Join KB in person or online for a member-led service, guest speaker, and some time to schmooze! Childcare will be available.

For the Zoom link, please email Lidia at lpruente@kahalbraira.org.

Approximate Schedule
9:30am - candle lighting blessings
9:40am - announcements and service
10:30am - coffee & schmooze
11:00am - program or guest speaker

Program: Tu B'Shvat: Place-based Learning at Gull Island Institute
with Dr. Ana Isabel Keilson, PhD (she/hers), Co-Executive Director and co-Founder, Gull Island Institute

Tu B’Shvat invites us to reflect on our relationship not just to trees but to the land and places we inhabit - and how we might learn from them. In this talk, we’ll learn how place-based immersion forms the pedagogical core of the Gull Island Institute, a liberal arts non-profit located on Cape Cod that is grounded in three “pillars” of academics, physical labor, and student self-governance. Together, we’ll discuss several questions that are central to Gull Island curricula that have resonances with Jewish theology (in general) and Tu B’Shvat (in particular). These include: what does it mean to inhabit a place well? What is good work? What (or who) is education for? What are our responsibilities to the environment, and to each other?