Temple Beth Hillel 9 Month Calendar October 2016/5777–June 2017/5777

Bet ple h H m il e le T l Adult Education and Major Temple Events 70

Est. 1946

Introduction

Happy 70th birthday, Temple Beth Hillel. Our history as a congregation in the East San Fernando Valley is varied and rich. So too, for each student who has learned from our community, from two years old to eighty years old, we have made our mark on countless souls. This year, 5777, our Adult Education Calendar is full of learning experiences that explore our past and challenge us to think about our future. We will live the words of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook who said, “the old shall be renewed, and the new shall be made holy.” I invite you to come and learn with us. To study our tradition, ancient and modern, and to make it holy for you. This is a presidential election year and we want to talk about it! Dr. Steven Windmueller will join us on Shabbat, Friday, October 28 following our Kabbalat Shabbat service to talk about “The Jewish Vote and the 2016 Elections: What’s at Stake on November 8th.” On November 11, we will join with our neighbors at Adat Ari El for a Shabbat Service at 6:00pm, a Shabbat Dinner at 7:00pm, and 8:00pm guest speakers and scholars J.J. Goldberg and Jonathan Tobin. RSVP to this event at bethhillel.info We are delighted to bring Ellen Allard to our congregation as scholar–in–residence. Ellen, an internationally recognized Jewish musician and composer, will lead us in musical worship on Friday, November 18 at 6:30pm. Ellen will also lead a special session with Rabbi Sarah Hronsky on Sunday, November 20 called, “Smoothies, Songs and Scripture.” This will be an opportunity to explore texts, sing together, and think about how the things we put in our bodies are expressions of our values. TBH will again participate in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Los Angeles Synagogue Collaborative. Scholars will present on four Sunday afternoons at a variety of locations. The theme, Visions for a Shared Society: The “Tribes” of Israel and explore questions including, what are the core values of some of the “tribes” that comprise Israel today – Secular, Arab Palestinian Israeli, Religious Zionist, and Ultra–Orthodox? How does a people divided along religious, geographic, and ideological lines build a shared society? What are the challenges and the possibilities for Israel in building a Jewish and Democratic State? Following some of the lectures there will be a dinner, where those in attendance can continue the discussion (there will be a fee for the optional dinner). The lectures are free for members of TBH. Our hallmark programs will happen this year, too. Join us for Torah Tuesday each week or for our monthly TBH Book Club. This year we are also introducing a new monthly Shabbat morning study on the second Shabbat of the month. These are just a few of our amazing adult learning opportunities. Please look through all of our learning opportunities in this Adult Education Calendar. We hope you will join us. To register for any of these programs, please contact the TBH Main office or check out our website, www.tbhla.org

I look forward to learning with you.

