Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach

Adult Education & Program Guide ______5781 2020-2021

From the Jerusalem 3000 windows that greet us as we walk into the Sanctuary, we bring you Shalom from Jerusalem to our homes and a furthuring of our education of Judaism and Israel.

190 NORTH COUNTY ROAD PALM BEACH, FL 33480 T 561-832-0804 | www.tepb.org Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach Adult Education 5781 Welcome! Welcome to Adult Education in the time of Coronavirus.

We have been trying to keep you both entertained and informed over the summer with various programs. So I hope that you have been able to download Zoom and be part of our burgeoning community.

In this brochure you will find a mix of entertainment and education, mostly on Wednesday nights. These lectures will be conducted on Zoom so please tune in. Some fan favorites are returning: Dr. Robert Rabil, Dr. Matt Levitt and Dr. Jodi Magness as well as Roger Ward. There are some new and exciting speakers well worth our time.

As we continue to be locked down, more speakers will be added from April onwards so keep an eye on your email and the Temple website.

Wednesday morning classes will be conducted via Zoom and we have changed it up a little with Rabbi Resnick teaching at 11am for the first semester. Enjoy, sample one or many.

Stay safe, wear your masks. Hopefully we will be able to see each other again in person by Pesach.

B’Shalom In This Issue: Vivienne Ivry Adult Education Chair Cinema Emanu-El 3, 4

Sunday Speaker 4 Shabbat Speakers 5 Wednesday Night Live 6, 7 Speakers Adult Education Classes 8, 9 & Faculty Rabbi’s Round Table & 10, 11 Cultural Arts Class Schedule 11

2 Cinema Emanu-El Chairs: Hana Siegelstein & David Ginsberg Award-winning feature length films are selected to explore issues pertaining to Jewish life and thought. Via Online Streaming at 7:00PM (subject to change) Followed by a Discussion on Zoom (details to follow)

All are welcome. No charge.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Wednesday, February 24, 2021 NORA’S WILL FELIX AND MEIRA Despite their divorce, José Kurtz A young married woman finds freedom (Fernando Luján) and his ex-wife, Nora from the Orthodox Jewish community (Silvia Mariscal), never stopped caring for through a relationship with a young one another. So it's no surprise that, man mourning his father's death. when she commits suicide, José is charged with overseeing her funeral. Set among Mexico City's Jewish community, this comedy focuses on the complications involved with organizing a memorial while others are preoccupied with Passover. Also complicating matters are José's status as a Wednesday, March 10, 2021 nonbeliever and the unexpected contents of Nora's will. RED TENT In his apartment in Rome in the 1960s, the elderly and guilt-stricken Gen. Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch) recalls FILL THE VOID the tragic airship expedition he led to the Arctic 40 years earlier and the After a young Hasidic woman dies in equally catastrophic rescue effort that childbirth, her 18-year-old sister (Hadas followed. The story is told through Yaron) is asked to cancel her upcoming flashbacks to the original voyage and a marriage to a promising young man and present-day trial of Nobile by the angry ghosts of the men marry her widowed brother-in-law who died in the debacle, including the stern specter of the (Yiftach Klein) instead. legendary explorer Roald Amundsen (Sean Connery).

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 CONSPIRACY Wednesday, April 14, 2021 In January 1942, as the United States RASHEVSKIE’S TANGO enters World War II, a conference Members of an integrated Jewish assembles near Berlin. SS Gen. Heydrich family gather for a funeral and realize (Kenneth Branagh) and his associate, Lt. love conquers all but death. Eichmann (Stanley Tucci) call the meeting to discuss the "evacuation" of Germany's Jews and other undesirables, a code word for their extermination in concentration camps. To begin this Final Solution, they must change the mind of a small group of men opposed to the idea, led by Chancellor Kritzinger (David Threlfall).

