Upcoming Community Events
You are invited to the 2024 Harry Kay Leadership Summit: There is A Way Forward: Building A More Just & Loving Society, with Rabbi Sharon Brous.
The event will be held on Tuesday, November 19, from 7:00-8:30 pm, at the Metropolitan Club & Ballroom (5418 Wayzata Blvd, Golden Valley, MN 55416). Sharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR, a leading-edge Jewish community based in Los Angeles, and author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Heal Our Hearts and Mend Our Broken World, a national bestseller.
Brous offered the invocation at the Democratic National Convention in 2024, led the Hanukkah candle lighting with the Vice President and Second Gentleman in 2023, and the White House Passover Seder in 2021. She blessed President Biden and Vice President Harris at the Inaugural National Prayer Service in 2021, and in 2013, she blessed President Obama and Vice President Biden. She was named #1 on the Newsweek/The Daily Beast list of most influential Rabbis in America and has been recognized by The Forward and Jerusalem Post as among the most influential Jews today. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.
*This is a community-wide event and is free of cost.*
Practical Teshuvah
With Pam Winthrop Lauer & Rabbi Debra Rappaport
During the month of Elul leading up to Rosh Hashanah and the 10 Days of Awe connecting the Jewish new year with Yom Kippur, we have a special call to take the time to reflect. The primary work of the season is teshuvah, turning and returning to the best we can be. But how do we really do teshuvah? These three sessions will give participants knowledge, practice and tools for teshuvah that connects us more deeply with the people we care about.
Session 1: The Tool Set: Jewish Texts and Nonviolent Communication foundations.
Session 2: Practicing Teshuvah: Participants will work with an NVC process, developing practical skills for apologies that reconnect.
Session 3: “What about when I’m the one who needs an apology?” This session will touch on questions including, How do I ask for an apology? How do I loosen a grudge without an apology – or when I’m not ready forgive?
The events on this calendar are not “Beth Jacob” events, although sometimes they may be co-sponsored by or even hosted at Beth Jacob. Rather, they are events in the larger community of which our members may wish to be aware.