Whenever, however you prefer to learn, the Foundation offers a range of options – lunchtime learning, evening lectures, classroom courses, weekend retreats, travel/study tours. Our instructors are highly qualified rabbis, professors, and Judaic scholars. All you need to bring: an open mind and your eagerness to learn! No prior background in Hebrew or Judaics is required.

 

Best wishes from the Foundation for Jewish Studies for a New Year of fulfillment and peace in 5769

Join us for our stimulating lineup of Fall Scholars
in the Distinguished Scholar Series

 November 6, 2008 
Prof. Robert Eisen, Director of Judaic Studies, George Washington University
Violence, Peace and the Ethics of Judaism: Ancient Texts and Modern Dilemmas
Held at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
600 I Street, NW
Distinguished Scholar Series. No Fee.
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November 13, 2008 
Rabbi William Cutter, Director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism And Health, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles
Yehudah Amichai: Love’s Melancholy and the Poetry of History
Held at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
600 I Street, NW
Distinguished Scholar Series. No Fee.
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November 20, 2008 
Prof. Michael Walzer, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
War and the Jewish Tradition
Held at Ohr Kodesh Congregation
8300 Meadowbrook Lane
Chevy Chase, MD
Distinguished Scholar Series. No Fee.
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And, a Community Lecture

December 16, 2008
Douglas Johnston, International Center for Religion and Diplomacy
Can Diplomacy Deal with Religious Fanatics?
The Imprint of Jewish Law on American and other Legal Systems

Community Lecture to be held at
The Washington DC JCC
1529 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Community Lecture. No Fee.
For further information click here.