Community Potluck Brunch April 7, 2024 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Share a bit of nosh for the potluck, enjoy a mimosa/bubbly drink, and meet up with new/old friends, with fun badges and signs to spark connections. It’ll be a Sunday simcha – good food, good company, and good times. Register here.
Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt April 7, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt Hebrew 3 is for learners able to sound out and print Hebrew words. This class will explore the grammar and vocabulary of modern Hebrew through a variety of reading, writing, and speaking activities. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300. (five-student minimum for this class, scholarships are available) Non-Members Register Here Members Register Here DORIT FLATT ...
Hebrew 2 with Bluma April 7, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hebrew 2 with Bluma Hebrew 2 is for learners seeking more meaningful participation at services. This class provides opportunities to improve your Hebrew reading fluency while exploring the structure, themes, and key Hebrew vocabulary of the Shabbat morning worship service and its individual prayers. Hebrew 2 also includes basic elements of Hebrew grammar. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300 ...
Hebrew 1 with Nancy Fink April 11, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Hebrew 1 with Bluma Stoller Can you open a Siddur and participate in the Synagogue service? Do you want to read the prayers in Hebrew? For learners with no or limited Hebrew language background. This class focuses on mastery of the hebrew alphabet in order to read and understand Hebrew words and phrases in the prayer book and modern usage. ...
A Close Look at Torah with Rabbi Andrea London April 12, 2024 @ 9:30 am - 10:45 am A Close Look at Torah with Rabbi Andrea London There are many ways to interpret Torah and its nuances of meaning that are often overlooked. We will continue our learning from last year, reading and interpreting the text of the Book of Deuteronomy line by line. New learners are always welcome. No Fee for members; non-members fee is $130 Non-Members Register Here Members Register ...
What is Antisemitism? With David Shyovitz April 12, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm What is Antisemitism? With David Shyovitz In modern political discourse, “Antisemitism” is frequently invoked and infrequently defined. The imprecision with which the term is deployed leads to broad disagreements about the nature and scope of the phenomenon. Is anti-Semitism a form of racism? Of xenophobia? Of anti-religious animus, akin to Islamophobia? Is it a conspiracy theory? Does antisemitism assume that Jews ...
Reading the Book of Nature: A Wordless Text of Wonder and Awe April 14, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am It's no wonder the poetries and prayer, even the liturgical calendar, of Judaism, inscribed by an ancient agrarian people, would be punctuated with both early and celestial allusion and metaphor. It's through the realm of all creation that humans first came to understand the divine, and in this conversation with author Barbara Mahany we'll explore ...
Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt April 14, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Hebrew 3 with Dorit Flatt Hebrew 3 is for learners able to sound out and print Hebrew words. This class will explore the grammar and vocabulary of modern Hebrew through a variety of reading, writing, and speaking activities. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300. (five-student minimum for this class, scholarships are available) Non-Members Register Here Members Register Here DORIT FLATT ...
Hebrew 2 with Bluma April 14, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hebrew 2 with Bluma Hebrew 2 is for learners seeking more meaningful participation at services. This class provides opportunities to improve your Hebrew reading fluency while exploring the structure, themes, and key Hebrew vocabulary of the Shabbat morning worship service and its individual prayers. Hebrew 2 also includes basic elements of Hebrew grammar. Member fee $250; non-member fee $300 ...
Hebrew 1 with Nancy Fink April 18, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Hebrew 1 with Bluma Stoller Can you open a Siddur and participate in the Synagogue service? Do you want to read the prayers in Hebrew? For learners with no or limited Hebrew language background. This class focuses on mastery of the hebrew alphabet in order to read and understand Hebrew words and phrases in the prayer book and modern usage. ...
A Close Look at Torah with Rabbi Andrea London April 19, 2024 @ 9:30 am - 10:45 am A Close Look at Torah with Rabbi Andrea London There are many ways to interpret Torah and its nuances of meaning that are often overlooked. We will continue our learning from last year, reading and interpreting the text of the Book of Deuteronomy line by line. New learners are always welcome. No Fee for members; non-members fee is $130 Non-Members Register Here Members Register ...
Discussion about the book Can We Talk about Israel – Part 2 April 21, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:15 am Join Rabbi London for a two-part discussion of the book, Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch. The Jewish Book Council wrote this review of Sokatch’s book: “Can We Talk about Israel? is a supremely nuanced discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, past and present. It is broad ...
