Rabbi Arthur Green’s Shabbat with Friends Special Presentation on Wednesday, October 22, 2025
One hundred and sixty people from all over the United States joined the online public lecture presented by Shabbat with Friends by Rabbi Arthur Green on "Judaism After 2025." The attendees included dozens of rabbis, Jewish community leaders across the country as well as many folks from the New Mexico Jewish community.
Rabbi Green’s lecture was timely and very important. Tapping his erudition in Jewish history, Rabbi Green gave a powerful message about the crisis in Judaism in the wake of the war in Gaza and the rise of antisemitism. It is a lecture you will want to share with friends as a foundation for conversations about the future of Judaism, the Jewish people, and relations between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora.
Rabbi Art Green
“It was 1961. I was all of 20 years old, a college senior and president of student Hillel at Brandeis University. I was thrilled to be engaged in deep conversation with Rabbi Zalman Schachter, whom I had invited to spend a weekend on our campus. He was just on his way out of being a traditional Chabad hasid. I had been through a self-imposed period of Orthodoxy in my adolescent years, followed by a sharp rebellion against it. I was well on my way toward my life as a Jewish seeker. I had met Reb Zalman earlier and I knew that he could be an important guide in my journey. Amid many other things he said, long forgotten, he spoke one sentence that has remained with me over these more than 60 years. It was in Yiddish, a language we both understood and valued, even though most of our conversation took place in English. “Yiddishkeyt iz a derekh in avoide,” he said. Judaism is a way of service, of serving God.”
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About
Rabbi Arthur Green
Rabbi Arthur Green is a preeminent Jewish scholar, theologian, and educator. A foremost student of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, z”l, Rabbi Green has devoted his life to making Judaism’s mystical and spiritual brilliance accessible to all.
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Founder of the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College, Boston
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Author of 18 books, including The Ten Best Ideas of Judaism, Radical Judaism, and Judaism for the World (National Jewish Book Award, 2021)
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Mentor to hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and educators.
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Visionary voice offering a spiritual alternative to both religious extremism and secular disconnection.
A beloved teacher and eloquent speaker, this is a rare opportunity to learn from one of the most original Jewish theologians of our time.
