024 Watch Recording
KRISTALLNACHT TO AL-AQSA STORM: A STRAIGHT LINE? WITH RABBI CYTRON (JANUARY, 2024)
Session #1 - From “War Crimes” to Genocide to the Shoah: What’s in a name? 
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Session #2 - Who “owns” the Holocaust?
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Session #3 - After October 7, how do the dots connect?
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pre-high holy days series w/rabbi cytron: Toward 120: mortality & meaning ​(SEptember, 2023) 
Pre-High Holy Days Series

Session #1 - Saying Goodbye: A midrash drama
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Session #2 - The Evolving Faces of Jewish Ritual
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Session #3 - After 120: Immortality, Eternity and Memory
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Rabbi GEOFFREY claussen Visit (May, 2023)
Friday Services D'var Torah: Click here for the video
Saturday Services D'var Torah: Click here for the video
Saturday Lunch and Learn: Click here for the video
DELLHEIM WEEKEND CONCERT (March, 2023)
The concert was March 19, 2023. To view the concert, click here!
Jewish Studies for a Better World Series: Reproductive Rights (march, 2023)
March 11: Repro Shabbat D'var Torah w/Hazzan Dulkin, Rev. Jia Starr Brown, & Rev. Kelli Clement

REPRO SHABBAT ACTION ITEMS FROM REV KELLI CLEMENT:
Action items shared by Rev Kelli Clement during the D'var Torah:
  1. If you have an abortion story or a story of reproductive loss, to the extent that it is safe for you, please tell your story. This is how we destigmatize abortion, separating from the shame that has so often been attached to this form of vital healthcare.
  2. People seeking abortion care, above all, need access to funding. To help make this possible, send your generous donations to: https://www.ourjustice.net/ 
  3. Contact your state lawmakers and urge them to pass the Repro Freedom Codification Act (repeals unconstitutional laws that limit access) HF91/SF70 and the Repro Freedom Defense Act (protects MN providers from out-of-state litigation) HF366/SF165. 
  4. Get involved locally, and stay informed by going to UnRestrict https://unrestrictmn.org/get-involved/ and/or the NCJW MN Website at https://www.ncjwmn.org/ 


March 12: History & Context w/Earl Schwartz
Pre-High Holy Days Series w/Rabbi Cytron (September, 2022)
Pre-High Holy Days Series

Sept 18: Session 1
Sept 25: Session 2
Oct 6: Rabbi Cytron's Yizkor Book
From Sorrow to Celebration: The Overnight Transition from Israel's Memorial Day to Independence Day: Program with Magen Avraham (may, 2022)
May 1, 2022: From Sorrow to Celebration
Rabbi Yosef Baruch Fromer, who leads Adath's sister congregation Magen Avraham in Omer, as he reflects on the meaning of the “transition ceremony, ” which marks the shift from Yom Hazikaron to Yom Haatzmaut, from grief to celebration. Sponsored by Adath's Israel Committee, the Israel Center of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the Foundation for Masorti Judaism.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT ISRAEL? WITH DANIEL SOKATCH (MARCH, 2022)
Exploring our relationship with Israel as Rabbi Kravitz and Daniel Sokatch discuss perspectives from his new book, Can We Talk about Israel? 
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Adath's 137th annual meeting (JUNE, 2021)
Scholar-in-Residence: Sister Mary Boys (november, 2021)
11/18: Thursday Night Panel: Countering Dangerous Religious Ideas, featuring Professor Mary Boys, Professor John Merkle, and Rabbi Barry Cytron (who will also serve as Moderator) • Watch Recording
Panel Discussion featuring panelists Professor Mary Boys (click for bio) of New York's Union Theological Seminary, Professor John Merkle (click for bio) of Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict and Director, Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John’s University, and Rabbi Barry Cytron, Adath's Senior Scholar, who will also moderate the discussion.

