Kaplan Minyans

Upcoming Kaplan Minyan & Tikkun Olam Shabbat

5785 / 2024-2025 

Kaplan Minyan at Pride Kabbalat Shabbat: Arthur Levine Ferrante
Friday, May 2nd
Dinner at 6:30 - sign up here
Service and talk at 7:30

BK member Arthur Levine Ferrante will speak about Removing Books on “Controversial Topics” from Libraries & What We Can Do

Arthur Levine Ferrante
Founder of Levine Querido in April 2019, after a 23-year tenure as the President and Publisher of Arthur A. Levine Books. He founded Arthur A. Levine Books in 1996, coming over from Knopf Books for Young Readers where he had been Editor in Chief. Arthur was determined to bring a diverse selection of "The Best of the World's Literature for Young People" to American readers. This continues to be the guiding principle at Levine Querido. This mission resulted in the introduction to North American audiences of the work of great writers such as J. K. Rowling, Markus Zusak, Jaclyn Moriarty and so many more wonderful authors. Arthur sees this search for great writers from around the world as a continuum with Levine Querido’s search for diverse, powerful, unique voices and visions from the multitude of cultures closer to home. In addition to overseeing the company, Arthur edits between eight and ten books annually. On a personal note, Arthur is a BK member, has a wonderful husband in Tony Ferrante and an adult child Max.

Past Sessions:

Kaplan Minyan: Dr. Jessica Brater
Associate Professor of Theatre at Montclair State University

Kaplan Minyan: Dr. Sarah Emanuel
The apostle Paul as a Jewish follower of Jesus, and modern Jewish-Christian relations

Tikkun Olam Shabbat: Affordable Housing 
What can we do to keep housing accessible?

Kaplan Minyan with Margaret R. Sáraco and Alex Polner:
Creative Collaboration as a Lifetime Journey

Kaplan Minyan with Dr. Khyati Joshi: 
Racism and Antisemitism in the Context of Christian Privilege in the U.S

Kaplan Minyan with Michael Strassfeld
Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century.

Kaplan Minyan with John Wallach:
Misinformation And Free Speech: A Troublesome Liaison

Joy Levitt:
Toward a more permeable Judaism:  The case for conversion and radical welcome 

Rabbi Dr. David Teutsch:
Reconstructing Judaism and Israel: A Personal Reflection on the Past, Present, and Potential Future

World Jewry Shabbat

Racial Justice Shabbat

Sally Gottesman:
Getting Proximate: Bringing Jewish Leaders to the West Bank and East Jerusalem

Claire Garland:
Indigenous Culture and Land Rights

Michelle Cameron:
The Uneasy Balance - A Fiction Writer's Take on Assimilation vs. Maintaining Jewish Tradition

Jenny Baum:
Just City, Growing up on the Upper West Side when Housing Was a Human Right

Ariel Goldberg:
Just Captions: Ariel Goldberg Shares Research and Writing from book in progress on Trans and Queer Image Cultures

Miriam Herschlag:
A Montclairite in Jerusalem: Fieldnotes from my inspiring, infuriating, flawed, beautiful home.

Siddhu Nadkarni:
Identity: What is your true identity from a Kabbalistic and Vedantic perspective?

Ari Finkelstein:
Separating Christians from Jews in Late Antique Syria: the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the 380s and its Impact on Jews and Judiasm

Roni Yavin:
Did the Baby Cry? Midwifery and Circumcision in the Talmud.