BETH JACOB ATLANTA CONTINUING ADULT EDUCATION 2012-2013 / 5772-5773 Schedule of Classes What’s Inside: 5 Building Blocks continue with Rabbi Ilan and Rebbetzin Miriam Feldman Sefarim B’Shana, The Great Jewish Books Course - 12 An exciting follow up to the Tanach B’Shana course! Celebrating our 25 year New Parenting classes with Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich partnership with 14 Three full pages of Kollel programming including Bena, 15 Yesodai Hatorah and a new Beis Midrash program Youth Programming: From preschoolers to teenagers, there is 20 something for everyone What you are holding in your hands appears to be an adult education brochure, but is actually much more than that. It is the pulse, heartbeat, and blood stream of the vibrant Contacts community that has developed around Beth Jacob. It provides evidence that ours is a LEVI AFRAH , REALTOR® community with a ravenous appetite for that which has sustained the Jewish people Beth Jacob Atlanta throughout its history: the study of Torah as the word of G-d and its application to all 1855 Lavista Road Pinnacle Award Life Member circumstances of our lives. Atlanta, GA 30329 404-633-0551 In 5773, Beth Jacob marks its 50th year at its Lavista Road location. When the synagogue fax 404-320-7912 was dedicated on December 12, 1962, not even the most visionary could have imagined www.bethjacobatlanta.org R E A L T Y the kind of community that would develop around it. Ours is a community which P R E M I E R has come to be known for its passion, its commitment, its focus on upward spiritual Ilan D. Feldman, Rabbi One of the top producing agents at Chapman Hall Realty Premier. movement, and its warmth. In other words, when one observes our community, it is [email protected] evident that it is centered on the word of G-d as its source. For a community’s behavior ext. 224, or 678-244-6640 More than 4 years of full-time real estate experience successfully in all its aspects to reflect a conscious awareness of its connection to G-d is the essence representing Buyers, Sellers, Landlords, Tenants and Investors. of Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of G-d). This is certainly reason for celebration. Yechezkel Freundlich, Associate Rabbi [email protected] Award-winning member of the Dekalb Association of Realtors. In this brochure, evidence abounds about the nature of the community of which Beth Jacob is the center. Our partnership with the Atlanta Scholars Kollel – including having ext. 243, or 678-244-6646 their House of Torah Study – a Bais Hamedrash – physically connected to our facility, as well as our joint focusing on the Torah study needs of our community’s population – Harvey Steele, Executive Director reminds us of the awareness our community has that the study of Torah is our life-giving [email protected] potion, speaking to every Jew specifically about his life – now. Having these rabbis as our ext. 238, or 678-244-6644 teachers ennobles our community. Mindy Tanenbaum, Preschool Director The Sefarim B’shana program, inspired by last year’s spectacularly popular and [email protected] successful survey of the entire Torah, Prophets, and Writings in the Tanach B’shana ext. 241, or 678-244-6649 course, makes available for the first time a systematic exposure to the vast riches of our heritage by examining seminal Torah works of the last 2000 years. It is our hope that Sybil Goldstein, Event Coordinator participants in this program will experience a dramatic shift in their appreciation of [email protected] major Torah compilations, which are themselves a reflection of our people’s passionate ext. 225, or 678-244-6642 love affair with G-d’s word. This course is a reflection of our community’s assertion that Torah belongs to all, and that we are responsible to make it accessible to all. Sandra Kaplan, Member Services The Building Blocks Of Community program, which began last year and continues this [email protected] year, is timed to coincide with our Jubilee celebration. It is meant to provide, in addition ext. 227, or 678-244-6672 to our appreciation of past accomplishments, an inspired vision for what we can become in the future. It is designed to help us take responsibility for what G-d has allowed us Gail Silverman, Accounting to achieve. We have arrived at a significant level of maturity and sophistication; what [email protected] is next is for us to launch ourselves, as a community, into a leadership role joyously ext 229, or 678-244-6655 demonstrating the unlimited potential of a community mindfully calibrating its thinking and behavior to reflect our intimate connection to G-d. As you participate in this Gail Vexler, Rabbis’ Secretary program during the course of the year, you will discover new potential within yourself [email protected] while contributing to the building of a community which is a loving, joyous habitat for ext. 222, or 678-244-6643 the Divine Presence. Karly Yaschik, Communications Coordinator Let the New Year of Jewish education begin. May we succeed in honoring the Torah we [email protected] study by reflecting it in our actions everywhere in life. ext. 233, or 678-244-6665 Rabbi Ilan D. Feldman Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Feldman, Rabbi Emeritus [email protected] Contents Beth Jacob Year at a Glance ....................................................................................................... 