3 Cinema Emanu-El Summer Movies SHABBAT SPEAKERS Chairs: Hana Siegelstein & David Ginsberg Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 9:15AM via Zoom (unless circumstances change) Award-winning feature length films are selected to explore issues pertaining to Jewish life and thought. Dr. Ori Z. Soltes Via Online Streaming at 1:00PM (subject to change) “Searching for Oneness with the One: Mysticism in the Abrahamic Traditions” Followed by a Discussion on Zoom (details to follow) All are welcome. No charge. This brief talk will consider a few fundamental questions: What is mysticism and how does it differ from everyday religion? What are some of the elements that tie Jewish, Christian and Muslim mysticism together and how do they differ from each other? Are there mystics today, in our secularized world? Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith WOMEN’S LEAGUE SELECTION Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He is also the author of over 280 books, articles, exhibition catalogues, and essays on diverse topics. Among his books are The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Holocaust; Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Searching for Oneness: Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Untangling the Web: Why the LA PETITE JERUSALEM Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been; Jews on Trial: from Jesus to Jonathan Pollard; Tradition and Laura (Fanny Valette), a young philosophy student, lives with her immigrant family in a Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture; and most recently, Magic and Religion in Jewish enclave in Paris, and is beginning to question the strict dictates of her religion. the Greco-Roman World: The Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity. She feels bad for her sister Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein), who is married to a philanderer and believes Judaism compels her to stay with him. When Laura meets an attractive Muslim named Djamel (Hedi Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre), her sexual Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 9:15AM desire erodes her commitment to her faith even more. Dr. Robert Rabil “How Covid-19 is Affecting the Political Balance in the Middle East” Dr. Robert Rabil received his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Massachusetts College of Wednesday, July, 2021 (date to be announced) Liberal Arts, his Masters on Government from Harvard University Extension School and his Ph.D. in JOJO RABBIT Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. His area of research includes Political Islam, Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl Terrorism, Transnational and Revivalist Movements, U.S.-Arab Relations, Arab-Israeli Conflict, reform in the Arab world, and Contemporary Middle Eastern and Southern Politics. in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend -- Adolf Hitler -- Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on. Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7:00PM & Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 9:15AM (*will not be Zoomed, in person only if circumstances permit) Wednesday, August, 2021 (date to be announced) Hazzan Dr. Ramon Tasat THE FLAT Friday - “Music of the Past in Liturgy” Cleaning out an apartment leads to unexpected discoveries and repressed family Saturday - “Hallel ve Zimrah: Religious Poems for Shabbat from Around the World” emotions coming to the surface. Hazzan Dr. Ramón Tasat is the Cantor of Shirat HaNefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD. He is also the president of Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. In addition, he is the musical Director of Kolot HaLev, a Jewish Community choir in the Greater Washington area. Born in Buenos Aires, Ramón learned Ladino, the language of the Sephardic people, at his grandmother’s knee; his style reflects the rich history and drama of this extraordinary culture. Trained in five different countries, he received a doctorate in voice performance from the University of Texas at Austin. His doctoral dissertation is entitled “The SUNDAY SPEAKER Cantillations and Religious Poems of the Jews of Tangier, Morocco.”

