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Find the best education events and make the most of your time next 30-days in Somerville. From music to trivia and more, we have the biggest event range and best discovery experience, there's something for everyone.
An Evening with Alex Elle: The Company We Keep is a highly anticipated event featuring renowned author Alex Elle discussing her latest work. This event promises an engaging evening of storytelling, insights, and interaction with the audience. Attendees can expect a unique experience filled with literary discussions and personal anecdotes from the author.
In this three-part series, we will consider the ways the American Jewish community has shaped, and been shaped by, American law and legal culture. A better understanding of these stories will help situate the Jewish community's role in America, and will broaden perspectives on this history more generally.
In this class, we will delve into the themes of wandering and the American dream as embodied in contemporary Israeli literature, focusing on two novels: “Hunting in America” by Tehila Hakimi, and “Relocation” by Ayelet Gondar Goshen. The class will be taught in Hebrew and is open to all, regardless of prior knowledge or experience.
What happens when we read the Talmud with an assumption of women's presence rather than their absence? Based on Kanarek's new book Beyond Brutality: Reclaiming Female Presence in Bavli Sotah, this class will look at sections from tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud. Together, we will explore the ways in which this tractate responds to the brutality of the sotah ritual, making females visible and opening a pathway forward for care.
This class celebrates the launch of Professor Jordan Katz's new book, Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe (Stanford, 2026). Through the lens of midwives, this book explores Jewish communal history, the history of women's healing practices, Jewish-Christian relations, and cultures of record in the early modern period. Professor Katz will be in conversation with student nurse midwife Orli Stitcher to discuss the continuities and new developments in caring for Jewish women during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond.
Although traditionally, through the centuries, Jewish prayer books were written, gathered, and redacted by men, for men to use in communal prayer, women have participated in the making of specific religious books in several ways starting probably in the sixteenth century and continuing into the present moment. Our class will look at key instances of such participation of women in the making of Jewish prayer books. These key examples share, besides the unexpected breaching of gender boundaries within the tradition, an impulse to express worship through identity in the form of translation, adaptation, and composition in the vernacular (Yiddish or English), rather than, or in conjunction with Hebrew/ Aramaic, the sacred language of Jewish prayer.
In this generative poetry class, we’ll chart ways to use your family or community’s sayings in poems that explore how the past informs the present. Come prepared to have fun, while trying your hand at techniques for folding folklore and imagery into poetry that’s at once individual and universal. Together, we’ll share anecdotes and play with writing exercises. By the end of class, you’ll have a draft of a poem that you can shape for further development. (If you don't have a family expression: don't worry! I'll bring a list of phrases for sampling.) No previous poetry experience is required. This event is inclusive of everyone’s background and lived experiences.
What is the irreducible essence of Judaism, and how can a tradition so rich in disagreement still cohere as one? In this session, we explore how the Talmudic rabbis grappled with the tension between unity and multiplicity, seeking “on one foot” the unifying principles that underlie the diversity of Torah, law, and communal life. Through interactive study of Talmudic and Midrashic sources, we will see how Judaism affirms both the infinite value of the individual and the generative power of difference within a shared covenant. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, these models offer a vision of principled diversity that sustains rather than fragments.
Get ready to stretch your legs and explore with us this season, exploring, celebrating, and enjoying nature in Somerville! Join us for an explorative and gentle Spring Nature Walk at the Somerville Community Growing Center! This walk series will be led by environmental educator Phoebe Grupper and is perfect for all ages and experience levels. Whether you're a couch potato or a seasoned naturalist, this walk is for you!
Looming grandly in the spirit of the Yiddish world is the larger-than-life medium of Yiddish theatre. Its stories, actors, music, and joie de vivre have inspired the lives of Jews and non-Jews alike (even the historic Russian actor Stanislavsky was mesmerized by the medium without ever speaking a word of Yiddish!). From the Vilna Ghetto to the Bowery, Yiddish theatre has left an indelible mark on the lives of all who have witnessed it. Join us for a class where we’ll discover the origins of Yiddish theatre, from its roots in the badkhones and the Purim shpil to contemporary works by living authors and composers working in the medium today. From grand opera to low-brow vaudeville, from dybbuks to matinée idols, come explore the sights and sounds of Yiddish theatre!
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Celebrate Mother's Day by soaking up poetic renderings of our Biblical foremothers! Join us to explore, discuss, and reflect on Israeli writers Lea Goldberg and Yehuda Amichai's projections of Leah, Rachel and Jacob into modern times. We will consider whether the authors' genders and love lives influence their take on the story. The poems will be read in the original Hebrew as well as English translation. Everyone is welcome, regardless of parenting status!