Special Community Lecture

Rabbi Arthur Green  

Judaism After 2025: Thoughts Amid a Crisis of Conscience 

📅 Wednesday, October 22, 2025  

🕕 7:00 p.m. (MT) — Please log in by 6:50 p.m.  

📍 Online via Zoom  

🔗 Click HERE to Register: 

(A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants by Wednesday afternoon.)  

10/21/2025 

Dear Friends, 

Rabbi Arthur Green is not a pundit, nor is he a journalist. He is one of the great scholars of Jewish history—especially of Jewish mysticism and the literature of the 18th-century Hasidic movement. His erudition spans the full breadth of Jewish thought and tradition. 

Tomorrow evening, we will have a rare opportunity to hear a great historian reflect on the Jewish people at this present moment, viewed through the lens of our long and storied history. Rabbi Green has shared with me that the talk he has prepared is both profound and urgent—anchored in deep reflection on the uniqueness and the peril of this time. I strongly encourage you to make time to listen. 

If you are able, I also invite you to read Rabbi Green’s recent essay, “A Letter to My Israeli Brothers and Sisters,” written to his colleagues, friends, and fellow Jews in Israel. It is an eloquent and thought-provoking message from a Diaspora Jew who loves Israel deeply yet is troubled by recent developments in the ongoing war in Gaza. The essay anticipates many of the themes he will explore in tomorrow’s talk.  

After the lecture, I would welcome hearing your reflections—either in response to the talk or to Rabbi Green’s letter. Please write to me at dov@shabbatwithfriends.org, using the subject line “Rabbi Green’s Lecture.” 

Please be sure to register for the event below. The Zoom link will be sent to all registrants tomorrow afternoon. I encourage you to log in no later than 6:50 p.m., ten minutes before the lecture begins. 

If you experience any difficulties connecting, please contact our Zoom moderator, Victoria, at vicckymykes@gmail.com or via WhatsApp at +234 813 958 1122. 

A recording of the lecture will be posted afterward on the Shabbat with Friends blog at www.shabbatwithfriends.org. 

With warm regards,  

Rabbi Dov Gartenberg  

Shabbat with Friends New Mexico