Sunday, December 13 Friday, April 10, 2021 at 9:15AM 10:00AM via Zoom Randi Posner Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz “Next Generation in Commemoration of Yom HaShoa - Holocaust Memorial Day” Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Randi Posner is the President of Next Generation. Next Generation’s hope is that through knowledge, Meet the newly appointed eighth chancellor of JTS on a Zoom call for Temple Emanu-El they will raise awareness of the realities of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Next Generation seeks to of Palm Beach members. inspire all children by shining a light on the courage of the survivors and the selfless acts of righteous people who put themselves in danger by helping Jews. Mrs. Posner is from Boynton Beach and has been Shuly Rubin Schwartz, a groundbreaking scholar of American Jewish history and a visionary president since April of 2018. Randi Posner taught Holocaust studies at a middle school in Blackwood, institutional leader, is the eighth chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. As dean of two New Jersey for 25 years. The school was one of the first New Jersey State Holocaust teaching sites. schools and most recently as provost, she has shaped and strengthened JTS’s academic programs Mrs. Posner is especially passionate about helping Holocaust survivors, many who are frail and in their while teaching and mentoring countless students. She is the first woman to serve as chancellor of JTS 90s, live the rest of their lives with dignity. in its 134-year history. 4 5 SHABBAT SPEAKERS Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 9:15AM via Zoom (unless circumstances change) Dr. Ori Z. Soltes “Searching for Oneness with the One: Mysticism in the Abrahamic Traditions” This brief talk will consider a few fundamental questions: What is mysticism and how does it differ from everyday religion? What are some of the elements that tie Jewish, Christian and Muslim mysticism together and how do they differ from each other? Are there mystics today, in our secularized world? Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He is also the author of over 280 books, articles, exhibition catalogues, and essays on diverse topics. Among his books are The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Searching for Oneness: Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Untangling the Web: Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been; Jews on Trial: from Jesus to Jonathan Pollard; Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture; and most recently, Magic and Religion in the Greco-Roman World: The Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity.

Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 9:15AM Dr. Robert Rabil “How Covid-19 is Affecting the Political Balance in the Middle East” Dr. Robert Rabil received his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, his Masters on Government from Harvard University Extension School and his Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. His area of research includes Political Islam, Terrorism, Transnational and Revivalist Movements, U.S.-Arab Relations, Arab-Israeli Conflict, reform in the Arab world, and Contemporary Middle Eastern and Southern Politics.

Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7:00PM & Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 9:15AM (*will not be Zoomed, in person only if circumstances permit) Hazzan Dr. Ramon Tasat Friday - “Music of the Past in Liturgy” Saturday - “Hallel ve Zimrah: Religious Poems for Shabbat from Around the World”

Hazzan Dr. Ramón Tasat is the Cantor of Shirat HaNefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD. He is also the president of Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music. In addition, he is the musical Director of Kolot HaLev, a Jewish Community choir in the Greater Washington area. Born in Buenos Aires, Ramón learned Ladino, the language of the Sephardic people, at his grandmother’s knee; his style reflects the rich history and drama of this extraordinary culture. Trained in five different countries, he received a doctorate in voice performance from the University of Texas at Austin. His doctoral dissertation is entitled “The Cantillations and Religious Poems of the Jews of Tangier, Morocco.”

Friday, April 10, 2021 at 9:15AM Randi Posner “Next Generation in Commemoration of Yom HaShoa - Holocaust Memorial Day”

Randi Posner is the President of Next Generation. Next Generation’s hope is that through knowledge, they will raise awareness of the realities of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Next Generation seeks to inspire all children by shining a light on the courage of the survivors and the selfless acts of righteous people who put themselves in danger by helping Jews. Mrs. Posner is from Boynton Beach and has been president since April of 2018. Randi Posner taught Holocaust studies at a middle school in Blackwood, New Jersey for 25 years. The school was one of the first New Jersey State Holocaust teaching sites. Mrs. Posner is especially passionate about helping Holocaust survivors, many who are frail and in their 90s, live the rest of their lives with dignity.

