Resources
Adult Education
Adult Ed 5771 Flyer (Word)Also see HBT book club details
NEW!!! - Shabbat Torah Study (Saturdays 8:45 - 9:45 am) beginning
Oct. 9 and continuing: 10/30, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/18, 1/15,
1/29, 2/12, 3/5, 3/26, 4/2, 5/14, 6/11
Learn the weekly Parashah (Torah portion) with Rabbi Penzner. This program will be offered in conjunction with COSMOS, the Committee on Shabbat Morning Services. All experience levels welcome!
SAVE THE DATES:
Friday, November 12, 2010 8:00 pm -- Fourth Annual Allen J. Worters Memorial Lecture featuring Dr. Deanna Klepper, Professor of Medieval Jewish History at Boston University
Friday, December 17 – Saturday, December 18, 2010 - Human Rights Shabbaton with Rabbi Brian Walt, founder and former executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights. This program is being co-sponsored by the Avodah and the Tikkun Olam committees at HBT.
Monthly Shabbat Adult Book Club and Discussion Group
Saturday, September 25th, 12:45 (after Kiddush) until 2:00 pm.
Now in its third year, join a lively group in reading and discussing Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France by Maggie Anton. In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to take over the family winemaking business and embarks on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world—writing the first Talmud commentary, and teaching it to his daughters. Joheved, her mind and spirit awakened, knows the risk and keeps her learning hidden. When she weds, must she choose between marital happiness and her love of Talmud?
Upcoming books and dates:
Oct. 30th: Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant (2010) – with a guest presentation by the author
Nov. 20th: My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family’s Past by Ariel Sabar
Jan 8th: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz – with a special showing of the film The Little Traitor starring Alfred Molina
Feb. 5th: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved out an Empire in the New World in their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom – and Revenge by Ed Kritzler - with a special panel of presenters on Jews of the Caribbean
Mar. 5th: Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who gave us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
Apr. 2nd: Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging, Derek Rubin, ed.
Sunday, May 1st: The Reader by Bernard Schlink – A Yom HaShoah reading with a special showing of the film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes
For more information, contact Leslie Belay (617/522-5417). You are welcome to attend whether you have read the books or not!
Ikkarim: Jewish Educational Series for Parents of Young Children (and others!)
Sunday mornings beginning October 24that 10:15 am; cost for the 19 session series is $250 per person, which includes childcare if needed.
Come
explore basic Jewish values and their modern significance by bringing
contemporary concerns to text-study. Discover how these values apply within—and
can enrich—our many circles of relationships: with our children, family and
friends; the larger Jewish community, and even with ourselves and with God. Rabbi Beth Naditch
will facilitate this program of Jewish text study and discussion
developed for parents of young children, which at HBT is open to all.
Ikkarim is sponsored by Hebrew College and CJP. For more information, contact Raylea Pemstein at 617-559-8708. Register online at www.cjp.org/ikkarim.
Additional Programs planned for this year include:
HBT Saturday Night Film Club – with Havdallah and dinner Cost: $5-10
Sept. 25th – Holy Land Hardball
Dec. 18th – Refusnik (as part of the Human Rights Shabbaton)
Jan. 8th – The Little Traitor (part of Shabbat Book Club)
Feb. 5th – Pizza in Auschwitz
Sunday, May 1st – The Reader (part of Shabbat Book Club and Yom HaShoah commemoration)
For more information, contact: Elana Wolkoff [enwconsult@yahoo.com]
Post-Ikkarim Discussion Group with Dr. Natan Margalit (Sundays 12:15 pm) Cost: $180
8 sessions beginning Oct. 3rd, on themes relating to Jewish Peoplehood and Jewish Holidays/God. This is a continuation of last year’s Ikkarim class but a few spaces are still open to new members. Contact Larni Rosenlev larnibarni@yahoo.com for details.
Muslim-Jewish Dialogue Group (dates/times to be announced)
For more information, contact Miriam Messinger, 617-445-9814. Registration at the HBT office required. The Dialogue is co-sponsored by HBT Tikkun Olam Committee.
2010-2011 Guest Speaker Series (dates and times to be announced)
Book Signing Party, with Joan Leegant (author of Wherever You Go) – Thursday, October 21 8:00 pm
Special topics in Torah Interpretation, with Penina Weinberg
Jews of the Caribbean, with special guest speakers (in conjunction with the Shabbat Book Club)
Marriage Workshop “Renewing the Covenant” with Judy Elkin
“Kaddish for Kovno” Holocaust photo presentation by Geoffrey Brahmer
Our Temple Hillel B’nai Torah community is blessed with a wealth of contacts and expertise among our own temple members. If you are interested in making an Adult Ed presentation or bringing in a guest speaker to present on a topic of interest to our community, please contact Adult Ed Committee Chair Leslie Belay [leslie.belay@verizon.net] to explore possible program ideas and logistical details.