L’shalom,

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Find us on Youtube for special Have questions about our videos and our 2 Minutes of Torah! Adult Education programs? Find us at: Email us at: Temple Beth Hillel [email protected] Adult Education: Calendar Key Exclusive Events Frequent Happenings Annual Events Special Election Program Adult B’nai Mitzvah Tashlich & Havdalah at the Beach Cost: $3/per person We are in year two of a two year-program. Be on Tashlich starts at 5:00pm, but you may A representative from the League of Women Voters will the lookout for our next class, starting in Fall 2017. arrive as early as 3:00pm to picnic and enjoy present the pros and cons of the November Please contact our main office for more information community. Led by Rabbi Hronsky, Rabbi 8 ballot measures. Sponsored by the Women of TBH. by calling (818)763–9148 or you may e–mail us at Steinman, and Cantor Linsky. To be held at [email protected]. Will Rogers State Beach–Tower #8. Guest Speaker Torah Tuesday Sukkah–Putta–Uppa Cost: Free Join Brotherhood as they put up the Sukkah Smoothies, Songs and Scripture Torah study is the foundation of Jewish life and for the sukkot festival. Cost: $20 TBH members/$40 non–members learning. Come study Torah in a relaxed and Scholar–in–residence, Ellen Allard shares an friendly environment. No prior Torah study or Sukkah–Palooza opportunity to explore texts, sing together, and Hebrew knowledge is required, only a desire to Join us for a special Sukkot celebration think about how the things we put in our bodies are learn. including learning for all ages, blessings, live expressions of our values. music, and food trucks! TBH Book Club Small Classes Cost: Free Purim Feast, Shpiel & Megillah Reading Join us as we spend another year reading and Usher in Purim with a festive meal and a Who would have thunk it? learning together! The TBH Book Club will meet performance at TBH. RSVP for dinner to Cost: $120 TBH members/$240 non–members almost once per month and the discussions will be bethhillel.info Join us as we explore 6 decades of thinking. In each led by our clergy and fellow congregants. Dessert will Purim Carnival class we will explore one great thinker and one follow. There are rides, games, music, food and fun for aspect of their theology or philosophy. the whole family! RSVP to bethhillel.info No previous experience is required. Caring Across Generations Workshops Cost: Free Liturgies of Love Caring Across Generations meets bi–monthly Seder in the Desert XXXVIII A time of reflection, relaxation and community. Cost: $60 TBH members/$120 non–members to learn how to get involved with current issues RSVP to bethhillel.info What does it mean to be loved by an unending facing the generations. Find RSVP information at love, to love your fellow people, to love God, and bethhillel.info to love yourself? Brotherhood Thanksgiving Community Feast Text Study Our congregants rally together to bring a warm Shalom Hartman Institute Cost: Free Thanksgiving meal for those in need. Led by TBH Cost: Lectures are free to Temple Beth Hillel Join Rabbi Hronsky or Rabbi Steinman for a deep dive Brotherhood. members into texts that illuminate our lives today with the wis- Women of TBH Chanukah Boutique Lectures will be held 4:00pm–6:00pm, followed dom of our tradition. Coffee and nosh will be served. Come and shop your hearts out at our annual by a post–lecture dinner and discussion (there Chanukah Boutique. Many items from our will be no dinner on Jan. 22 due to the Valley Shabbat Services Gift Shop will be featured. AIPAC and Beit Teshuvah dinners). The only cost for the Temple Beth Hillel members is if they choose to stay for the post–lecture dinner. Cost for dinners cost $36/each or $100 for the three lectures that do have a post–lecture dinner. Tashlich & Havdalah Sukkah–Putta–Uppa Sukkah Palooza Legend at the Beach

Special Election Program TBH Book Club Torah Tuesday Adult B’nai Mitzvah Elul•Tishrei•5777 Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Irin Carmon Guest Speaker, Caring Across Text Study Shabbat Services Dr. Steven Windmueller Generations Workshop

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 28 Elul

1 29 Elul 1 Tishrei 2 Tishrei 3 Tishrei 4 Tishrei 5 Tishrei 6 Tishrei Erev Rosh HaShanah Rosh HaShanah Rosh HaShanah II 9:00am Temple Office Closed Temple Office Closed

5:00pm 2 3 4 5 6 6:00pm 7 8 7 Tishrei 8 Tishrei 9 Tishrei 10 Tishrei 11 Tishrei 12 Tishrei 13 Tishrei Erev Yom Kippur Yom Kippur 9:45am Temple Office Closes Temple Office Closed at Noon 9 10 11 12 13 7:00pm 14 15 14 Tishrei 15 Tishrei 16 Tishrei 17 Tishrei 18 Tishrei 19 Tishrei 20 Tishrei Erev Sukkot Sukkot Sukkot II Sukkot III Sukkot IV Sukkot V Sukkot VI 9:00am Temple Office Closed 12:30pm 7:00pm 4:00pm 16 17 18 19 20 7:30pm 21 22 21 Tishrei 22 Tishrei 23 Tishrei 24 Tishrei 25 Tishrei 26 Tishrei 27 Tishrei Simchat Torah Temple Office Closed 6:00pm 8:30am October•2016 12:30pm 7:00pm 12:30pm 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 Tishrei 29 Tishrei 8:30am Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule 30 31 For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info TBH Book Club Text Study

