UNYESHIVA CLASSES

with Becca Leviss
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When
Starts November 9th
Mondays, 3:00-4:30 pm ET · 12:00-1:30 pm PT
6-week course
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From October 27 through November 8, 2026, 11 Jewish artists from across the United States come together across geography, generation, medium, and identity, to imagine and wrestle with future visions of American Jewish life in 2070––two thousand years after the fall of the Second Temple. Drawing their own questions and hopes of Jewish futures alongside speculative art, strategic foresight frameworks, and Jewish rituals and texts, the artists work in soft, gathered, and digitized materials to imagine textures of Jewish community, ritual, identity, diaspora, and belonging nearly 50 years from now.

In this class, we will dive into the 70 Seeds Digital Exhibition––using the questions posed and ideas embedded in these artistic works as starting points for our own questions and ideas of futures of American Jewish life. We will draw from Jewish (and “jewish”) texts and rituals, other futurist traditions, as well as signals of change and emergence in the world around us. At a moment when much of the public conversation around Jewish futures is fear or survival-oriented, we hope this class––and the exhibition itself––will create a space to imagine Jewish and collective thriving through art and storytelling.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

This class is not eligible for rabbinical school credit.

Cost

This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $269 (the true cost), $225 or $179.

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.

Click here to donate to JUs financial aid fund to support financial equity and access to education for all students.

If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this form, and we will get right back to you.

with Silas Kotnour and Noa Baron
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When
Starts October 22nd
Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 pm ET · 3:00-4:30 pm PT
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Noa is a rabbinical student. Silas is an Episcopal priest. They are engaged to one another and live together. Can Noa sell their chametz to Silas for Passover?
In this class, we seek to look at specific case studies related to Jewish life that might arise for interfaith families - which we believe are awesome, by the way. We seek to mimic the generative creativity of the Talmud as we explore questions, ideas, and tensions that come with interfaith life.

Much of the Jewish world is still asking “are Jewish-interfaith households allowed,” but we want to ask new and different questions that speak to the actual lived experience of interfaith households. Together, we’ll see what new possibilities can emerge when we approach Jewish tradition with curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to wrestle with complexity.

No Hebrew is required; participants of all backgrounds are welcome.

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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.

This class is not eligible for rabbinical school credit.

Cost

This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239.

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.

Click here to donate to JUs financial aid fund to support financial equity and access to education for all students.

If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this form, and we will get right back to you.