2019 Fall/Winter Center for Jewish Learning

ADULT EDUCATION COURSE CATALOG 2019 FALL/WINTER CENTER FOR JEWISH LEARNING

WHO WE ARE The Center for Jewish Learning (CJL) supports Jewish learning as a critical link in ensuring a vibrant and thriving Jewish community. We strive to support existing learning opportunities within the community for all ages and offer compelling pluralistic Jewish educational experiences. We encourage you to explore the CJL Course Catalog and consider diving into something new this fall. Learn more at JFedSTL.org/CJL.

Cyndee Levy, Director of CJL and Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library Rabbi Tracy Nathan, Senior Educator, CJL, and Director of Melton-St. Louis Cynthia Wachtel, Shlichut Program Supervisor Shirley Wise, Registrar and Database Specialist Kathy Schmeltz, Resource Assistant, CJL

TABLE OF CONTENTS Text and Thought...... 2

Hebrew Language...... 4

History, Politics, and Current Events...... 5

The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning...... 6

Yiddish Culture and Music Celebration...... 7

Arts and Culture...... 8

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series...... 9

Registration Information...... 11

Cover Image Ayin Samekh Nun from The Creation, ca. 1980, a series of tapestries designed by Mordecai Ardon (1896-1992). © Mordecai Ardon / Courtesy Ardon Estate / Photo: Courtesy Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem

1 TEXT AND THOUGHT WRESTLING WITH ANGELS BUILDERS BEIT MIDRASH: IMAGINING A JEWISH Rabbi Elizabeth Hersh FUTURE This course will use the book Wrestling with Angels: What Rabbi Micah Buck-Yael Genesis Teaches Us about our Spiritual Identity, Sexuality, Using the SVARA method of learning Talmud, we will read and Personal Relationships, by Naomi H. Rosenblatt and texts through a lens that is feminist, queer-oriented, and Joshua Horwitz, to discuss how the Book of Genesis may focused on the importance of hearing marginalized voices. speak to us today. Topics will include the challenges of This is a multi-level course: All texts will be studied in the adulthood, the nature of leadership, the challenges of faith, original Hebrew/Aramaic, with the tools and support the joys of sexuality, and the empowerment of a spiritual needed to ensure that anyone who can sound out the identity. aleph-bet will be able to read and interpret the text for 1902. Thu 11:30 am-12:30 pm themselves Unit 1: 10 classes from 9/26-12/12 (no class 10/10, 11/28) 1905. Tue 7-9 pm | 7 classes from 10/29-12/17 (no class $100 11/26) | $100 Unit 2: 7 classes from 2/6-4/2 (no class 3/19, 3/26) | $70 Location: MaTovu, 4200 Blaine Ave., 63110 Location: Temple Emanuel, 12166 Conway Rd., 63141 HURTING EACH OTHER: THE TALMUD OF READING THE NEW TESTAMENT THROUGH A PERSONAL INJURY JEWISH LENS Rabbi Seth Gordon Rabbi Mark Shook You are in a car accident or trip over a child’s toys, which This course will explore the foundational text of Christianity results in injury and/or property damage. Who is within a Jewish historical and literary context. A major responsible? How much is the liability? Our class will focus of the course will be an examination of the points of explore the issues of personal injury and property damage departure between Rabbinic Judaism and early Christian in the Talmud and their commentaries and in law. Text theology. material provided. We will use The Jewish Annotated New Testament, edited 1906. Mon noon-1 pm | 6 classes from 11/4-12/16 | $60 by Amy Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, Oxford University Press, 2011, New York, NY, which may be purchased from a Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus variety of sellers. Dr., 63146 1903. Tue 7-8:30 pm | 6 classes from 11/5-12/17 (no class 11/26) | $90 JEWISH MYSTICAL TALES Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr. Howard Schwartz Dr., 63146 Using texts from Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Texts, selected and retold by Howard Schwartz, we will read and discuss Rabbinic, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic tales, along with FEARLESS WOMEN OF THE BIBLE some modern mystical stories of Rabbi Zalman Schachter- Cyndee Levy Shalomi. Each class will explore strong women of the Bible who face 1910. Thu 7-8:30 pm | 6 classes from 10/31-12/12 | $90 difficult situations. Some women appear briefly or lack plus book (offered at a discounted rate through author even a name, but their actions are powerful and inspiring with minimum order) for us today. Feel free to arrive early to purchase lunch at the on-site HJ’s cafe. Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146 1904. Mon noon-1 pm | 11/18, 12/16, 1/13 | $10 per class or $30 for the series Location: Mirowitz Center, Covenant Place, 8 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146

