The Jewish people have a long historical memory. As we work to build the Jewish future, we can look to the lessons of our past to understand and overcome times of danger, and communal schism. We will dive into transformative moments in Jewish history, with a focus on how the Jewish people encoded our experiences into memory, and the narratives that have allowed us to turn the grave dirt of the past into fertile soil for the future.

Thursday, December 4: The Fall of Jerusalem; Internal politics and what rose from the ashes
Thursday, December 11: The Fall of Beitar; The end of a paradigm
Thursday, December 18: From Shabtai Tzvi to Theodore Herzl; Destiny vs fate vs politics

Lauren Deutsch, Esq. is an attorney, activist, and Torah scholar, living in Rochester, New York with her husband and three children. Lauren worked in migrant women's health services prior to law school, and began her legal career representing survivors of domestic violence at The Legal Aid Society of Rochester in 2010. She has worked in reproductive justice, labor justice, and currently works in disability justice as the Executive Director of Disability Law United, a national legal services organization. Lauren lectures on Jewish topics in family law, biblical literature, and Jewish philosophy, and is currently a scholar at Ohr Torah Stone's International Halakhic Scholars program.