Previous Presentations
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Winter 2023 Adult Education Series
Maimonides and his Guide
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2022 Adult Education Series
Sing a New Psalm
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Winter 2022 Adult Education Series
From Exile to Enlightenment
Exile to Destruction: 586 BCE - 70 CE
Destruction to Medieval Period: 70 - 630
Islam to Mysticism: 630 - 1500
Chasidism to Haskalah: 1500 – 1800
Temple Emanu-El Fall Adult Education
Eight week series -- November/December 2021
The Parting of the Ways: Judaism and Early Christianity, 2nd - 5th C
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
2021 Spring Sunday Series II
A Jewish Understanding of the Writings of Paul
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
2021 Spring Sunday Series
Tell Me Why-- The History and Evolution of Mitzvote
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
2020 Fall Sunday Series
Tell Me Why-- The History and Evolution of our Life-Cycle Events
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 Sunday 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 Sunday Series
The Rest of the Story: The Spring and Summer Festivals
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2018 Sunday 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 Sunday 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 Sunday 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"
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Spring 2017 Sunday 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
A History of the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians
Grosse Pointe Jewish Council
Fall 2016 Sunday 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 FedEd/JLearn Courses
Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed
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
The Invention of Judaism
Theology, Faith and Prayer
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 Sunday 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