NOTICE: If you are a member of Tzedek and have already set up a ShulCloud account, please log in before registering. Otherwise, please continue to the form below!

Zionism, Judaism and World Well-Being
Unpacking the Writings of a Pre-State Anti-Zionist Rabbi

A 4-Part Course on the Writings of Rabbi Tameres with Rabbi Alissa Wise

Mondays: June 5, 12, 19, 26 at 6:30 CST via Zoom

In each session we will study a section of the text "Zionism, Judaism and World Well-Being" written in 1930 by Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tameres, an anti-zionist rabbi who died before the state of Israel was established. Inspired by the text’s title we will focus on what the text offers us in expanding our understanding of Zionism (session 1), Judaism (session 2), and world well-being (session 3). Session 4 we will integrate our insights.

As part of our study we will draw upon mussar (the Jewish ethics movement), the weekly parsha (torah portion), current events, and whatever else that emerges from the class participants. This class is ideal for those wanting to reach back to our Jewish anti-zionist predecessors and forward to the Jewish life we long for, all while grounded in a commitment to freedom for all people now. 

—

More on Rabbi Tameres: 

Rabbi Tameres was born in Belarus in 1869 and died in Poland in 1931. He was an Orthodox rabbi and served as a delegate to the Fourth World Zionist Congress in 1900, after which he renounced nationalism/Zionism and embraced pacifism as a central Jewish teaching. He referred to himself "Ahad ha-Rabanim ha-margishim"/ "One of the passionately concerned rabbis".

To register for the course, please fill in the following information. The cost for all four sessions is $50 for Tzedek Members and $100 for non-members. If you are a member, be sure to log into your ShulCloud account before filling out the registration form in order to receive the aforementioned discount.

We are also offering a $25 option for folks who would like to purchase recordings of these sessions. Registrants who choose this option will not be admitted to the live sessions, but will receive the recordings and readings for each session after they have occurred.

As with all of our programs, registrants may pay what they are able below or beyond our suggested prices, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.