By Jeffrey Catalano
Assistant Editor
Starting on Thursday, January 15, Café Alma will be hosting a three-month long, once a month gathering of learning, dialogue and community. The next two sessions will be on Thursday, February 19, and Thursday, March 19. Each session will last from approximately 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Café Alma would be happy to have you attend these nights of Jewish learning and community, 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 new event, “Texts for Our Time,” will encourage and nurture active learning and communal engagement with Jewish texts. Each session will offer a vibrant, educational space where learners of all practices, knowledge and backgrounds can 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. Join Café Alma this January, February and March in its new house of study, or beit midrash, right here in Cincinnati.
