Moses, Tzipporah, and Us: Powerful Interfaith Families Past and Present
with Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery
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When
Thursdays - 3 Weeks
8:00 - 9:30 pm ET/5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PT
April 24 · May 1 · May 8
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Interfaith families are really, really fantastic! We (the co-teachers of this course) couldn't feel happier that we, ourselves, are part of interfaith families in our own lives!
Sentences like the above -- which we mean with all our heart, soul, and might -- haven't been uttered very much over the course of Jewish history. Their opposites (that interfaith families are terrible for the Jewish present and future) have unfortunately been central to our communal discourse. Jews in interfaith relationships have been decried as "finishing Hitler's work." We've been banned as "poor role models" (to this day) from many communal leadership roles. We've even, in one wild historical moment, been protested off of CBS's primetime lineup. But interfaith families have been playing a positive role in Jewish life since Moses and Tzipporah in the book of Exodus, and we are here to stay. It’s past time to celebrate the power and joy of that truth!
If your family of origin is an interfaith family, this is a class for you. If you are yourself in an interfaith relationship (as a Jew, as not-Jewish, or as somewhere-in-between), this is for you, too! If you're not in an interfaith relationship, but you are energized by spending time in a space that celebrates interfaith families, and asks how to best empower them (us) in Jewish communal life, this course is absolutely for you as well.
Over our three weeks together, Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery will guide interactive conversations that acknowledge and processes past harms done by religious institutions toward interfaith partnerships and families. From there, the class will share our visions for a better future. And every step of the way, we will explore the roles that each one of us can play in crafting that future, together.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery
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When
Thursdays - 3 Weeks
8:00 - 9:30 pm ET/5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PT
April 24 · May 1 · May 8
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Interfaith families are really, really fantastic! We (the co-teachers of this course) couldn't feel happier that we, ourselves, are part of interfaith families in our own lives!
Sentences like the above -- which we mean with all our heart, soul, and might -- haven't been uttered very much over the course of Jewish history. Their opposites (that interfaith families are terrible for the Jewish present and future) have unfortunately been central to our communal discourse. Jews in interfaith relationships have been decried as "finishing Hitler's work." We've been banned as "poor role models" (to this day) from many communal leadership roles. We've even, in one wild historical moment, been protested off of CBS's primetime lineup. But interfaith families have been playing a positive role in Jewish life since Moses and Tzipporah in the book of Exodus, and we are here to stay. It’s past time to celebrate the power and joy of that truth!
If your family of origin is an interfaith family, this is a class for you. If you are yourself in an interfaith relationship (as a Jew, as not-Jewish, or as somewhere-in-between), this is for you, too! If you're not in an interfaith relationship, but you are energized by spending time in a space that celebrates interfaith families, and asks how to best empower them (us) in Jewish communal life, this course is absolutely for you as well.
Over our three weeks together, Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery will guide interactive conversations that acknowledge and processes past harms done by religious institutions toward interfaith partnerships and families. From there, the class will share our visions for a better future. And every step of the way, we will explore the roles that each one of us can play in crafting that future, together.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery
—
When
Thursdays - 3 Weeks
8:00 - 9:30 pm ET/5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PT
April 24 · May 1 · May 8
—
Interfaith families are really, really fantastic! We (the co-teachers of this course) couldn't feel happier that we, ourselves, are part of interfaith families in our own lives!
Sentences like the above -- which we mean with all our heart, soul, and might -- haven't been uttered very much over the course of Jewish history. Their opposites (that interfaith families are terrible for the Jewish present and future) have unfortunately been central to our communal discourse. Jews in interfaith relationships have been decried as "finishing Hitler's work." We've been banned as "poor role models" (to this day) from many communal leadership roles. We've even, in one wild historical moment, been protested off of CBS's primetime lineup. But interfaith families have been playing a positive role in Jewish life since Moses and Tzipporah in the book of Exodus, and we are here to stay. It’s past time to celebrate the power and joy of that truth!
If your family of origin is an interfaith family, this is a class for you. If you are yourself in an interfaith relationship (as a Jew, as not-Jewish, or as somewhere-in-between), this is for you, too! If you're not in an interfaith relationship, but you are energized by spending time in a space that celebrates interfaith families, and asks how to best empower them (us) in Jewish communal life, this course is absolutely for you as well.
Over our three weeks together, Lex Rofeberg and Emma Newbery will guide interactive conversations that acknowledge and processes past harms done by religious institutions toward interfaith partnerships and families. From there, the class will share our visions for a better future. And every step of the way, we will explore the roles that each one of us can play in crafting that future, together.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
Meet Lex
Lex (he/him), in his role as Senior Jewish Educator of Judaism Unbound, co-hosts and produces its weekly podcast, facilitates many of its live digital events, and oversees the UnYeshiva: a digital center for Jewish learning and unlearning. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Judaic Studies, and was ordained as a rabbi in 2021 by ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. You didn’t ask, but he would like you to know that his rabbinic ordination speech looked at OutKast’s song “Hey Ya” through the lens of Jewish numerology. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lex lived for two years in Jackson, Mississippi — working for the Institute of Southern Jewish Life — and he currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Valerie. He serves on advisory boards, or boards of directors for The Shalom Center, Tikkun Olam Productions, Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations, and Mitzvah Matzos.
