By Jeffrey Catalano
Assistant Editor
On Thursday, March 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Café Alma will be concluding its three-month long, once a month gathering of learning, dialogue and community.
Café Alma would be happy to have you attend its final night of Jewish learning and community, which is inspired in large part by the historic Lehrhaus movement of 20th-century Europe.
This moment was started by Franz Rosenzweig in 1920, and was an important effort that helped revitalize the German Jewish population. Among other things, it made Jewish learning more accessible and relevant to assimilated Jews through their own lived experience.
Like the Lehrhaus movement, Café Alma’s event, “Texts for Our Time,” encourages and nurtures active learning and communal engagement with Jewish texts. Each session so far has offered a vibrant and educational space where learners of all practices, knowledge and backgrounds were able to explore the depth of Jewish thought, culture and practice.
“Texts for Our Time: Cincinnati’s Lehrhaus-Style Gathering” is open to lifelong learners, the newly curious and just about anyone in between.
