Menu for your mind
The Sarah Peltzman Educational Series consists of three educational units from 10 to 11 a.m. beginning Thursday, Oct. 15, sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood through Zoom. The cost is $15 per unit or $36 for all three and is open to the entire Jewish community of Greater Kansas City. The fee for couples is $40 and includes all three units. Each unit (lasting four class sessions) will be followed by a fifth session with a “guest speaker.”
Unit One — Instructor will be Alan Edelman
Topic: “Am I My Brother’s Keeper? A Jewish Social Justice Response to Black Lives Matter.”
Dates: Oct. 15, 22, 29 and Nov. 5
Nov. 12: Guest speaker Dan Margolies
Unit Two — Instructor will be Hazzan Tahl Ben-Yehuda
Topic: “Difficult Texts in the Tanakh; How We Face and Frame the Texts that Make Us Squirm.”
Dates: Jan. 7, 14, 21, and 28
Feb. 4: Guest speaker to be announced
Unit Three — Instructor will be Rabbi David Glickman
Topic: “Great Arguments: How the Jewish Methods of Disagreement are What the World Needs Now.”
Dates: April 8, 15, 22, and 29
May 6: Guest speaker Pete Cabell
For more information, contact Amy Schultz at or 913-681-5752.