2 TEXT AND THOUGHT CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITERS JEWISH RESPONSES TO LIFE’S MOST Marcia Moskowitz CHALLENGING QUESTIONS: A MELTON MINI-COURSE This reading-and-discussion course explores contemporary Jewish writers’ perspectives on the themes of modern Rabbi Tracy Nathan and Dr. Harold Braswell society. Among our works will be novels by American Why do people suffer? Why is there evil in the world? This writers Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, and new Melton mini-course explores responses to difficult Israeli writers Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Amos Oz. human questions through the eyes of the rabbinic sages Note: Each unit will stand on its own, so you may sign up and modern thinkers, presenting multiple approaches in for any or all. the quest for understanding and meaning. Based on Rabbi 1908. Wed 11:30 am-1 pm Dr. Morey Schwartz’s book, Where’s My Miracle? Exploring Unit 1: 8 classes from 10/23-12/18 (no class 11/27) | $120 Jewish Traditions for Dealing with Tragedy. Unit 2: 6 classes from 1/8-2/12 | $90 1911. Mon 7-8:30 pm | 4 classes from 10/28-11/25 (no class Unit 3: 5 classes from 2/26-3/25 | $75 11/11) | $42 plus $18 book fee Unit 4: 5 classes from 4/22-5/20 | $75 Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146 Dr., 63146

SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN THE GREAT A PROJECT OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM STORIES OF OUR TRADITION: LUNCH AND LEARN Cyndee Levy Our discussions will focus on uncovering the hidden wisdom in selected stories from our tradition. Source materials will be drawn from the Bible, historic and contemporary Jewish commentary, and narrative selections from Talmud. A light kosher dairy lunch will be served (reservations required). 1909. Third Tuesday of the month, noon-1:30 pm 10 classes from 9/17-7/21 (no October class) $15 per class or $145 for all classes Location: Home of Cyndee Levy (address provided after registration)

JEREMIAH: PROPHET OF PAIN, HERALD OF HOPE Rabbi Lane Steinger This course will be a survey of one of the most influential figures in the Bible. The prophet Jeremiah lived at a crucial time, and the influence of his thinking and message profoundly impacted the course of Judaism. 1901. Tue 11:30 am-12:30 pm 4 classes from 10/29-11/19 | $40 Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630 Dr., 63146 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

3 HEBREW LANGUAGE BIBLICAL HEBREW: TRANSLATING AND CONVERSATIONAL MODERN HEBREW-SECOND DISCUSSING THE BOOK OF JOSHUA LEVEL Rabbi Shulamit Cenker Ariel Kielmanowicz In this upper level Biblical Hebrew course, students will Students will acquire the necessary vocabulary and translate and discuss the meaning of passages from the grammar for basic conversation and reading of Modern Book of Joshua. Hebrew. Students will read, listen to stories, songs, and dialogues, and participate in guided class discussions. 1912. Mon 10-11:30 am Students must be able to read and pronounce Hebrew Unit 1: 9 classes from 9/9-11/25 (no class 9/30, 10/14, letters and words. 10/21, 12/2) | $135 Unit 2: 10 classes from 1/27-4/6 (no class 2/17) | $150 1915. Tue 7:45-8:45 pm Unit 1: 6 classes from 11/5-12/17 (no class 11/26)| $60 Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Unit 2: 8 classes from 1/7-2/25 | $80 Dr., 63146 Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146 BEGINNING HEBREW Rabbi Shulamit Cenker This course introduces the letters and vowels of the Hebrew aleph-bet with the goal of developing the student’s ability to phonetically sound out any vocalized Hebrew text and learn basic vocabulary. Students should purchase Aleph Isn’t Tough, edited by Linda Motzkin and Hara Person, URJ Press, 2000. 1913. Wed 7-8:30 pm | 10 classes from 9/18-12/4 (no class 10/9, 11/27) | $125 Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146

