Fall Semester is online. Spring Semester TBD

Fall Semester is online. Spring Semester TBD

Bob Dylan revolutionized popular music by bringing the great questions that have driven religious and spiritual quests for millennia to the radio. The riddle at the heart of his 1965 song Like a Rolling Stone—“How does it feel / to be on your own / no direction home?”—affirmed the search for spiritual meaning that defined rock and roll for all who followed him. While Dylan’s challenge to a generation of seekers is universal, it also resonates strongly with the continuing Jewish journey between home and exile in America. Dylan’s restlessness models how, even as Jews have felt more at home in America than perhaps any other country or kingdom in the past two thousand years outside of the Land of Israel, they have also wrestled with their individual and collective Jewish purpose in ways that intertwine with and influence not just rock and roll, but the American spirit as a whole. Dylan’s career-long search for a “direction home” is one of the essential creative journeys of his era. It is deeply Jewish, deeply American, and still deeply unresolved.

Fall Semester is online. Spring Semester TBD

A Chanukah Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Alan Freedman

The Board of Directors invites comments from congregants at all board meetings. A congregant may share their comment for up to three minutes at the beginning of the meeting. Please indicate the subject of your comment when you submit the RSVP form (https://www.bethshalomaustin.org/form/board-meeting-rsvp), by 4:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting. See meeting agendas on our governance webpage.

In this course, we explore the philosophical underpinnings of Shabbat, the various themes and messages that make it so meaningful, and its place in the modern world using ancient sources against 19th and 20th century thinkers, extending their frameworks into the 21st century. REGISTRATION REQUIRED below. If you do not see a registration below, the class is closed.

Join us for Chanukah Pub Trivia! You get to play pub trivia from the comfort of your couch with virtual trivia. Through Zoom, we'll bring the host (Sporcle Live's Trivia Master and OUR 7th grade teacher, Brian Dorfman) and the questions, you bring your A-game and your dream team -- whether that's friends, family, coworkers, or all of the above. Prizes will be awarded to the 1st and 2nd Place Teams. Please register your team HERE.

Led by Cantor Abby Gostein and Rabbi Ellie Steinman A special group for Temple Beth Shalom members to connect. New to the group? Contact our office.

Join us online at https://www.bethshalomaustin.org/livestream