Reform Responsa with Rabbi Sandra Cohen

Upcoming Sessions

1. Thursday, August 14, 2025 • 20 Av 5785

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

2. Thursday, August 21, 2025 • 27 Av 5785

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

3. Thursday, August 28, 2025 • 4 Elul 5785

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

4. Thursday, September 4, 2025 • 11 Elul 5785

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

5. Thursday, September 11, 2025 • 18 Elul 5785

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

6. Thursday, September 18, 2025 • 25 Elul 5785

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

7. Thursday, September 25, 2025 • 3 Tishrei 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

8. Thursday, October 2, 2025 • 10 Tishrei 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

9. Thursday, October 9, 2025 • 17 Tishrei 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

10. Thursday, October 16, 2025 • 24 Tishrei 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

11. Thursday, October 23, 2025 • 1 Cheshvan 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

12. Thursday, October 30, 2025 • 8 Cheshvan 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

13. Thursday, November 6, 2025 • 15 Cheshvan 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

14. Thursday, November 13, 2025 • 22 Cheshvan 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

15. Thursday, November 20, 2025 • 29 Cheshvan 5786

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Ever wonder how to make a good decision: a moral one, a Jewish one? In this open-ended class on Reform responsa literature, we will discuss Jewish questions and the answers, informed by millennia of Jewish sources: Tanach, Talmud, commentaries,law codes. Often, those answers -- responsum -- will we be unclear, but the study we do around tough issues may help us each come to our own sense of the right thing to do.

This class meets Thursdays, 12-1, starting Thursday, August 14. Rabbi Cohen will select the first responsum for the class, and then we will decide where to go next.