Shalom!


We're excited to present this year's Elul Classes! Join BCC's clergy and our special guests to enrich your spiritual journey through this reflective and important time in the Jewish calendar. Sessions are on August 30, September 6, 13, and 20 at 7 pm in place of our usual Tuesday Torah Study.

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Learn more about our teachers below:

August 30: "E.L.U.L: What's love got to do with it?" with Rabbi Jillian Cameron


Rabbi Cameron is a native of New Jersey and an alumna of Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where she majored in Jewish Studies and was a proud member of Trinity’s oldest and only co-ed a cappella group.

September 6: "Practical Teshuva - an invitation to realign with our true selves" with Cantor Juval Porat


Juval Porat, M.Arch., was born in Israel and moved to Germany with his family as a child. For high school, he returned to Israel, where he studied at the Bnai Akiva Yeshiva. Back in Germany for university, he earned a master’s degree in architecture, and worked as an architect in Berlin.

September 13: "Unsettled Rabbis: Two Stories from the Talmud" with Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi


Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD, is an entrepreneurial rabbi with years of experience in the Hillel world. Based in Montclair, New Jersey, she brings her expertise in queer theory and belonging to her teaching.

September 20: "The Land and the Holidays" with Rabbinic Student Hannah Bender


Hannah Bender is a queer LA-based rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College. This year they are the student rabbi at the Claremont Colleges and are facilitating a trans/nonbinary teen group through Moving Traditions. Hannah is a cheese enthusiast, passionate collager, and lover of nature.

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