CONVERSATIONAL MODERN HEBREW-FIRST LEVEL Ariel Kielmanowicz Students will acquire the necessary vocabulary and grammar for basic conversation and reading of Modern Hebrew. Students will read, listen to stories, songs, and dialogues, and participate in guided class discussions. Students must be able to read and pronounce Hebrew letters and words. 1914. Tue 6:30-7:30 pm Unit 1: 6 classes from 11/5-12/17 (no class 11/26) | $60 Unit 2: 8 classes from 1/7-2/25 | $80 Teth Heth Zayin from The Creation, ca. 1980, a series of tapestries designed by Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Mordecai Ardon (1896-1992). © Mordecai Ardon / Courtesy Ardon Estate / Photo: Courtesy Shaare Zedek Medi- Dr., 63146 cal Center, Jerusalem

4 HISTORY, POLITICS, AND CURRENT EVENTS

JEWISH CURRENT EVENTS ISRAEL’S FOREIGN POLICY Robert Cohn Dr. Elai Rettig Explore the news and events of the day through a Dr. Elai Rettig, the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow in Israeli Jewish lens and enjoy a spirited discussion with the and Environmental Studies at Washington University in Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the St. Louis Jewish Light. St. Louis, will explore what drives Israel’s foreign policy. How do Zionism, Judaism, trauma, and war influence 1916. 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, 10-11 am (no Israel’s engagement with the rest of the world? class 1/2, 4/16) | 17 classes from 9/19-6/18 | $170 Jan 9 | Is Israel Part of the Middle East? Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone We examine the tension between Israel’s geography and Campus Dr., 63146 its desire to be part of the West, and ask whether Israel is a foreign entity in the Middle East. We review Israel’s GALIA AND MILTON MOVITZ, SENATOR JOHN changing role in the Middle East, from a country under DANFORTH ISRAEL SCHOLARS PROGRAM complete economic boycott to an integral part of an FOR ADULTS emerging Sunni alliance against Iran. We will also discuss Rabbi Michael Rovinsky the moral dilemmas that this alliance entails. Participants will be Jan 16 | Israel and Germany – In the Shadow of the introduced to the history of Holocaust Israel, beginning with the We discuss the complicated relations between Israel and ancient and medieval eras Germany, from the question of receiving reparations from through the development Germany during the 1950s, to the influx of young Israelis of modern political Zionism living in Berlin in recent decades. We ask whether Israelis in 19th century Europe until the establishment of the forgave Germany for the Holocaust, and whether Germans state of Israel. The second part of the course will cover forgive the Jews for Auschwitz. the relationship of the State of Israel to the Arab world, Jan 23 | Israel and Europe – Between Economics and and we will seek to understand both the Israeli and Politics Palestinian narratives of Israel’s history. The last part of The European Union is Israel’s largest trade partner. Yet the course will cover the historical relationship between the politics between Israel and the EU have known highs Israel and the United States; the contributions of Israel and deep lows throughout the decades. We discuss Israeli to the world in the arena of medical and technological foreign relations with the EU and several of its state- advancements; the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions members, particularly France, UK, and the countries of (BDS) movement; and the rise in anti-Israel sentiment on Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union (including the university campus and around the world. Russia). 1917. Mon 7:15-8:45 pm | 12 classes from 11/4-2/10 (no Jan 30 | Israel and the Developing World – Tikun Olam vs. class 1/20) | $180 Realpolitik Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone We review the evolution of Israel’s relations with various Campus Dr., 63146 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. We discuss the conflicting motivations driving these relations and the moral questions they raise. 1918. Thu 7-8:30 pm | 4 classes, 1/9-1/30 | $15 per class or $40 for the series Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146

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KODAK MOMENTS AND TECHNICOLOR DREAMS: READING IMMIGRANT CLUES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY PHOTOS Maureen Taylor In this Jewish genealogy workshop, internationally recognized expert on historic photograph identification Maureen Taylor will guide participants in discovering their family history one picture at a time. She will share her passion on getting people to dig deep into their family history in order to tell the story of their ancestors. She will present tools and tips for photo identification, family history and research, and photo preservation. Co-sponsored by the Brodsky Library, the St. Louis Jewish Community Archives, and the St. Louis Genealogical Society- Jewish Special Interest Group. 1919. Sun 10 am-noon | 12/8 | Free Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146