5 WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE! Wednesday, October 21, 2020 7:00PM via Zoom “Masada” An Evening with Dr. Jodi Magness Jodi Magness holds a senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism since 2002. She is an archaeologist and the President of the Archaeological Institute of America. Professor Magness specializes in the archaeology of ancient Palestine (modern Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories) in the Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods. Her research interests include Jerusalem, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient synagogues, Masada, the Roman army in the East, and ancient pottery. November 11, 2020 7:00PM via Zoom "Culture as Victim: The Fate of L'viv and Dresden in World War II" An Evening with Dr. Roger Ward Dr. Roger Ward is widely acknowledged as an expert in the field of Nazi-era provenance research and the world’s leading authority on the drawings of Baccio Bandinelli. From July 2011 through March 2013, he was a consultant to the Department of Homeland Security on the restitution of artworks looted during the Nazi era in Europe. Dr. Ward was the President and CEO of the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens and has served as curator and director of a variety of art museums domestically and abroad. He sits on the board of the American Friends of the Courtauld Institute of Art and is a member of numerous professional, academic, and civic organizations in the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 7:00PM via Zoom “Iran in a Post-Pandemic World” An Evening with Dr. Michael Rubin Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches Arab politics, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Iran, Iraq, the Kurds, terrorism, and Turkey. He concurrently teaches classes on terrorism for the FBI and on security, politics, religion, and history for US and NATO military units. A former Pentagon official, Dr. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, and both pre- and postwar Iraq, and he spent time with the Taliban before 9/11.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:00PM via Zoom “The Book of Lost Names” An Evening with Kristin Harmel* Kristin Harmel is the #1 international bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, The Room on Rue Amelie, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into numerous languages and sold all over the world. A former reporter for PEOPLE magazine, Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. After stints covering health and lifestyle for American Baby, Men’s Health, and Woman’s Day, she became a reporter for PEOPLE while still in college and spent more than a decade working for the publication. Her favorite stories at PEOPLE, however, were the “Heroes Among Us” features—tales of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. One of those features—the story of Holocaust-survivor-turned-philanthropist Henri Landwirth. Kristin Harmel returns this summer with another surefire hit, The Book of Lost Names, which takes readers to the heart of World War II France—and the heart of the French Resistance—where a Parisian graduate student fleeing the Nazis stumbles upon a forgery ring and realizes that she has the means to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish children. *Books are available at the Classic Bookshop for purchase 6 WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE!

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE! 7:00PM Via Zoom “The Tehran Children: Rediscovering Iran’s Role in a Holocaust Rescue ” An Evening with Mikhal Dekel* Mikhal Dekel teaches Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and the City College of New York, where she is also Director of the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation and the Lady Davis Foundation, among others. In addition to Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, she is the author of The Universal Jew: Modernity, Masculinity and the Zionist Moment and the Hebrew monograph Oedipus in Kishinev. Tehran Children was named finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the Chautauqua Institution Prize. It was reviewed and featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, C-Span, Journal of Foreign Policy, the NY Daily News, and the BBC, among other venues. *Books are available at the Classic Bookshop for purchase

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:00PM

“Hezbollah in South America” An Evening with Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi* Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at FDD and an expert at FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) focused on Hezbollah’s Latin America illicit threat networks and Iran’s history of sanctions evasion. His research has examined Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its links to the country’s energy sector and procurement networks. His areas of expertise also include the EU’s Middle East policymaking, transatlantic relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Israel’s domestic politics. Prior to joining FDD, Emanuele headed the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels and taught Israel Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

He is author of The Pasdaran: Inside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran: The Looming Crisis, and Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb. Emanuele blogs at The Hill. His columns have also appeared in leading outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and London’s The Sunday Times. He obtained his PhD in political theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, preceded by undergraduate studies in political science at the University of Bologna. *Books are available at the Classic Bookshop for purchase

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:00PM

“Hezbollah in Israel & Europe” An Evening with Dr. Matthew Levitt Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, one of sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies coordinated under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. During his tenure at Treasury, Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. In 2008-2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security (SEMERS), General James L. Jones. Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:00PM

“The Debates which Define Islam: The Roots of both Extremism and Reformism” 7 An Evening with Michael Rubin ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES & DESCRIPTIONS

10:00AM-11:00AM Rabbi Mark Staitman, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security Rabbi Mark Staitman is well known in the Pittsburgh Jewish Community and in the Soviet Jewry advocacy movement. Rabbi Staitman served the Rodef Shalem congregation as Rabbi until 2003. Rabbi Staitman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and he maintains a small private therapeutic practice which specializes in therapy for clergy who suffer from the effects of trauma.

