Valley Beit Midrash

A hybrid event presentation (in-person & virtual) by Rabbi Ed Feinstein

EVENT CO-SPONSORED BY: Congregation Ner Tamid

Please note event times are listed in the local time zone (PST).

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Before it was a country, Israel was a dream, an idea, an aspiration. That idea fired the imagination of Jews the world over to wonder, who might we become? Then all those dreams came together to produce the wonder, the anguish, the energy that is today’s Israel. Let’s go back and gather those dreams and see just how this miracle came to be.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Rabbi Feinstein serves  the Valley Beth Shalom community as a teacher, pastor and visionary leader. He also serves on the faculty of the Ziegler Rabbinical School of the American Jewish University, the Wexner Heritage Program, the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and lectures widely across the United States. He is the author of several books, including: Tough Questions Jews Ask – A Young Adult’s Guide to Building a Jewish Life, (Jewish Lights, 2003), Jews and Judaism in the Twenty-First Century: Human Responsibility, the Presence of God and the Future of the Covenant (Jewish Lights, 2007), Capturing the Moon (Behrman House, 2008) and most recently, Chutzpah Imperative! - Empowering Today's Jews for a Life that Matters (Jewish Lights, 2014).

Rabbi Feinstein was raised in the back of his parents’ bakery on the frontiers of the West San Fernando Valley. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Judaism, Columbia University Teachers College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained a rabbi in 1981. Most recently, he received his Doctorate in Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York for his dissertation: Rabbi Harold Schulweis and the Reinvention of the American Rabbinate.

An engaging lecturer and storyteller, Rabbi Feinstein unites the ancient Jewish love of ideas with the warmth of Jewish humor.