Smoothies, Songs Tishrei•Cheshvan•5777 Legend Short Story from The Oxford Book of and Scripture Jewish Stories, edited by Ilan Stavans Torah Tuesday Guest Speaker, Shalom Hartman Institute Brotherhood Thanksgiving J.J. Goldberg and Jonathan Tobin Yehuda Kurtzer at Leo Baek Temple Community Feast at Adat Ari El Adult B’nai Mitzvah Shabbat Services

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 30 Tishrei 1 Cheshvan 2 Cheshvan 3 Cheshvan 4 Cheshvan Rosh Chodesh

12:30pm 1 2 3 7:30pm 4 5 5 Cheshvan 6 Cheshvan 7 Cheshvan 8 Cheshvan 9 Cheshvan 10 Cheshvan 11 Cheshvan 8:30am Veterens’ Day Temple Office Closed 9:00am 6:00pm 7:00pm Services at Adat Ari El 12:30pm Mourners Kaddish 6 7 8 9 10 8:00pm 11 Recited 12 12 Cheshvan 13 Cheshvan 14 Cheshvan 15 Cheshvan 16 Cheshvan 17 Cheshvan 18 Cheshvan 8:30am Scholar in Residence: Ellen Allard 9:00am

4:00pm 12:30pm 13 14 15 16 17 6:30pm 18 19 19 Cheshvan 20 Cheshvan 21 Cheshvan 22 Cheshvan 23 Cheshvan 24 Cheshvan 25 Cheshvan 8:30am Thanksgiving Day Temple Office Closed Temple Office Closed

9:45am 12:30pm 11:00am 20 21 22 23 24 6:05pm 25 26 26 Cheshvan 27 Cheshvan 28 Cheshvan 29 Cheshvan

12:30pm

November•2016 27 28 29 30 Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info Torah Tuesday Caring Across Legend Generations Workshop

Adult B’nai Mitzvah Kislev•Tevet•5777 Shalom Hartman Institute Shabbat Services Tal Becker at Stephen S. Wise Temple Women of TBH Text Study TBH Book Club Chanukah Boutique The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, by Lucette Lagnado

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Kislev 2 Kislev 3 Kislev Rosh Chodesh

1 7:30pm 2 3 4 Kislev 5 Kislev 6 Kislev 7 Kislev 8 Kislev 9 Kislev 10 Kislev 8:30am 9:00am

10:00am 12:30pm 4 5 6 7 8 7:00pm 9 10 11 Kislev 12 Kislev 13 Kislev 14 Kislev 15 Kislev 16 Kislev 17 Kislev 8:30am 9:00am 7:00pm 12:30pm 12:30pm 4:00pm 11 12 13 14 15 7:30pm 16 17 18 Kislev 19 Kislev 20 Kislev 21 Kislev 22 Kislev 23 Kislev 24 Kislev

12:30pm 18 19 20 21 22 6:05pm 23 24 25 Kislev 26 Kislev 27 Kislev 28 Kislev 29 Kislev 1 Tevet 2 Tevet 1st Day of Chanukah 2nd Day of Chanukah 3rd Day of Chanukah 4th Day of Chanukah 5th Day of Chanukah 6th Day of Chanukah 7th Day of Chanukah Temple Office Closed Rosh Chodesh

7:30pm December•2016 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info TBH Book Club Who would have Legend Not in God’s Name, thunk it? by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Tevet•Sh’vat•5777 Torah Tuesday Text Study Shabbat Services

Adult B’nai Mitzvah Shalom Hartman Institute Micah Goodman at Valley Beth Shalom

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 Tevet 4 Tevet 5 Tevet 6 Tevet 7 Tevet 8 Tevet 9 Tevet 8th Day of Chanukah Temple Office Closed

