Upcoming and Recent Programs
- At June 2, 2012
- By Alex Silverstein
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Bread and Torah Weekend, Temple Beth Elohim, Wellesley, MA, May 30-June 1, 2025
Bread and Torah Workshops in England and Germany, March, April, and May 2025 – stay tuned!
Bread and Torah Weekend, Temple Emanu-El, Providence, RI, March 21-23, 2025
Bread and Torah Scribal and Baking Workshops, Skidmore College Hillel, Saratoga Springs, NY, September 8, 2024
Bread and Torah Scribal and Baking Workshops, Cornell University Hillel, Ithaca, NY, September 4-5, 2024
Bread and Torah Workshops, Mahaz Farm Fellowship, Hegyion Orchard, Covesville, VA, August 4-5, 2024
Bread and Torah Shabbaton, Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, Bethlehem, NH, July 19-20, 2024
Scribal Program, Camp Young Judea Sprout Lake, Verbank, NY, June 10-11, 2024
Pre-Shavuot Bread and Torah Weekend, Temple Emek Shalom, Ashland, OR, June 7-9, 2024
Parchment Making Intensive, L’Shem Kedushat: Demystifying Jewish Sacred Arts Retreat, Deerfield, MA, May 16-19, 2024
Torah Panel Sewing Session, “Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Women Clergy in the Capital District,” Temple Israel, Albany, NY, March 31, 2024.
Bread and Torah Multi-Generational Shabbaton, Temple Emanu-El, Waterford, CT, March 8-10, 2024
Two Evenings With A Soferet, Congregation Agudath Achim, Schenectady, NY, March 7 and 21, 2024
Inscribing the Sacred: Creating Torah and Art, Jacob Perlow Scholar-In-Residence, Skidmore College, February 26-March 1, 2024
Beauty and the Yeast: Babka and Beyond, Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OR, January 10, 2024
Bread and Torah Program, Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane, WA, November 18-19, 2023
Scribal Torah Panel Proofreading Program, Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OR, November 5, 2023
Scribal Parchment Making Program, Temple Beth Israel Religious School, Eugene, OR, April 30, 2023
Challah pop-up bakery, Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OR, April 7 and May 12, 2023
Bread and Torah program, Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock, NY, March 12, 2023
Bread and Torah youth programs, Eshkol Regional Council, Israel, February 27 and 28, 2023
Dorson Shabbaton Scholars-in-Residence, Kol Ami, Tucson, AZ, February 10-12, 2023
Tu B’Shevat “Seven Species” Challah Workshop, Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OR, February 3, 2023
Scholars-in-Residence, Congregation Beth Israel, Charlottesville, VA, January 13-15, 2023
Scholars-in-Residence, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE), Charleston, SC, January 6-8, 2023
2012-2022
Bread and Torah – Parchment Making and Bagel Baking Workshops, Skidmore College Hillel, September 11, 2022
Susan Ellis Waskow (ז”ל) Memorial Day of Communal Learning, Congregation Kehilat Shalom, Belle Mead, NJ, May 14-15, 2022
Bread and Torah Havdalah Program, Congregation Ohav Shalom, Albany, NY, January 25, 2020
Orliss Scholars-in-Residence, Congregation Beth Israel, Carmel, CA, January 10-12, 2020
Sherman Visiting Scholars, Visiting Rabbis, Temple Israel, Cape Town Progressive Jewish Congregation, South Africa, November 14-December 3, 2019
Bread and Torah workshops, Hazon Food Conference, Isabella Freedman Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT, August 14-15, 2019
“Scholars Near the Beach,” Bread and Torah Weekend, Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island, NJ, July 12-14, 2019
Bread and Torah Program, Temple B’nai Israel, Willimantic, CT, March 23-24, 2019
Bread and Torah Weekend, Main Line Reform Temple, Wynnewood, PA, Jan 25-29, 2019
Bread and Torah Shabbaton, Congregation B’nai Israel, Northampton, MA, December 14-15, 2018
Teva Educators and Adamah Fellows Training, Isabella Friedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT November 11, 2018
Alexander Schindler Scholars-in-Residence, Temple Israel, Westport, CT, October 26-28, 2018
Rabbis Linda and Jonathan teaching at the Maine Conference for Jewish Life, Waterville, ME, June 8-10, 2018
Bread and Torah Weekend, Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, OR, April 20-22, 2018
Bread and Torah Workshop, Beth El Synagogue, St. Louis Park, MN, March 8-11, 2018
Bread and Torah weekend, Comunidad Hebrea En San Miguel de Allende, San Miguel de Allende, México
Aaron Altschul Scholar in Residence Weekend, Temple Micah, Washington DC, Jan 19-21, 2018
Teva Educators and Adamah Fellows Training, Isabella Friedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT November 5, 2017
Bread and Torah Shabbaton, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME & Beth Israel Congregation, Bath, ME, October 20-21, 2017