4 Florence & Seymour Gerson Mikvah Building Blocks of Community ................................................................................. 5 404-728-0441 Weekly Classes ..................................................................................................... 6-8 Scholars-in-Residence .............................................................................................. 9 Atlanta Scholars Kollel Elul & Holiday Classes....................................................................................... 10-11 404-321-4085 Beth Jacob Women of Valor Sefarim B’Shana Program ....................................... 12-13 Parenting with Rabbi Y ........................................................................................... 14 Atlanta Kashruth Commission Atlanta Scholars Kollel Programs ....................................................................... 15-17 404-634-4063 Eretz Yisrael Programming ................................................................................. 18-19 Youth Programming .......................................................................................... 20-21 Community Events................................................................................................. 22 3 Rabbi Ilan and Miriam Feldman Present: Year at a Glance Building Blocks of Community Spiritual Renovation As We Celebrate Our Community’s Jubilee 2012 2013 Building Blocks of Community is a program like no other. The goal of the program is for an entire community to be engaged in a September 4 BENA Rosh Chodesh Elul Class January 19 Israel Film Festival - Part 1 meaningful and practical discussion of the key values and principles that define a thriving Orthodox community. Its purpose is to allow our September 8 Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Ari Kahn January 26 Tu B’Shevat community to move forward with clarity to develop itself along values that are sourced in Torah, applicable in daily living, and are a model September 10 ASK Networking Event February 2 Scholar-in-Residence: Charles Harary for a Jewish community. It is intended to create a community whose very being is a source of inspiration to all who know it. In short, it September 13 Unlocking the Machzor - Rosh Hashana February 17 Purim Parade strives to guarantee that ours can be a community that is an inspired, joyous, growth-oriented Habitat for the Shechina (Divine Presence). September 15 BENA Pre-Rosh Hashana Womens Get-together February 19 “Dress Up is Not Just For Kids” September 16 Rosh Hashana Begins (at sunset) Launched last year in anticipation of Beth Jacob’s Jubilee celebration, Building Blocks of Community is an initiative designed by Rabbi February 21 Ta’anis Esther September 19 Fast of Gedaliah Ilan and Miriam Feldman to provide spiritual “renovation and refurbishment” for our community. Building Blocks is a framework to February 24 Purim September 20 R’ Frand Annual Teshuva Broadcast describe a vision, or blueprint for growth in the years ahead, as we celebrate the growth of a community around Beth Jacob. February 24 Girls’ Purim Party and Art Project September 22 R’ Feldman Shabbos Shuva Drasha Eight blocks have been identified which cover key aspects of Jewish life. Each will be focused on for a period of weeks; blocks that were September 23 Unlocking the Machzor - Yom Kippur March 3 ASK Jewish Unity Live introduced last year will be broadened and expanded. We will have a chance to examine basic assumptions of Jewish life, develop September 25 Yom Kippur (begins at sunset) March 12 Getting your Kitchen Ready for Pesach ourselves in those areas, and practice newly gained insights so that they actually make a difference in our daily lives. Sermons, classes, September 27 ASK Lulav & Esrog Pickup March 16 Scholar-in-Residence: Rabbi Dovid Katz internet-based messages, exercises, surveys, guest presentations from national and international teachers, on line discussions, and September 30 Sukkos Begins (at sunset) March 23 Rabbi Feldman’s Shabbos Hagadol Drasha reading and resource lists: all these will be used to further and guide the discussion.