12:30pm 1 2 3 4 5 7:30pm 6 7 10 Tevet 11 Tevet 12 Tevet 13 Tevet 14 Tevet 15 Tevet 16 Tevet 8:30am 9:00am

12:30pm 7:00pm 8 9 10 11 12 7:00pm 13 14 17 Tevet 18 Tevet 19 Tevet 20 Tevet 21 Tevet 22 Tevet 23 Tevet Martin Luther King Day 9:00am Temple Office Closed 12:30pm 15 16 17 18 19 7:30pm 20 21 24 Tevet 25 Tevet 26 Tevet 27 Tevet 28 Tevet 29 Tevet 1 Sh’vat 8:30am Rosh Chodesh 9:45am 12:30pm 4:00pm 22 23 24 25 26 6:05pm 27 28 2 Sh’vat 3 Sh’vat 4 Sh’vat 8:30am January•2017 9:45am 12:30pm 29 30 31

Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info Legend Adult B’nai Mitzvah Torah Tuesday Text Study-Special Tu BiSh’vat Sh’vat•Adar•5777 Gathering

Who would have TBH Book Club thunk it? Louis D. Brandeis: American Shabbat Services Prophet, by Jeffrey Rosen

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5 Sh’vat 6 Sh’vat 7 Sh’vat 8 Sh’vat

1 2 7:30pm 3 4 9 Sh’vat 10 Sh’vat 11 Sh’vat 12 Sh’vat 13 Sh’vat 14 Sh’vat 15 Sh’vat 8:30am Text Study at a special location 9:00am 9:45am 12:30pm 7:00pm 5 6 7 8 9 6:00pm 10 11 16 Sh’vat 17 Sh’vat 18 Sh’vat 19 Sh’vat 20 Sh’vat 21 Sh’vat 22 Sh’vat 8:30am

9:45am 12:30pm 12 13 14 15 16 7:30pm 17 18 23 Sh’vat 24 Sh’vat 25 Sh’vat 26 Sh’vat 27 Sh’vat 28 Sh’vat 29 Sh’vat Presidents Day Temple Office Closed 12:30pm 19 20 21 22 23 6:05pm 24 25 30 Sh’vat 1 Adar 2 Adar 8:30am Rosh Chodesh

February•2017 February•2017 9:45am 12:30pm 26 27 28 Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info Caring Across TBH Book Club Purim Carnival Legend Generations Workshop The Lost Wife, by Alyson Richman Adult B’nai Mitzvah Shalom Hartman Institute Text Study Liturgies of Love Adar•Nisan•5777 Elana Stein Hain at Westside Location

Who would have Torah Tuesday Purim Feast, Shpiel Shabbat Services thunk it? & Megillah Reading

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 Adar 4 Adar 5 Adar 6 Adar 9:30am

1 2 7:30pm 3 4 7 Adar 8 Adar 9 Adar 10 Adar 11 Adar 12 Adar 13 Adar Erev Purim 8:30am 9:00am 9:45am 7:00pm 12:30pm 12:30pm 6:00pm 4:00pm 5 6 7 8 9 7:00pm 10 11 14 Adar 15 Adar 16 Adar 17 Adar 18 Adar 19 Adar 20 Adar Purim Shushan Purim Daylight Savings Begins 9:00am 11:30am 12:30pm 12 13 14 15 16 7:30pm 17 18 21 Adar 22 Adar 23 Adar 24 Adar 25 Adar 26 Adar 27 Adar 8:30am

9:45am 12:30pm 19 20 21 22 23 6:05pm 24 25 28 Adar 29 Adar 1 Nisan 2 Nisan 3 Nisan 4 Nisan March•2017 8:30am Rosh Chodesh

9:45am 12:30pm 26 27 28 29 30 7:30pm 31 Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info Torah Tuesday Caring Across Legend Generations Workshop Adult B’nai Mitzvah Text Study