Hiddur Mitzvah, Camp Seneca Lake, Penn Yan, NY, July 9-10, 2017
Bread and Torah Shabbaton, Jewish Community of Amherst, Amherst, MA, March 17-19, 2017
Visiting Rabbis, New Zealand Bead and Torah Tour, Hokianga, Wellington, Auckland, Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand, February 8-26, 2017
Bread and Torah, Temple Sholom, New Milford, CT, January 8, 2017
Bread and Torah, Congregation Beth Israel, Worcester, MA, December 9-11, 2016
Bread and Torah, Congregation Beth El, Bennington, VT, November 12-13, 2016
Teva and Adamah, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT November 6, 2016
Writing the Sacred: Scribes in Christianity and Judaism, Hayyim and Esther Kieval Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies, Siena College, October 30-31, 2016
Half-Torah, A Celebration of Reaching the Half-way Mark in the Community Torah Project, Temple Sinai, July 24, 2016
Visiting Rabbis, Bread and Torah, Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, Bethlehem, NH, July 14-17, 2016
Rabbi Linda Motzkin, Women and the Making of Torah: A Soferet’s Story, Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, April 13, 2016
Bread and Torah, Haverford College Jewish Student Union, Haverford, PA, March 29, 2016
Bread and Torah, Congregation Beth Israel, Charlottesville, VA, March 25-27, 2016
Bread and Torah, Temple Beth Avodah, Newton, MA, March 13-14, 2016
Bread and Torah, Congregation Eitz Chayim, Cambridge, MA, March 11-12, 2016
Bread and Torah, Skidmore College Hillel, Saratoga Springs, March 1, 2016
Hazon Food Conference, Isabella Freedman Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT, December 29, 2015 -January 1, 2016
Schenectady JCC Gallery Scribal Arts Program, November 17, 2015
Teva and Adamah, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT November 15, 2015
Festival of Jewish Scribal Arts, Lev Shalem Institute, Woodstock, New York, Oct 2015 (see Tablet article on the Third International Gathering of Sofrot as part of this Lev Shalem festival)
Pre-Rosh Hashanah Challah Workshop, Schenectady JCC, September 2015
Torah repair in San Miguel de Allende, México, April 2015
Jewish Community and Cultural Center (JC3), San Miguel de Allende, México, March, 2015
Challah workshops in Valparaíso, Chile, Jan 2015
Congregation Beth Ahavah, Northampton, MA, Nov 2014
Skidmore College Hillel, Saratoga Springs, NY Nov 2014
Teva and Adamah, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Falls Village, CT Nov 2014
Jewish Community Center, Utica, NY, October 2014
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, Bethlehem, NH, July 2014
Parchment workshop, Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY June, 2014
Conference of sofrot, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 2014
Annual Interfaith Program, United Methodist Church, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 2014
Congregation Beit Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland, March 2014
Torah writing workshop, Congregation Beit Kraków, Krakow, Poland, March 2014
Congregation Beth Orim, Budapest, Hungary, March 2014
Schenectady Unitarian-Universalist Society Youth Group (at Temple Sinai) March 2014
Smith College Hillel, Northampton, MA Feb 2014
Temple Solel, Phoenix, AZ, January 2014
Temple Sinai, Pittsburgh, PA, Dec 2013
SyraJews, Syracuse, NY, November 2013
Temple Israel, Duluth, MN, June 2013
Capital District Board of Rabbis, Albany, NY, June 2013
Teva Seminar, Falls Village, CT, June 2013
Congregation Shir Ami, Newtown, PA, April 2013
Temple B’rith Kodesh, Rochester, NY, March 2013
Baking Workshop, Temple Beth Emeth, Albany, NY, March 2013
Smith College Hillel, Northampton, MA, March 2013
Congregation Agudat Achim Rosh Hodesh group, Schenectady, NY Dec 2012
Germantown Jewish Center, Philadelphia, PA, October 2012
Bread Workshop at Havurah Institute, Rindge, NH August 2012
Hevreh of Southern Berkshire, Great Barrington, MA, June 2012
Bread Making Class, Temple Sinai, Saratoga Springs, NY June 2012
Alex
The breadmaking class was awesome! I feel like I went from novice to OK breadmaker in one session. Thanks Rabbi Jonathan!nn1nn1nn1nn1nn1nn1nn1nn1nn1
Ellen and Robert Steinberger
Oh, the joys of a freshly made babka! Thank you, Rabbi Jonathan for teaching us the secret to making this scrumptious pastry.nn1
lisa caplan
Hi! We’d like to attend your Phoenix Bread and Torah program. We’ve heard GREAT things about it. Can you provide details please? Thanks.nn1
Paula Fingeret Rulin
Just wanted to say thank you for the most informative and enjoyable Bread and Torah session. I really had a great time and will look forward to baking in my own kitchen!!nn1