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Previous Presentations

Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
   2020 Spring Sunday Series 
19th C Zionism: Philosophers and Politicians (1881 - 1914)
Feet on the Ground: Pioneers of the First and Second Aliya (1881 – 1914)
 Two World Wars, the UN and the Declaration of Independence (1914 – 1947)



Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
         2019 Fall Adult Education Series 

From Exile to the Enlightenment
Sephardic Success in the Muslim World
Our Unique American Judaism




Congregation Shaarey Zedek  -- Berman Night of Learning
 August 8, 2019
Thank God We Got Out of the Garden


Limmud Michigan
March 31, 2019, Jewish Community Center
Making Sense of the Ineffable Name



Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2019 Adult Education Series

The Rest of the Story: The Spring and Summer Festivals


Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2018 Adult Education Series

The Rest of the Story: The Fall Festivals


Scholar's Colloquy at Marygrove College
October 9, 2018
What Can We Learn From Nachman: Religion and Social Movements



Limmud Michigan
March 11, 2018, Wayne State University
A Rabbi Reads the Apostle Paul



Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2018 Adult Education Series -- from the Book of Exodus

What did the people really hear at Sinai? 
Boiling a kid? – Really?!
Golden Calf as Polemical Allegory
Another 10 Commandments?!
 Did the Exodus from Egypt Really Happen?



FedEd @ Congregation Shir Tikveh
March and October 2018

Our Spring Festivals --- The Rest of the Story
​Our Fall and Winter Festivals -- The Rest of the Story


Greenfield Presbyterian Church  (Berkley MI), March 13,  2018
Jesus' Jerusalem-- A Guided Tour 



Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2017 Adult Education Series -- from the Book of Exodus

A Radical Re-Reading of Exodus Chapter 1
Reviewing the Documentary Hypothesis

"Bridegroom of Blood" & What About God's Name?
Re-Imagining the 10 Plagues
Pharaoh's "Heavy Heart"

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Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2017 Adult Education Series -- from the Book of Genesis

 Abraham, Rebecca and Jacob
Jacob into Israel: What Goes Around, Comes Around
Judah v. Reuven! And the winner is…


Limmud Michigan
March 19, 2017, Wayne State University
Who Was Jesus? And how did he become the Jewish Messiah of the Church?



Sholem Aleichem Institute
January 29, 2017, JCC

Brundage, Jews and the Nazi Olympics


Grosse Pointe Congregational Church
November 3, 2016

The History of the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians


Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2016 Adult Education Series -- from the Book of Genesis

Genesis 1 & 2-- Which Creation Story is Correct?
Genesis 3 -- Thank God We Got Out of the Garden!
Genesis 4 -- Cain as Tragic Hero



Previous Federation Courses 
Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed
Exploring the Psalms
A Jewish Understanding of the Synoptic Gospels
A Jewish Understanding of Paul ‘s Epistles
A Jewish Understanding of “The Parting of the Ways”
Jewish Messianism
The History, Development and Challenge of Reform Judaism

Observance: Festivals, Life-Cycle, Rites, Rituals and Daily Life
Worship and Belief
A Brief History of Judaism: Abraham to America

Genesis & Exodus: Reading Them Again For The First  Time
The Five M'gillot
The Star and the Crescent: A History of Jewish/Muslim Relations



Rochester College
Class Presentations, Winter Semester 2015 

The Two Creation Stories
Cain: Tragic Hero
The Jacob Cycle



Scholars' Colloquy at Marygrove College
October 2014

Searching for Spirituality? What's Wrong with Madonna's Kabbalah.



Paper presented to the Midwest Jewish Studies Association
September 2014, Kent State University

Making Jewish Sense of Paul's Theology



Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
August/September 2014 Adult Education Series

Understanding Early Christianity



Congregation Shaarey Zedek (E. Lansing MI)
February 2014 “Scholar Weekend”




Greenfield Presbyterian Church  (Berkley MI), January 2014,  Series of Four Presentations

The Book of Exodus: Text & Texture 


Temple Emanu-El (Oak Park MI), January 2014 Book Review

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth





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