Upcoming Events
14
March
Rabbi Josh Warshawsky Artist in Residence Weekend
15
March
CLC: Speaker Deena Margolies, Brandeis Center
Please join the Culture & Learning Center for a Lecture by the Brandeis Law Center
09
April
My Son the Barber-Surgeon: Jews and Medicine from Moses and Aaron
24
April
Israel Dinner 2026
Join your B'nai Shalom friends and family for a special Israel themed Shabbat dinner and Yom Haatzmaut celebration!
07
March
Study of Sefer Ha Chinuch
Join us for weekly learning every Shabbat Between Mincha and Maariv
11
April
Tefillah Tot Shabbat at B'nai Shalom
Join Rabbi Tobin & Morah Amy for Tefillah Tot Shabbat! We will play, single and celebrate Shabbat together!
02
March
Talmud Class with Rabbi Tobin
Join Rabbi Tobin and a special group of friends at B’nai Shalom for our weekly Talmud Mondays class. This year’s class will begin on Monday, October 20th.
My Son the Barber-Surgeon: Jews and Medicine from Moses and Aaron
Among the topics covered in this informal lecture:
- Medicine in the Torah and the Talmud
- Moses Maimonides and holistic health
- Demonology and the etiology of disease: The pseudo-science of the Jews of early Ashkenaz
- Sephardic converso physicians and their contributions to medicine
- Torah v’Madda (Bible and Science): Padua, Italy and the formation of a Jewish medical brotherhood, Renaissance period
- The role of the hakim (Jewish shaman) in Persian society
- Cholera wedding: A unique communal ritual of defense and protection of the Eastern European Jews in modern times
- The Ellis Island Jewish immigrant as carrier of disease
- The Chassidic tsaddik as folk healer: From the Ba’al Shem Tov to the Bostoner Rebbe
- Jewish anti-vaxxers in the age of the Coronavirus
- Some Jewish luminaries in modern medical history