Introducing Our New Annual Membership!
Unlock exclusive access to free and discounted registration for many of our programs.
Programs with this icon are part of a series (and the tuition is for the full series). Please register for the program even if you aren’t able to make it to all sessions in the series. Most of our programs are recorded and can be viewed within two days following the program/session by clicking “Video Library” (under "Learn with Us" in the main menu).
Please note: When you register for a program you are automatically added to our subscribers’ email list and will receive several emails monthly about upcoming programs. Each email will include the option to unsubscribe.
Also, within minutes of submitting a program registration, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link (for virtual programs). If you don’t see it in your Inbox or spam folders, email us immediately: programs@newlehrhaus.org
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Join Professor Andrew Porwancher as he uncovers the close-knit and often surprising relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the Jewish community. This lecture traces Roosevelt’s deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led. Drawing on fresh research from his newest book,
American Maccabee, Porwancher explores the compl...
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Director Mark Streshinsky and renowned biblical scholar Ron Hendel explore Charpentier's David & Jonathan. From the power of Baroque opera to the theological dimensions of the biblical text, this event brings two perspectives of this relationship into dialog.
Please arrive at Clio's Books by 6:30pm. (Doors open at 6 pm.) Register below.
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And Now Can Love Begin is an imagined memoir, ventriloquizing the author's parents, based on 100 love letters exchanged in Palestine from 1945-46. Join us as Rachel Biale describes a fascinating glimpse into an epistolary romance set just after WWII in Palestine by two Jewish refugees from Europe.
Tuition: Free (standing room), $7.18 (seat), $17.85 (seat and a drink). Register at the link below.
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Join the Friday Morning Torah Study Group which has been meeting for 50+ years! Every week features a different teacher from among rabbis, scholars, Jewish educators, artists, and the lay leaders with which our community is blessed. Each session begins with the week's parasha (Torah portion) and emphasizes deep conversation and multi-faceted perspectives.
We offer this program tuition-free, but ask that you please consider a donation to New Le... Read more
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Limited tickets available!
Enjoy West Edge Opera's production before it opens! To prepare, watch sessions 1 and 2 of our winter program, "From the Page to the Stage: The Bible in Text and Opera". (Search for "stage" in our
video library to call up the videos). Here's
West Edge Opera's Trailer.
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These preparatory lectures for a New Lehrhaus/Tiyul Jewish Journeys September trip are open to anyone interested in the history of the region, not just trip participants.
Fred Rosenbaum will describe the millennia-long importance of the Rhine River to the economy, culture, and geopolitics of Western Europe with a focus on Frankfurt and the fraught Jewish experience in the region. The lecture will encompass medieval persecution and ghettoization, the ast...
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Programs with this icon are part of a series (and the tuition is for the full series). Please register for the program even if you aren’t able to make it to all sessions in the series. Most of our programs are recorded and can be viewed within two days following the program/session by clicking “Video Library” (under "Learn with Us" in the main menu).
