Learn how to make your congregation/caterer's/summer camp's kitchen truly kosher from a traditional halakhic perspective and within the psycho-halakhah of Jewish renewal. Participants will discuss the required readings in 13 one-hour teleconferences from June thru December. The practicum (June 25-29, 2007, in Albuquerque, NM) combines study with hands-on experience koshering a comercial kitchen.

REGISTRATION closes on January 12.

INSTRUCTORS

Rabbi Dennis Beck-Berman is the spiritual leader of Congregation Brith Achim in Petersburg, VA. He is a Past President of OHALAH: Association of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal and has served as Mashgiach of the ALEPH Kallah for nearly a decade. Rabbi Beck-Berman received semikhah from Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi in 1983. Reb Zalman taught him the art of hashgachah while kashering the kitchen at Fellowship House Farm for P’nai Or retreats.

Rabbi Victor Gross is co-rabbi of congregation Pardes Levavot in Boulder, CO. He is a member of the ALEPH Rabbinic Board of Academic Advisors (Vaad) and teaches Jewish History and thought. Reb Victor learned hashgachah in the JTS Rabbinical School and has been the mashgiach for Ruach HaAretz and Ohalah