Shabbat Services Nisan•Iyyar•5777

Liturgies of Love Seder in the Desert XXXVIII

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5 Nisan

1 6 Nisan 7 Nisan 8 Nisan 9 Nisan 10 Nisan 11 Nisan 12 Nisan 8:30am 9:00am

9:45am 12:30pm 2 3 4 5 6 7:30pm 7 8 13 Nisan 14 Nisan 15 Nisan 16 Nisan 17 Nisan 18 Nisan 19 Nisan 8:30am Erev Pesach Pesach I Pesach II Pesach III Pesach IV Pesach V Temple Office Closes Temple Office Closed at Noon 7:00pm 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 20 Nisan 21 Nisan 22 Nisan 23 Nisan 24 Nisan 25 Nisan 26 Nisan Pesach VI Pesach VII Pesach VIII Temple Office Closed

16 17 18 19 20 7:30pm 21 22 April•2017 27 Nisan 28 Nisan 29 Nisan 30 Nisan 1 Iyyar 2 Iyyar 3 Iyyar Yom HaShoah Rosh Chodesh 8:30am 12:30pm 12:30pm 23 24 25 26 27 6:05pm 28 29 4 Iyyar 8:30am Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule 30 For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info Legend Adult B’nai Mitzvah Shabbat Services Torah Tuesday TBH Book Club

TBD Iyyar•Sivan•5777

TBH 70th Anniversary Text Study

Gala Gala

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5 Iyyar 6 Iyyar 7 Iyyar 8 Iyyar 9 Iyyar 10 Iyyar Yom HaZikaron Yom HaAtzma–ut

6:00pm 12:30pm 1 2 3 4 7:30pm 5 Gala 6 11 Iyyar 12 Iyyar 13 Iyyar 14 Iyyar 15 Iyyar 16 Iyyar 17 Iyyar 8:30am 9:00am

12:30pm 7:00pm 7 8 9 10 11 7:00pm 12 13 18 Iyyar 19 Iyyar 20 Iyyar 21 Iyyar 22 Iyyar 23 Iyyar 24 Iyyar Lag B’Omer 9:00am 12:30pm 14 15 16 17 18 7:00pm 19 20 25 Iyyar 26 Iyyar 27 Iyyar 28 Iyyar 29 Iyyar 1 Sivan 2 Sivan Rosh Chodesh

12:30pm 6:05pm May•2017 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 3 Sivan 4 Sivan 5 Sivan 6 Sivan Memorial Day Shavuot I Temple Office Closed Temple Office Closed 12:30pm 28 29 30 31 Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info Torah Tuesday Caring Across Legend Generations Workshop Sivan•Tamuz•5777 Guest Speaker, Shabbat Services TBH Book Club Rabbi Rick Jacobs My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Adult B’nai Mitzvah Text Study Family’s Nazi Past, by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 7 Sivan 8 Sivan 9 Sivan Shavuot II Temple Office Closed 7:30pm 1 2 3 10 Sivan 11 Sivan 12 Sivan 13 Sivan 14 Sivan 15 Sivan 16 Sivan 9:00am

12:30pm 4 5 6 7 8 7:00pm 9 10 17 Sivan 18 Sivan 19 Sivan 20 Sivan 21 Sivan 22 Sivan 23 Sivan 9:00am 7:00pm 12:30pm 12:30pm 11 12 13 14 15 7:30pm 16 17 24 Sivan 25 Sivan 26 Sivan 27 Sivan 28 Sivan 29 Sivan 30 Sivan

12:30pm 18 20 21 22 6:05pm 23 24 June•2017 19 1 Tamuz 2 Tamuz 3 Tamuz 4 Tamuz 5 Tamuz 6 Tamuz Rosh Chodesh

12:30pm 25 26 27 28 29 7:30pm 30 Check tbhla.org to confirm weekly schedule For tickets and to RSVP visit bethhillel.info

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