11/19: Friday Night Presentation at Shabbat Dinner: Inspired and Compelled by a Sacred Obligation. 7:45 pm, directly following services • Watch Recording

11/20: Shabbat Morning Services-D'var Torah: Questions that 'Touch on the Heart of our Faith': In What Ways Might Christians Be Allies in Countering Antisemitism? •  Watch Recording (1:39:00)
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11/20: Learn after Lunch: Who Knew? Jews and Christians Studying the New Testament Together • 12:45 pm • Watch Recording

11/21: Sunday Presentation: The Church's Post-Holocaust Reckonings: A Response to Mauricio Lasansky’s “Nazi Drawings”, 2 pm in the Adath Sanctuary • Watch recording
Rabbi Barry D. Cytron’s essay in the splendid catalogue from the Minnesota Institute of Art, Envisioning Evil, refers to efforts by scholars and clergy—Jewish and Christian—to “illumine the entangled relationship between religious teachings and the Nazi genocide” (p. 74). In this presentation, I will highlight advances in grappling with this “entangled relationship,” discuss contemporary challenges to building bridges of understanding, and propose possible new directions for American Christians in their relationship with Jews.


Professor Mary Boys Scholar in Residence is sponsored through the generous support of The Sandra and Irwin Mandel Fund of the Adath Jeshurun Congregation

To read Professor Boys' bio, click here.

Related content:
• Visit the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit Envisioning Evil: "The Nazi Drawings" by Mauricio Lasansky
In 1961, coinciding with the televised trial of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Lasansky began a series of drawings to grapple with the Holocaust. Confronted with the atrocities, he said, “I was full of hate, poison, and I wanted to spit it out.” “The Nazi Drawings” are his visceral response to the horrors committed in Nazi concentration camps.)
Exhibit open October 16, 2021 - June 26, 2022
*We encourage everyone to visit the exhibit either before or after our Scholar-in-Residence weekend with Professor Mary Boys.

• Buy Lasansky's exhibit catalogue 
The catalogue includes an essay on the international religious response to revelations about Nazi crimes and their relation to Lasansky’s art from Rabbi Barry Cytron, Adath's Senior Scholar.

• Watch the Virtual Gallery Talk on this exhibit given by Rabbi Barry Cytron, Adath Senior Scholar and Rachel McGarry, associate curator at Mia.
Recording from 10/20/2021.
pre-high holy days series w/rabbi cytron: after the pandemic (September, 2021)
Pre-High Holy Days Series

​Session #3 - HELP! – or what do General Colin Powell, TV’s Jay Leno and a distinguished Iowa poet have in common? On the flexibility of Halachah
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Session #2 - Zooming Through the 21st Century
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Session #3 - Banishment and Return: Rabbi Jeffrey Schein joins Rabbi Cytron for a dialogue about technology and our post-Covid synagogue/spiritual lives
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From vilna to suburbia: searching for a new/old identity (april, 2021)
Chaim Grade and Philip Roth were among the American Jewish community’s most illustrious 20th century authors. Two of their more famous works, Grade’s My Quarrel with Hersch Rasseyner (1948) and Roth’s Eli The Fanatic (1959) intersect each other in intriguing and informative ways. Join Professor Earl Schwartz and Rabbi Barry Cytron for a five-part exploration of these stories and their meanings for 21st century Jewish American life. (Material and log-in info will be emailed to all registrants).

Wednesday, April 14 - Watch Recording
The World Was Ours: Introducing the world of Eastern Europe 
(Note: this is a short follow up to the film)
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View Rabbi Barry Cytron's slide presentation
View Professor Earl Schwartz's slide presentation
Note: Please make sure to watch the film before this session.

​Wednesday, April 21 - Watch Recording
Grade’s My Quarrel with Hersch Rasseyner (new translation by Ruth Wisse)
Read My Quarrel with Hersch Rasseyner
A.J. Heschel essay in which the metaphor of prayer as a flashlight appears
View Rabbi Barry Cytron's slide presentation

Wednesday, May 5
Live Stream of the movie, The Quarrel (90 minutes), starring R.H. Thomson and Saul Rubinek 
7-8:30 pm via Adath Live Stream
NOTE: There is no Zoom program this evening as there is only the live stream of the film on Adath's website. The film will only be available to watch at 7pm central time on Wednesday, April 28.

Wednesday, May 12 - Watch Recording
Comparing the Versions: Story and Film
7-8:30 pm on Zoom
View Rabbi Cytron's Slide Presentation

Wednesday, May 19 - Watch Recording
Read Roth’s Eli the Fanatic and its echoes from Grade’s tale Eli the Fanatic PDF
7-8:30 pm on Zoom
Read poem To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
 passover - the magic of storytelling (march, 2021)
Hope in the Time of Pandemic: An interfaith conversation with Rabbi Barry Cytron & Dr. Martha Ellen Stortz (Aug-sept, 2020)
From the Black Plague to the Pandemic – Have we Evolved? (july, 2020)


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