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.