December 2, 9 & 16, 2020 Winter Class - Bible, the Talmud and the contemporary movements. How do we understand rituals during a crisis? Abraham, generally thought of as the first Monotheist, is the first of our Patriarchs. We refer to him as Avraham Avinu, Abraham our Father. The way Abraham is understood in the Torah is different from the way he is understood by the Rabbinic Texts and Rabbinic Philosophers. For this class we will step away from the text of the Torah and look at the Midrash and Jewish Philosophic texts to see how the traditional scholars understood Abraham. We will ask difficult questions about our Patriarch. Was he a great man? Was he honest? Was he an ethical man? Was he a good husband? Was he a good father? Was he a model for us today?

February 10, 17, 24 & March 3 &10, 2020 Spring Class - How has the coronavirus changed life for us as individuals and as a community? Jewish history recounts many instances of plagues, wars, suffering, pogroms and of course, the Holocaust. A people who has suffered as we have and still survived must have some knowledge of how we survive and recover from tragedy. We will look at Traditional Jewish texts, Modern Jewish texts and the record of those who suffered to see the lessons which can help us to endure and recover from the latest of our plagues, Covid-19.

10:00AM-11:00AM Rabbi David Blumenfeld, Ph.D January 6, 13, 20 , 27 & February 3, 2021 "The Wide World of Jewish Mysticism” Rabbi David L. Blumenfeld, Ph.D. was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is a graduate of Brandeis University, and studied Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. degree from New York University and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree, Honoris Causa, from JTS. He taught courses on the subject of Jewish Mysticism at Long Island University. Rabbi Blumenfeld served as spiritual leader of Congregation Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove, N.Y. Afterwards, he served with distinction as the Founding Executive Director of the New York Holocaust Memorial Commission that created the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park (N.Y.C.).

