Kallah Reservation 50th Annual Kallah Program Perspectives on Human Dignity Fifty Years of the Temple Tear Off Card and Anti-Semitism Reyim Kallah: A Reflection Friday, April 5th

There is no charge for the Oneg Shabbat, the n this Kallah Weekend, our Scholar-in- he Temple Reyim Kallah is the oldest 7:30 PM Kabbalat Shabbat Service Shabbat Luncheon or Sunday Breakfast; Residence, Professor Susannah Heschel, of its kind in Massachusetts. Over the however, reservations are required for the Iwill share her unique perspective on the Tlast fifty years, we as a congregation luncheon, and we would appreciate your Lecture 1: The importance of the Prophets Prophets, Human Dignity, and Modern Anti- have “broken bread” with our speakers on in Black-Jewish Relations reservation for the Oneg Shabbat and Sunday Semitism. a wide variety of topics. Breakfast. 9:00 PM Oneg Shabbat Lecture 1: The Importance of the A few of us have been here since the start. Others are new to our community. Name: ______Question and Answer Session Prophets in Black-Jewish Regardless, we all share in the pride of a

Relations unique, distinctly Reyim institution. Number of th Adults Children Saturday, April 6 In looking back, we once again give our Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., quote Oneg Shabbat profound thanks to the Goldweitz family for 9:00 AM Shabbat Service frequently from Amos and Isaiah and other Hebrew prophets. Indeed, the motto fo the showing the foresight in establishing and supporting this wonderful program. In Shabbat Luncheon Lecture 2: Human Dignity in Civil Rights Movement is Amos 5:21: “Let justice roll down like water and addition, we show our appreciation to the countless volunteers and committee Sunday Breakfast 12:30 PM Shabbat Luncheon righteousness as a mighty stream.” What is members who have worked these last five (Reservations required) the significance of this for Jewish history? decades to make our Kallah the special

A donation to our Kallah provides Temple event it is. Question and Answer Session Reyim with the resources to support this and Lecture 2: Human Dignity in other cultural and educational activities. A Judaism To mark this Golden Anniversary, our contribution in any amount is welcome. Sunday, April 7th Committee has assembled some of the

highlights of previous years. In March, Patron Level: $ 360 Human Dignity is enshrined in the UN charter these items will be displayed in our 9:30 AM Continental Breakfast Donor Level: $ 250 and in the 1948 Universal Declaration of synagogue. This display is just a small part

Sponsor Level: $ 136 Human Rights. What do Jewish teachings of our Kallah archives, which are lovingly Lecture 3: Modern Anti-Semitism Supporter: $ 36 about the dignity of the person contribute to maintained by David Stollar. Please take

this important international principle? How some time to visit our temple and see it. Question and Answer Session I/We would like to support the Kallah with a might Judaism’s teachings be modified in contribution of: $ ______light of current political movements? May our Kallah continue for decades to Concluding Remarks: come. May it remain a place for learning Rabbi Daniel Berman Check Enclosed Lecture 3: Modern Anti-Semitism and sharing. And may it always be a source of pride to our Community of PLEASE RETURN THIS CARD BEFORE Antisemitism is suddenly re-emerging Friends. MARCH 29, 2018, TO: throughout the world. Many of us had assumed this was impossible after the The Kallah Committee horrors of WWII and the Holocaust, and Jews Mr. Joel Bloom c/o Temple Reyim never expected antisemitism to flourish in 1860 Washington Street the United States. How do historians In loving memory of Gussie, Saul, and Newton, MA 02466 evaluate and analyze this terrible phenomenon? Harriet Goldweitz

An Invitation for Sponsorship The Speaker Temple Reyim

For 50 years, the Temple Reyim Kallah has Susannah Heschel is Rabbi Philip Kieval brought us speakers who have inspired us and the Eli Black Professor challenged us. We invite you to help us of Jewish Studies at th continue this tradition by donating to us as a . Her 50 Annual Kallah Patron, Donor, or Sponsor. scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian All donations will be used to support this relations in Germany Kallah; if donations exceed our costs, the during the 19th and balance will be dedicated to other educational 20th centuries, the activities at Temple Reyim. history of biblical Perspectives on Human scholarship, and the To become a sponsor, complete and mail the history of anti-Semitism. She has also taught Dignity and Anti-Semitism attached card, or contact Joel Bloom, Kallah at Southern Methodist University and Case Chair, at [email protected]. Western Reserve University. She has an A.B. from Trinity College, an M.T.S from , and a Ph.D from the The Temple Reyim Kallah University of Pennsylvania.

In 1968 Saul and Harriet Goldweitz Professor Heschel is the recipient of Professor Susannah approached Rabbi Philip Kieval with a request numerous grants, including from the Ford for an annual program in memory of Saul’s Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, and a Heschel mother, Gussie Goldweitz. Rabbi Kieval yearlong Rockefeller fellowship at the suggested the Kallah weekend as a vehicle for National Humanities Center. She has Scholar-in-Residence this memorial; a program at which Temple received four honorary doctorates from members and their guests share in Shabbat universities in the United States, Canada, services, lectures, and discussions, and the and Germany. Currently she is a Guggenheim Fellow and is writing a book on “breaking of bread” with fellow congregants. the history of European Jewish scholarship In 1988, just prior to Rabbi Kieval taking on Islam. In 2015 she was elected a member A Weekend of Prayer, Study and emeritus status, we proudly named the series of the American Society for the Study of in his honor. Religion. Fellowship

The author of over one hundred articles, she has also edited several books, including The Kallah Committee Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity:

Essays of ; Daniel Berman, Rabbi

Betrayal: German Churches and the Ellen Tanowitz President Holocaust (with Robert P. Ericksen); et Joel Bloom, Chair Insider/Outsider: American Jews and April 5-7, 2019

Multiculturalism(with David Biale and Michael Bryon Rakoff Harvey Berman Galchinsky). She serves on the academic Eugene Sheppard David Stollar 29 Adar II– 2 Nisan, 5779 advisory council of the Center for Jewish Stephen Soltoff Sara Berman Studies in Berlin and on the Board of Joan Listernick Carol Stollar Trustees of Trinity College. Rich Klein Jay Prizant

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