2025-26 Community Education Committee events

CEC events are scheduled on the third Sunday of every month from 1pm-2:30pm year round (with a possible break near the High Holidays depending on when they fall). All events will take place at TBS unless otherwise noted. Look here for upcoming  events which will be posted as they are confirmed.

Upcoming Events

The Enemies Project engages in conversations across avariety of topics, all of which take place between two individuals who have vastly different world views on the topic. A “Peacemaker” facilitates their discussion to help the participants develop a true understanding of the other’s perspective as a way to move towards mutual acceptance. The conversations are recorded on the Enemies Project website, and, in March, the Third Sunday CEC event will be to show the conversation between “Two Jews” (between a Zionist and non-Zionist Jew) with an in-person discussion afterward on how we can apply what we learned from the Enemies Project to helping our TBS community be more trauma-informed when we have difficult conversations between individuals with different world views. This event is not intended for children.

Past Events

Advance Directive workshop, again

(same as last June’s workshop)

The Community Education Committee is hosting Eden Rose Brown (Law Office of Eden Rose Brown) and Rebecca Kueny (Kueny Law LLC) to provide an advance directive clinic where both attorneys will discuss the advance directive and allow time for participants to complete an advance directive at TBS with the ability to ask questions. An advance directive is the form used to appoint a health care representative and provide direction/instruction on how the health care representative should handle medical and treatment decisions if we are unable to make decisions on our own. There are no costs associated with an advance directive.

Jew Oughta Know… Part II

In celebration of Jewish-American Heritage Month all year long…
Did you know some of your FAVORITE pop culture phenomena were created by Jewish-American artists and authors?

Artist and educator, Jessica Rehfield covers surprising Jewish-American contributions to American culture in Part II of this series with a one-hour talk about Jewish-American culture innovators and influences in popular culture. Notable mentions include: Harry Houdini and Emanuel Bronner (Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap); Fran Drescher (The Nanny), LGBTQ+ politician Harvey Milk and activist Brenda Howard (The Mother of Pride); celebrity entertainers Doja Cat, Paula Abdul, and Harrison Ford; Groucho, Harpo and The Marx Bros.; and the story of how seltzer (bubble water) is Jewish, to name a few. Learn about these and other beloved cultural artifacts and celebrate Jewish-American heritage!

Jew Oughta Know…

Did you know some of your FAVORITE pop culture phenomena were created by Jewish-American artists and authors? Artist and educator, Jessica Rehfield covers surprising cultural contributions in a one-hour talk featuring Leonard Nimoy and Spock’s famous Vulcan salute; The Princess Bride (William Goldman); The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle); The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats), The Mandalorian and the bonus history of how a Jewish-American song defeated the Nazis, in Bai Mir Bistu Sheyn. Learn about these and other beloved cultural icons in celebration of Jewish-American Heritage Month.