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 “Mysticism’s Strong Influence in the Tanach” The realm of the mystical experience is shared worldwide and is reflected in a number of places in the Bible. It is the basis of later Jewish exegesis and practice on the assumption that the Torah contains a secret knowledge of the world that surrounds us. Does Jewish mysticism speak to us today? Does it apply to the human condition that exists in the 21st century? Discussion. All are welcome.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 “Jewish Mysticism as Found in the Talmud” “Four men entered the ’Pardes’ (a mysterious orchard). They were Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher and Rabbi Akiva. Ben Azzai looked and died; Ben Zoma looked and went mad; Acher destroyed the plants; Akiva entered in peace and departed in peace.” (Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah14b). From the above we learn that the study of mysticism was deemed as being somewhat dangerous. No problem though. “Have no fear – Rabbi Blumenfeld is here!” All welcome. 8 ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES & DESCRIPTIONS Wednesday, January 20, 2021 “Messianism” Many world religions express a hope in a future when a mysterious heroic figure will rescue the righteous, judge and defeat the 10:00AM-11:00AM wicked, and bring about a universal peace. Hinduism Krishna; Buddhism Maitreya; Islam Mahdi; Christianity Jesus. We will focus on Judaism’s belief in the Mashiach. What in our religion motivates such a powerful belief? Is it still relevant to us today? Discussion. Rabbi Mark Staitman, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security “Kabbalah and The Zohar” Rabbi Mark Staitman is well known in the Pittsburgh Jewish Community and in the Soviet Jewry Kabbalah is the most prominent form of Jewish mysticism. Its teachings and practice took hold in Spain during the 13th century advocacy movement. Rabbi Staitman served the Rodef Shalem congregation as Rabbi until 2003. with the appearance of a written work called the Zohar. Its focus is a description of the divine world as it affects our world and Rabbi Staitman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and he maintains a small private therapeutic our own existence. In contemporary times, Kabbalah has become popularized. Why this sudden interest? How real is it? practice which specializes in therapy for clergy who suffer from the effects of trauma. Wednesday, February 3, 2021 December 2, 9 & 16, 2020 “The Rise of Hasidism and Its Practice Today” Winter Class - Bible, the Talmud and the contemporary movements. How do we understand rituals during a Hasidic Judaism was a spiritual revivalist movement that emerged in Eastern Europe in the 18th century. Followers of Hasidic crisis? Judaism today (known as Hasidim, or “pious ones”) draw heavily on the Jewish mystical tradition in seeking a direct experience of Abraham, generally thought of as the first Monotheist, is the first of our Patriarchs. We refer to him as Avraham Avinu, God through ecstatic prayer and other rituals that are uniquely theirs. Abraham our Father. The way Abraham is understood in the Torah is different from the way he is understood by the Rabbinic Texts and Rabbinic Philosophers. For this class we will step away from the text of the Torah and look at the Midrash and Jewish Philosophic texts to see how the traditional scholars understood Abraham. We will ask difficult questions about our Patriarch. Was he a great man? Was he honest? Was he an ethical man? Was he a good husband? 11:00AM-12:00PM Was he a good father? Was he a model for us today? Dr. Haviva Langenauer February 10, 17, 24 & March 3 &10, 2020 Spring Class - How has the coronavirus changed life for us as individuals and as a community? January 6, 13, 20, 27 & February 3, 10, 17, 24 & March 3 &10, 2021 Jewish history recounts many instances of plagues, wars, suffering, pogroms and of course, the Holocaust. A people who "King David, his wives and children” has suffered as we have and still survived must have some knowledge of how we survive and recover from tragedy. We The Many Faces of King David will look at Traditional Jewish texts, Modern Jewish texts and the record of those who suffered to see the lessons which King David is difficult to understand. A shepherd boy annointed as king, remarkable poet, warrior, can help us to endure and recover from the latest of our plagues, Covid-19. husband, father, and suddenly sinner, adulterer, murderer, he repents and yet suffers the most tragic family life. Goliath, Jonathan, Saul, Bathsheba, Nathan, Samuel, Absalom, Michal are some of the 10:00AM-11:00AM characters in David's life. The story of David has been called one of the greatest single narratives of antiquity. Join this discussion and discover why the Jewish people love King David so much. Rabbi David Blumenfeld, Ph.D January 6, 13, 20 , 27 & February 3, 2021 Dr. Haviva Langenauer earned her B.A. from Brooklyn College, A Bachelor of Religious Education from the Jewish Theological "The Wide World of Jewish Mysticism” Seminary, and advanced degrees in science, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Langenauer is a dedicated member of Temple Emanu-El where she innovated numerous programs, including the Veterans History Project, and Treasures of the Rabbi David L. Blumenfeld, Ph.D. was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is a graduate of Temple, a study of the Temple’s stained glass windows and Judaica. Brandeis University, and studied Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. degree from New York University and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree, Honoris Causa, from JTS. He taught courses on the subject of Jewish Mysticism at Long Island University. Rabbi Blumenfeld served as spiritual leader of Congregation Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove, N.Y. Afterwards, he served with distinction as the Founding Executive Director of the New York Holocaust Memorial Commission that created the Museum of Jewish Heritage Are you interested in learning to in Battery Park (N.Y.C.). Read Hebrew Wednesday, January 6, 2021 in only 6 short weeks? “Mysticism’s Strong Influence in the Tanach” The realm of the mystical experience is shared worldwide and is reflected in a number of places in the Bible. It is the basis of later Temple Emanu-El is offering a crash course that will enable Jewish exegesis and practice on the assumption that the Torah contains a secret knowledge of the world that surrounds us. Does you to master reading skills so you can follow along with our Jewish mysticism speak to us today? Does it apply to the human condition that exists in the 21st century? Discussion. All are services and Torah readings in Hebrew. Classes will run for welcome. 6 consecutive Thursday nights at 7pm and will be taught by Renee Seal who holds a Bachelor's Degree in Jewish Wednesday, January 13, 2021 Education from McGill University and The Hebrew “Jewish Mysticism as Found in the Talmud” University of Jerusalem. “Four men entered the ’Pardes’ (a mysterious orchard). They were Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher and Rabbi Akiva. Ben Azzai looked and died; Ben Zoma looked and went mad; Acher destroyed the plants; Akiva entered in peace and departed in peace.” (Babylonian Please contact the synagogue's office if you are interested. Talmud, Hagigah14b). From the above we learn that the study of mysticism was deemed as being somewhat dangerous. No problem Specific dates will be announced shortly. though. “Have no fear – Rabbi Blumenfeld is here!” All welcome. 9 8 Rabbi’s Round Table Torah Study