JEWISH DENOMINATIONS: CHALLENGES OF CROSSROADS OF JEWISH HISTORY MODERNITY Dr. Robert Taxman and Cyndee Levy Rabbi Elizabeth Hersh This course merges the concepts of history and memory in This course examines Jewish identity and religious order to better understand how each has shaped Judaism expression against the backdrop of dramatic political and today. It is part of the second year of the Core curriculum social change. Students will gain extensive insights into the for Melton (updated in 2015). Year one is NOT a prerequisite historical and ideological developments of the major for this course. movements and explore the impact of gender, assimilation, Unit 1 begins in the Biblical period Israel, and post-denominationalism on the movements and and moves through the Rabbinic the Jewish people. era, including the confrontation 1920. Thu 7-8:30 pm | 10 classes from 9/26-12/12 (no with Christianity and early Islam, class 10/10, 11/28) | $250 plus purchase of course reader early mysticism, and the Location: Temple Emanuel, 12166 Conway Rd., 63141 emergence of Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities. Unit 2 looks at life in the ghetto, the first crusades, reactions to the false Messiah Shabbetai Tzvi, the Enlightenment (Haskalah), the Hassidic movement, antisemitism, Zionism, the Holocaust, the creation of the State of Israel, and the immigration of Jews to the United States. A PROJECT OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM 1921. Wed 7-8:30 pm | Unit 1: 10 classes from 10/30-1/22 (no class 11/27) | Unit 2: 10 classes from 1/29-4/1 $200 each unit or $350 if registering for both units, plus Registration is through the Melton School. purchase of course reader Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Register at events.org/MeltonStLouis. Dr., 63146

6 ARTS AND CULTURE A CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH CULTURE AND MUSIC

HEBREW NATIONAL SALVAGE A Concert with Hankus Netsky and Eden Macadam-Somer Sunday, March 29 | 3 pm Details on venue forthcoming

Hankus Netsky, Ph.D., is a leading figure in the revival of Klezmer music and founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He was the Musical Director for Eternal Echoes, violinist Itzhak Perlman’s Sony recording and international touring project featuring Cantor Yitzkhak Meir Helfgot, and In the Fiddler’s House. He chairs the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory in Boston and is the Research Director of the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional Eastern European Jewish music. Eden MacAdam-Somer’s music transcends genre through soaring violin and fiddling, sweet vocals, and percussive dance. She has been a featured soloist with symphony and chamber orchestras, jazz and swing bands, and Eastern European and American folk ensembles. She has toured across the United States with her contemporary folk duo, NotoriousFolk. Hankus Netsky will be our community Scholar-in-Residence, March 29-31, and will offer a series of talks on Yiddish, Klezmer, and Hassidic music. Further details forthcoming at JFedSTL.org/CJL, or contact Rabbi Tracy Nathan at [email protected] or 314-442-3757.

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THE PLAY’S THE THING: AMY HERZOG’S AFTER THE REVOLUTION A CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH CULTURE AND MUSIC Kathleen Sitzer Plays are meant to be heard and read out loud. Join New Jewish Theatre Founding Artistic Director, Kathleen Sitzer, for this opportunity to hear the words as class members assume the roles of the characters in Amy Herzog’s play, After the Revolution. We will discuss the play and its themes after the reading. The play is a family drama and includes themes that resonate in today’s politically charged climate. Participants who are not interested in reading a role will serve as audience members, and roles will be swapped out as necessary to ensure everyone who wants to play a role has a chance to do so. 1922. Thu 7-9 pm | 2 classes, 10/24 and 10/31 | $20 plus $10 for script Location: MaTovu, 4200 Blaine Ave., 63110

