West Hartford – “Civil Discourse at Home, in the Office, and Out in the Community: A Jewish Conversation,” with Rabbi Shira Stutman, senior rabbi, Sixth & I; light dinner; hosted by Greater Hartford Jewish Leadership Academy; 6 p.m.; at Gengras Student Union Ballroom, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., (860) 727-6151, jlahartford.org.