Services & Learning:
We’re thrilled to welcome Professor Mara Benjamin to Congregation Beth Shalom for Shavuot! Professor Benjamin will be joining us throughout the holiday, teaching two sessions at our Leil Tikkun Shavuot celebration on Sunday, June 1 and delivering the D’var Torah on Monday, June 2, as well as leading us in song and reflection following kiddush lunch.
If you are a non-member interested in joining us for Shavuot, please register here.
If you are a member and would like to view our Shavuot service and learning schedule—including programming for young families—please log in to your Shulcloud account.
Edwin and Marilyn Bierman Scholar in Residence
About Our Scholar: Mara H. Benjamin, a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, is Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a scholar of modern Jewish religious thought and a constructive Jewish theologian. Benjamin’s 2018 book, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought, received the 2019 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective category. She is also the author of Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity(2009). Her current project, Earthbound: Jewish Thought and a World Disrupted, analyzes the profound challenges ecological crisis poses to Jewish theology.