ST. LOUIS JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL AND THE SAUL BRODSKY JEWISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY PRESENT THE MORRIS AND ANN LAZAROFF BOOK TALK JONATHAN BRENT Thursday, March 26 | 7 pm MARRA B. GAD Dr. Jonathan Brent is the Executive Monday, November 4 | 7 pm Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race for Jewish Research. In 2014, he Jewish Girl is an unforgettable debut memoir initiated The YIVO Vilna Collection about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after Project, an international project to fifteen years of estrangement from her racist conserve and digitize all of YIVO’s great-aunt, helps bring her home when she pre-WW II collections in New York develops Alzheimer’s disease. With honesty, City and Vilnius, Lithuania. His books insight, and warmth, Gad has written an include Stalin’s Last Crime and Inside inspirational chronicle proving that when all else the Stalin Archives. He has made three is stripped away, love is where we return and our documentaries on his work: Stalin’s Last greatest inheritance. Plot, Declassified: Stalin, and Stalin: Sponsored by The Morris and Ann Lazaroff Man of Steel. Endowment of the Saul Brodsky Jewish Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Community Library, the St. Louis Jewish Book Learning, Brodsky Library, and the Festival, and the Center for Jewish Learning. Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. Location: The J’s Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Dr., Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 63146 12 Millstone Campus Dr., 63146 Dr. Brent will speak at Congregation B’nai Amoona on Saturday, March 28.

8 YELLOW LOGO The Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series serves as a way to share information about compelling speakers featured throughout the St. Louis Jewish community. Speakers may be sponsored by the Center for Jewish Learning, by a Jewish community SPEAKER SERIES organization or agency, or through collaborative partnership.

ART GREEN | Thursday, September 19 | 7 pm RABBIS ARTHUR WASKOW AND Dr. Arthur Green was the founding dean PHYLLIS O. BERMAN | September 20-22 and is currently Rector of the Rabbinical Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D., is the School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Founding Director of The Shalom Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Hebrew Center and co-founded ALEPH: College. He is Professor Emeritus at Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Among Brandeis University, where he occupied the his books are Down-to-Earth distinguished Philip W. Lown Professorship Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the of Jewish Thought. Dr. Green is the author of Rest of Life. He is also the editor more than a dozen books, including Tormented Master: A of Torah of the Earth: 4,000 Years of Jewish Thought on Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, and Radical Judaism: Re- Ecology. thinking God and Tradition. Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman is the Founding Director of the Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Learning. Riverside Language Program, a unique school in New York Location: Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus City for teaching English language and American culture Dr., 63146 to new immigrants and refugees. She is a leading Jewish Dr. Green will be the Jick Kallah Scholar-in-Residence Renewal liturgist, author, and storyteller. at Congregation B’nai Amoona, 324 S. Mason Rd., 63141 Sponsored by Central Reform Congregation. September 20-21 Location: Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman B’nai Amoona events are sponsored by the Jick Family, the Blvd., 63108 Alex Family, and the Schuval Family.

DAVID MAKOVSKY SO IS LIFE/CANTOR ROSALIE BOXT, Thursday, September 26 | 7 pm CANTOR ELLEN DRESKIN, JOSH NELSON, DAN NICHOLS David Makovsky is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute and Saturday, September 21 | 8 pm Director of the Project on Arab-Israel So Is Life is comprised of four Relations. He is an adjunct professor in incomparable musicians, teachers, Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins clergy, and visionaries. Each a University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced talented musical force on their own, International Studies (SAIS). In 2013-14, he they come together to perform worked in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of only a few times each year. Their State, serving as a senior advisor to the Special Envoy for harmonies, melodies, and messages Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations. will teach and engage us on the themes of Selichot. The evening will conclude with a Sponsored by the JCRC and Dr. Carl and Lynn Lyss, in dessert reception. memory of Paul and Bluma Lyss. Sponsored by Congregation Shaare Emeth and made Location: Congregation B’nai Amoona, 324 S. Mason Rd., possible through the generosity of The Sam and Goldye 63141 Rosen Music Fund. Location: Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Rd., 63141 Watch for Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series email blasts throughout the year, or sign up directly for email blasts at JFedSTL.org/Email-Updates. For further information, visit the Sh’ma: Listen! page at JFedSTL.org/SpeakerSeries, or contact Cyndee Levy at [email protected] or 314-442-3754.