Mondays & Wednesdays 11am via Zoom Now through December 16th

Please join Rabbi Michael Resnick as he continues the Zoom Torah Study about Genesis.

For Zoom information, check emails or call the Temple office at 561.832.0804

TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEACH TEMPLE EMANU-EL OF PALM BEACH CULTURAL ARTS Cultural Arts Series Sunday, January 10, 2021 SERIES 3pm Movie Defiant Requiem Showing followed by discussion with Murry Sidlin

Murry Sidlin is President and Creative Director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation and creator of the concert-dramas Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer, and the play Mass Appeal, 1943. He began developing the film Defiant Requiem in 2006 to share the legacy of Terezín and its unique message of courage and hope during the Holocaust.

Defiant Requiem Defiant Requiem is a feature-lengthDefiant Requium documentary film that tells the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by Jewish prisoners at Theresienstadt (Terezin) during World War II. The Film highlights a dramatic example of intellectural and artistic courage: the remarkable story of Rafael Schachter, a brilliant young Czech conductor who demonstrated moral leadership under brutal circumstances by sustaining hope and courage for his fellow prisoners by creating a prisoner choir and “singing to the Nazis what they dared not say.” This is a film about how a rare form of courage sparked compelling determination to survive by answering the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. Defiant Requiem was nominated for two Documentary Emmy Awards in 2014 for best writing and best feature length documentary. The film is the recipient of numerous awards and has been broadcast on PBS, BBC4, French TV and Globostat in Brazil.

10 ADULT EDUCATION & PROGRAM GUIDE 5781 / 2020-2021 GUEST SPEAKERS SCHEDULE (see pages 4-5) Sunday Speaker, December 13 Friday, February 20, 2021 Saturday, April 10, 2021 10am 9:15am 9:15am Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz Dr. Robert Rabil Randi Posner Jewish Theological Seminary SHABBAT SPEAKERS Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7pm & Saturday, January 16, 2021 Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 9:15am 9:15am Hazzan Dr. Robert Tasat Dr. Ori Z. Soltes

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 7pm (see pages 6-7) WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE SPEAKERS SERIES Kristin Harmel Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 7pm Dr. Jodi Magness Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 7pm Mikhal Dekel Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 7pm Dr. Roger Ward Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 7pm Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 7pm Dr. Michael Rubin Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 7pm Dr. Matthew Levitt

WEDNESDAY ADULT EDUCATION CLASS SCHEDULE (see pages 8-9) December 2, 2020 January 20, 2021 February 24, 2021 10am Rabbi Mark Staitman 10am Rabbi David L. Blumenfeld 10am Rabbi Mark Staitman 11am Rabbi Michael Resnick 11am Haviva Langenauer P.h.D. 11am Haviva Langenauer P.h.D.

December 9, 2020 January 27, 2021 March 3, 2021 10am Rabbi Mark Staitman 10am Rabbi David L. Blumenfeld 10am Rabbi Mark Staitman 11am Rabbi Michael Resnick 11am Haviva Langenauer P.h.D. 11am Haviva Langenauer P.h.D.

December 16, 2020 February 3, 2021 March 10, 2021 10am Rabbi Mark Staitman 10am Rabbi David L. Blumenfeld 10am Rabbi Mark Staitman 11am Rabbi Michael Resnick 11am Haviva Langenauer P.h.D. 11am Haviva Langenauer P.h.D.

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