Annual Rabbi Samual Stahl Lectureship

Adult Education

What Do We Do Now? with Dr. Rabbi Rachel Mikva

Thursday, October 23, 7:30 pm

The planet may become uninhabitable. Racism, misogyny, and homophobia are again normalized. Our politics are polarized. Authoritarianism is on the rise. We are suffering a long-COVID pandemic of loneliness. Universities, the incubator of Jewish success in North America, have become fraught. October 7 and its aftermath fractured our alliances, intensified antisemitism, deepened division in our own communities, and thrust our values into mortal combat.    While it may be tempting to turn inward, there is deep wisdom in the tradition that calls us back to the public square—wisdom that embraces uncertainty as opportunity, not merely as risk. How do we respond in this rapidly changing, sometimes hostile, often incomprehensible world?