HANAN SCHLESINGER | SHADI ABU JOSH WEINBERG | January 10-12, 2020 AWWAD Rabbi Josh Weinberg is the Executive Thursday, November 21 | 7:30 pm Director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARZA). ARZA is the Zionist voice Enemies to Allies is an evening of of the Reform movement in America. Spend learning and discussion about the work the weekend learning with Rabbi Weinberg of Roots-Shorashim-Judur, an initiative in advance of the World Zionist Congress for understanding, nonviolence, and elections. transformation, which is creating a new discourse on the conflict in Israel. This Sponsored by Congregation Shaare Emeth. program is partially underwritten by the Location: Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Rd., Fred and Elsie Deutsch Endowment Fund of 63141 Congregation Shaare Emeth. Sponsored by Congregation Shaare Emeth, the JCRC, and JEANETTE KUVIN OREN | DAN OREN the Center for Jewish Learning. February 28-March 1, 2020 Location: Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Rd., 63141 Artist Jeanette Kuvin Oren designed Shaare Emeth’s Torah covers and has created and MARJORIE LEHMAN | November 22-24 installed more than 350 ritual pieces for houses of worship, Dr. Marjorie Lehman is schools, community centers, and Associate Professor of Talmud camps around the world. Author and Rabbinics at the Jewish Dan Oren recently published The Wedding Photo, which Theological Seminary. She is the co-editor tells the story of his 20-year search to solve a mystery after of Learning to Read Talmud: What it Looks a visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery. Like and How It Happens and Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination. She is working Sponsored by Congregation Shaare Emeth. on a feminist commentary of tractate Yoma of the Talmud. Location: Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Rd., She is the author of The En Yaaqov: Jacob Ibn Habib’s 63141 Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus. Dr. Lehman will be speaking on “The Talmud of #MeToo.” Sponsored by Kol Rinah Congregation, Congregation JACK MENDELSON | April 26, 2020 | 7 pm B’nai Amoona, the Rabbi Bernard Lipnick Foundation for Cantor and master storyteller Jack Mendelson Conservative Judaism, and the Hereld Institute for Jewish presents The Cantor’s Couch, a musical journey Studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary. through 1950s Borough Park, Brooklyn, a time Locations: when Jews would flock to the synagogue to Fri-Sat, Nov 22-23 | Kol Rinah Congregation, hear the golden voices of cantors as if it were a 829 N. Hanley Rd., 63130 concert hall. For over 25 years, Cantor Mendelson Sun, Nov 24 | Congregation B’nai Amoona, has taught at the Hebrew Union College School 324 S. Mason Rd., 63141 of Sacred Music and the H.L. Miller Cantorial School at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Sponsored by Congregation Shaare Emeth. Location: Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Rd., 63141

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. 10 COURSES BY DAY OF WEEK REGISTRATION INFORMATION SUNDAY Online registration is preferred at Kodak Moments and Technicolor Dreams: Reading JFedSTL.org/Adult-Education. Immigrant Clues in Twentieth Century Photos You may also pay in person or by mail with a check MONDAY made out to the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. Biblical Hebrew: Translating and Discussing the Book of Joshua Center for Jewish Learning Hurting Each Other: The Talmud of Personal Injury Jewish Federation of St. Louis Fearless Women of the Bible (at Mirowitz Center/ 12 Millstone Campus Drive Covenant Place) St. Louis, MO 63146 Israel Scholars Program Jewish Responses to Life’s Most Challenging Or feel free to call Kathy Schmeltz, Resource Questions Assistant, at 314-442-3761. TUESDAY Please have the course number available. Jeremiah: Prophet of Pain, Herald of Hope Builders Beit Midrash (at MaTovu) For confidential scholarship information, call or email Reading the New Testament through a Jewish Lens Rabbi Tracy Nathan at 314-442-3757 or Searching for Meaning Lunch and Learn (offsite) [email protected]. Conversational Modern Hebrew – First Level Conversational Modern Hebrew – Second Level See online course guide for full list of dates for classes and faculty bios. WEDNESDAY Contemporary Jewish Writers Postponement/Cancellation Crossroads of Jewish History-Melton The decision to run a class is based on the number Beginning Hebrew of students enrolled. You will be notified if a class is THURSDAY cancelled, and full refunds will be issued for classes Wrestling with Angels (at Temple Emanuel) cancelled by CJL. If you are planning to attend a Jewish Denominations-Melton (at Temple Emanuel) class, please register so that we know there are Jewish Current Events enough students to run the class. If you are not Jewish Mystical Tales certain if the class is a good fit, you are welcome to The Play’s the Thing (at MaTovu) come to the first class before making a decision – Israel’s Foreign Policy just let us know in advance.

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